Dimensions:
23mm x 17mm Crest A bull’s head erased transfixed of an arrow Motto PRODESSE QUAM CONSPICI
Possibilities for Identification:
None of the names associated with the motto match the crest (Cocks, Lord Somers; Chamberlayne; Cookesey; Cox; Grote; Leigh)
Fairbairn’s Crests provide 2 examples of the crest: plate 44/6 Walcott; and plate 273/6 Hayter
Dimensions:
123mm x 80mm Arms A chevron between three escallops [made from separate pieces]
Possibilities for Identification:
Probably either James Graham (1682-1742), 4th Marquess of Montrose, created 1st Duke of Montrose in 1707; or Sir Thomas Lyttelton (1686-1751) of Frankley, Worcestershire.
Dimensions:
95mm x 75mm Arms A chevron between three mullets of six points 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. 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)
Dimensions:
25mm x 20mm 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.
Dimensions:
60mm x 47mm Arms A chevron between three wolves heads erased Crest A wolf's head erased Helmet of an Esquire
Possibilities for Identification:
According to Guillim (6th ed. p. 193) the arms of Thomas Flood of Millgate, Kent are Vert a chevron between 3 wolves heads erased argent; the arms were granted in 1572.
Burke’s General armory gives Gower, of Woodhall, Droitwich, Worcesterhire; also Gower, of Earl’s Court, Worcestershire, both of which match the stamp.
Dimensions:
56mm x 45mm Arms A chevron between three wolves heads erased Crest A wolf's head erased Helmet of an Esquire
Possibilities for Identification:
According to Guillim (6th ed. p. 193) the arms of Thomas Flood of Millgate, Kent are Vert a chevron between 3 wolves heads erased argent; the arms were granted in 1572.
Burke’s General armory claims Gower, of Woodhall, Droitwich, Worcesterhire; also Gower, of Earl’s Court, Worcestershire match the stamp.
Dimensions:
67mm x 54mm Arms Sable on a chevron argent between in chief two griffins heads couped and in base a lion rampant an anchor between two estoiles (unidentified) impaling Sable a greyhound courant between two bars argent (unidentified) Crest A cubit arm in armour with a serpent wound round it holding a spear in fess Motto VALET PRUDENTIA VIRTUS
Possibilities for Identification:
Neither stamp nor motto are in Fairbairn’s Crests, Burke’s General armory, nor Papworth.
Dimensions:
128mm x 64mm Arms On a chevron between in chief two lions combattant and in base a garb three annulets Crest Out of a ducal coronet a griffin’s head erased holding a broken arrow point downwards Motto SPES MEA IN DEO
Possibilities for Identification:
Motto not in Burke's General armory, nor in Fairbairn's Crests. Arms not in Papworth. Crest not in Fairbairn.
Dimensions:
21mm x 14mm Badge A cinquefoil pierced ermine Coronet of an Earl
Possibilities for Identification:
Possibly William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton (1811-1863), who before 1819 was styled Earl of Angus. However, his dates cast doubt on this supposition.
Unlikely to be Cressy, whose name is inscribed on the titlepage of one of the books cited.
Fairbairn’s Crests, plate 91/2 lists 143 families who used this crest.
Dimensions:
30mm x 17mm Crest A cockatrice wings displayed tail nowed Coronet of a Viscount
Possibilities for Identification:
Fairbairn’s Crests gives the following families as bearers of this crest: Baillie of Scotland, Benger of Kent; Cooke; Hewett; Hunloke; Hutchinson; Prendergast of Ireland; Trevor; and Twisden or Twysden. For the last he gives various English Baronets of the name. None of the above were viscounts.
Burke’s General Armory identifies the family of Cooke who used the crest as having the arms Sable three bends or, Mark Trevor, Viscount Trevor had the crest A wyvern wings elevated and tail nowed sable ducally gorged, but he died and with him the line in 1706. The later peers of that name bore the cockatrice on a chapeau, the family of Twysden produced two baronets but no peers.
Parker, James. A glossary of terms used in heraldry adds: Dancye, Lancaster; Langley, Lancaster; Ashenhurst, Derby, none of whom were viscounts
Dimensions:
23mm x 21mm Crest Out of a ducal coronet a peacock holding in its beak an ear of wheat and a horseshoe
Possibilities for Identification:
The stamp would appear to be a peafowl, though without its tail feathers raised (“in pride”), and holding in its beak an ear of wheat and a horseshoe. It is not listed in Fairbairn’s Crests, nor in Papworth.
Dimensions:
32mm x 26mm Arms Three crescents between in chief two horses and in base a unicorn's head erased Crest A demi lion, a sword blade issuant from his forehead between two laurel branches holding a crescent Motto FRAENA VEL AUREA NOLO
Dimensions:
52mm x 43mm Crest An eagle displayed holding a serpent Motto LITEM • NATVRA DIREMIT
Possibilities for Identification:
This crest appears on English books. The heraldry of crests. London, 1829 shows it for Backhouse (Plate 66 no 21). Fairbairn's Crests (Edinburgh, 1860) has an entry for Backhouse of Durham, Cumberland and Kent, but gives the motto as Confido in Deo. Burke's General Armory 1884 gives the eagle as wings close. Fairbairn (1860) in its illustration gives the eagle, wings elevated not displayed (Plate 75 Crest 11), but Backhouse is not mentioned in the descriptions to the plate.
The motto is from Ovid Metamorphoses
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