Dimensions: Arms Ermine an Eagle displayed between two flaunches or on a chief engrailed sable a trefoil slipped between two crosses patty or Crest In front of a demi eagle a trefoil slipped between two crosses patty fitchy Helmet of an Esquire Motto ALTE VOLO
Possibilities for Identification:
There are no traces of the arms, crest, or motto of this stamp in the various reference sources.
This is one of a number of sets of stamps that are usually only found at Christ Church, Oxford. Paul Morgan identified this stamp as that of Sir John Tash, Sheriff of London in 1719, knighted the same year, who died in 1735 at the age of 62. This seems unlikely from the dates of the books on which they are found. As far as I have been able to discover, there is no family that uses both these crests, and at the beginning of the seventeenth century, to which the books and the bindings surely belong, it was unusual, though not quite unknown, for a family to use two crests. It is possible that what we have here are two members of Christ Church coming together to present books to their college. In which case the falcon ducally gorged probably represents a member of the St John family, of whom it is the historic crest. The greyhound courant is more widely used and I cannot offer a probable identification though Constable of Scotland does have it for a crest without the collar. [JM]
Dimensions: Crest On a mount a falcon wings raised belled and ducally gorged
Possibilities for Identification:
This is one of a number of sets of stamps that are usually only found at Christ Church, Oxford. Paul Morgan identified this stamp as that of Sir John Tash, Sheriff of London in 1719, knighted the same year, who died in 1735 at the age of 62. This seems unlikely from the dates of the books on which they are found. As far as I have been able to discover, there is no family that uses both these crests, and at the beginning of the seventeenth century, to which the books and the bindings surely belong, it was unusual, though not quite unknown, for a family to use two crests. It is possible that what we have here are two members of Christ Church coming together to present books to their college. In which case the falcon ducally gorged probably represents a member of the St John family, of whom it is the historic crest. The greyhound courant is more widely used and I cannot offer a probable identification though Constable of Scotland does have it for a crest without the collar. [JM}
Dimensions: Crest A panache of five ostrich feathers
Possibilities for Identification:
The only likely candidate from the various sources consulted is Sir Hanson Berney, 8th Baronet, of Parkehall, Norfolk (1780–1870); from Fairbairn’s Crests, plate 251/6.
This is very similar to the crest of Beckford Bevan, though there is no supporting evidence to substantiate this claim.
Other possibilities are: Fairbairn’s Crests, plate 61/14: Cleve; Cliffe; Clive; Evelyn; Finch; Finche; Watson.
Dimensions: Crest Out of a ducal coronet a demi griffin segreant
Possibilities for Identification:
Fairbairn’s Crests (plate 64/4):- Besney [or Bestney of Hertfordshire]; Connocke of Cornwall; Coppin of Norfolk; Griffin of London; Lane of County Roscommon in Ireland;
Page; Powell of Hinton in Herefordshire, of St Alban’s, of London and of Herefordshire; Rowles of Surrey; Royden of Devon; Vidler.
Possibly the crest of a member of the Cotton family, though the evidence is slight. Fairbairn’s Crests, plate 85/2 lists Cotton as a book owner who used this crest. Also one of the books cited has a bookplate of Cotton.
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