mullets (3)

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Arms Quarterly 1 & 4. A boar passant (unidentified) 2. A bend (unidentified) 3. On a chevron between three mullets of six points three lozenges (Butts) 4. Checky a chief ermine (unidentified) Crest A double panache of ostrich feathers Motto MUNDUS IN MUNDO Davenport identifies these arms as Trewarthen, the second quartering as Blackborne, the third as Butts, and the fourth as Coleshill, but admits to having failed to identify the member of the family of Trewarthen who used the stamp. The identification of the quarterings is probably a random selection from the possibilities offered by Papworth. Without putting too much faith in the hypothesis, and still only working from Papworth, it is possible to offer a more likely interpretation prima facie. The only one of the quarterings which can be certainly identified is the third, and this is the family of Butts of Norfolk. Davenport's Bend for Blackborne is presumably Papworth's `Argent a bend sable' for which no location is given. It is not in Burke's General armory, which lists different arms for Blackborne of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Sussex. Trewarthen is a Cornish name and Coleshill with a chief goutty de sang, as in Davenport's description of the stamp, but not in the illustration, where it is ermine, is also of Cornwall. If, however we assume for the moment that all four quarters are from Norfolk, this would give Randolfe for the first quarter, the second quarter is too common a charge to be identified, Butts is in the third quarter, and assuming the illustration is right and Davenport's description is wrong, Tattershall in the last. This is of course speculation, and the stamp should be treated as Unidentified.

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Arms A chevron between three mullets of six points piercedIt 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. The style of the stamp suggests the beginning rather than the end of the seventeenth century. Other possibilities suggested are: Henry Mordaunt, 4th Baron Mordaunt (ca. 1568-1609) John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough (b. 1599)

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Arms Quarterly 1 & 4 on a bend three mullets pierced 2 & 3 three horses heads couped (Slade) Crest A demi lion rampant double queued holding in each paw a fleur-de-lys Helmet of an Esquire Motto ARTIS ET ARTIS HONO Initials M S

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Arms Quarterly of six 1 & 6. Gules from a fess charged with two barrulets a demi lion (Wilder) 2. Per bend embattled argent and gules (Boyle) 3. Or two lions passant in pale between three cross crosslets fitchy (Garth) 4. Ermine on a bend azure three roses (Penrose) 5. Vert on a chevron or between three stags heads caboshed three mullets (Higford) Crest A wild man’s head affronty couped at the shoulders Motto VIRTUTI MOENIA CEDANT

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Arms Quarterly 1 & 4. A double headed eagle displayed on its breast a trefoil slipped (Stukeley) 2. On two bars six escallops (Bayning?) 3. On a fess three mullets (Stukeley of Huntingdonshire & Devon?) Crest On a chapeau a talbot passant Helmet of an Esquire Motto SI SIT PRVDENTIA