The following earls were active in 1834, when the book bearing the initial “C” was published: Cadogan; Carlisle; Carnarvon; Carrick; Castle Stewart; Cathcart; Cavan; Cawdor; Chichester; Clancarty; Clanwilliam; Clarendon; Cork and Orrery; Courtown; Coventry; and Craven.
Dimensions: Crest Out of a ducal coronet an oak tree entwined by a serpent descending
Possibilities for Identification:
According to Burke’s General armory, this is probably the crest of O’Reilly [Riley; Reilly]. One branch of this family who used this crest is from Baltrasna, county Meath - the county being the subject of the book cited.
Possibly the monogram of Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Blacker, C.B Surveyor-General of India (1778-1823), the 4th son of St John Blacker, rector of Moira, co. Down, who married Emma Johnson of Liverpool in 1813. Authored A history of the Maharatta War in 1821.
There is a couple of possibilities in identifying this stamp: it is probably Elizabeth (Bosawen), Duchess of Beaufort (1747-1828), wife of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort; or Elizabeth (Brudenell), Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry (1743-1827), wife of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry.
Dimensions: Arms From the sinister a dexter cubit arm vested [gauntlet] holding a dagger (or broken sword) in pale point upwards impaling a chevron ermine
Possibilities for Identification:
Dexter: Papworth: gules a dexter hand couped fessways holding a broken spear in pale: Gibb or Gibe.
Fairbairn’s Crests, plate 223/10: Lee of London.
Sinister: Papworth: Chevron ermines: Baynard; Berkeley; Boxall [Boxell]; Gistelle; Gonneys; Gwys; Kirkby; Kirkley; Ladbroke; Lidderdale; Lodebroke [Ludbrook]; Souce [Souche]; Wallis; Wolley; Williams; Wymanson; Wysse.
Possibly Verena Maud, Viscountess Churchill (1865-1938), daughter of Henry Lowther 3rd Earl Of Lonsdale, and wife of Victor Albert Francis Charles, 1st Viscount Churchill (1864-1934), who was raised to viscountcy in 1902.
Dimensions: Crest Out of a mural coronet an otter’s [talbot's] head couped
Possibilities for Identification:
The crest resembles an otter's head, though it could be a talbot's. There is nothing fitting under "otter" in any of the reference guides, but in Fairbairn's Crests there are ten entries under "Out of a mural coronet a talbot’s head couped": Amory; Brampton; Bromige; Damer; Holme; Martin; Nesbitt; Reanolds or Reignolds; Richards; Routh.