The Latin slogan is translated as Never Unprepared.  Another form of it is Ready, Aye Ready or even just Aye Ready. Note that the Scots word Aye here means Always. The crest is a winged spur, a heraldic reminder of the service  given to King Robert the Bruce by the Johnstone chief.  The five points on the coronet indicate the rank of an Earl.   C.J.

The Earldom lay dormant from 1792, but in 1983, after a lapse of nearly two hundred years, the Lord Lyon King of Arms officially recognised Major Percy Wentworth Hope Johnstone of Annandale and of that Ilk, hereditary Keeper of Lochmaben Castle and a descendant of the daughter of the first Marquis of Annandale, as Chief of Clan Johnstone.

Upon Major Hope Johnstone's death later that year, his son Patrick Andrew Wentworth Hope Johnstone succeeded as twenty-sixth Chief of the Name and Arms of JOHNSTONE.

In 1985 the Chief's claim to the long-dormant Earldom of Annandale and Hartfell was recognised by the House of Lords. The Earl and Countess now reside at Annanbank Farm, while their son and daughter-in-law, Lord and Lady Johnstone, reside in the family mansion at Raehills.

(L.to R.) The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Annandale & Hartfell and his son, Lord David Johnstone, with our Clan Association Piper, John 'Jocky' Johnstone at the Clan Commissioner's home on the occasion of the first AGM.

This picture shows the fanily seat, RAEHILLS, near St.Ann's in Dumfriesshire.