Dimensions: Arms A chevron between three escallops Crest A moor’s head couped at the shoulders and wreathed about the temples Coronet of a Viscount Helmet of a peer
Dimensions: Arms A chevron gules between nine cloves Supporters Two griffins Crest A camel saddled and bridled Helmet of an Esquire Motto GOD GRANT GRACE
Dimensions: Arms A chevron gules between nine cloves Supporters Two griffins Crest A camel saddled and bridled Helmet of an Esquire Motto GOD GRANT GRACE
Dimensions: Arms A chevron between three escallops Crest A moor’s head couped at the shoulders and wreathed about the temples Coronet of a Viscount Helmet of a peer
Dimensions: Arms Quarterly 1. Gules a chevron between three luces hauriant argent (Brougham) 2. Or a fess checky or and gules between three garbs gules a label azure (Vaux of Catterlen) 3. Argent a bend checky or and gules (Vaux of Tryermayne) 4. Gules a cross flory or (Delamore)
Dimensions: Arms Quarterly of 16 1. A lion rampant vert (Jones) 2. A chevron sable between three boars heads couped (Jones) 3. Azure three eastern crowns or 4. Per pale azure and sable three fleur-de-lys or 5. Vert three allerions 6. Sable three nags (?) heads couped 7. A boar’s head sable
8. Azure a cross patty fitchy or (Cadwallader?) 9. Or a bend cotised gules 10. A lion rampant sable 11. Sable a lion rampant 12. Sable a chevron or between three fleur-de-lys 13. Sable three cinquefoils 14. Gules three lions passant gardant 15. Ermines a lion rampant sable 16. Gules a fess between three...
Dimensions: Arms Quarterly 1. A cross moline pierced (unidentified) 2. Per chevron three trefoils slipped counterchanged (Knight?) 3. Vair a bend (Manchester?) 4. A chevron between three owls (Oldham?)
Possibilities for Identification:
Numerous families bear a cross moline, especially Miller. Identification will depend on finding the arms with these quarterings and a name attached. Perhaps a random search through the Herald's Visitations might give the answer.
Dimensions: Arms Quarterly 1 & 4. A chevron gules between three escallops 2. Ermine a lion rampant between a fleur-de-lis and a mullet in chief 3. A lion couchant gardant in chief two swords in saltire on an escutcheon of pretence Quarterly 1 & 4 Ermine a millrind 2 & 3 Two bars in chief three [?] heads erased Crests 1. An escallop 2. A cock Helmets of a peer (2) Motto CE QUE VEULT PEULT
Possibilities for Identification:
There is no trace of this stamp in the various reference sources. It remains a mystery.
Dimensions: Arms A chevron between three mullets pierced
Possibilities for Identification:
It is suggested that the arms are those of John Davies of Vine-hall in Sussex Gent whose arms were Argent a chevron sable between three mullets gules pieced or argent. The arms Or a chevron between three mullets pierced sable were the arms of Sir Thomas Davies, Lord Mayor of London in 1677. Either would be possible though Papworth offers a wilderness of other possibilities.
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