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My dear friend , I hate to be the one to pull some of the wind from your sail as you have really put a poetic touch to the evaluation of the Macfie coat of arms. However to be a bit more truthfull, there is none of what you have stated that can be associated with the shield itself. In 1864 one Robert Macfie who had been born in the family home at Langhouse, Inverkip, Scotland, a country mansion which had been constructed for the Campbell family, purchased by his grandfather Macfie and castleized by his father, decided that as a wealthy middleclass gentleman THAT he should procure a Coat of Arms . As he had visited Colonsay, and knew some of the history of the Clans he requested that certain symbols that he had seen on the grave stones on Colonsay be incorporated into his personal arms . Thus the Sword, and the galley . As to the PRO REGE well from what I have read of the family records, this MOTTO was chosen from a set of books shown to a family member some time before 1864 and had been chosen to be used as a seal for thier correspondence. NOW the most common of the Macfie crests used today are usually identified as - of Dreghorn -
and the Macfie of Dreghorn Arms were granted in 1867 to Robert Andrew Macfie of Leith, who had by that time purchased the Dreghorn Estate from the Trottier family and his arms were grated with of course the bearing on his cousin's Macfie arms which were the first granted by the Lord Lyon of Scotland..... So some of your mystic may be more imagination than you desire to acknowledge, BUT the Macfie arms are more of a modern day desire of a rich gentleman attempting to create himself a place among the more affluent of that particular time.
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