In Scotland, the first of the name was Warnebald or his son, Robertus, who received a grant for the land of Cunningham between 1160 and 1180. There is a story that states that Malcolm who was the son of Friskin, obtained the lands from Malcolm III of Scotland after he had sheltered him under hay in a barn and this is said to have given rise to the family's coat of arms which is of a shake-fork, as well as the motto "Over fork over". Sir George Mackenzie states that the coat of arms allude to the office of Master of the King's Stables. However, these stories do not take into account that the earliest form of the clan's coat of arm was actually a Bishop Pall Y, which differs from the later Shakefork Y by permitting the Y to touch the edge of the shield. The Bishop Pall Y was used by the early Earls of Glencairn, and by the Cunninghams of Barns. This argues against the theory that the Cunninghams were great allies of the Clan Comyn, whose shield bore sheaves of corn and that when the great Comyn dynasty was overthrown by the Clan Bruce, and the Cunninghams subsequently adopted the shake-fork that was used to "fork over" sheaves of corn as a reference to their former allies. (Note: maize, also called corn, was introduced to Europe from the Americas by the Spanish after the year 1492.)