Dimensions: Arms Quarterly
1. Barry of eight argent and gules a cross flory sable (Gower)
2. Azure three laurel leaves (Leveson)
3. Gules three mullets within a bordure charged with a double tressure flory counterflory, surmounted of an Earl's coronet (Earldom of Sutherland)
4. A stag’s head caboshed
impaling Quarterly
1. A cross gules (St Clair)
2. A pale gules (Erskine)
3. A bend between 6 cross crosslets fitchy (Mar)
4. On a chevron gules between 3 thistles a fleur-de-lys (Wedderburn)
Coronet of a Duke
Initials M S
Dimensions: 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
Possibilities for Identification:
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.
Dimensions: Arms Quarterly 1 & 4 argent on a chevron sable between three martlets sable three fleurs-de-lis argent (Falle)
2 & 3 a griffin segreant sable within a bordure sable of bezants alternating with escallops (Godfray) on an escutcheon the hand of Ulster
Crest A cat statant gardant Coronet of a Baron Helmet of a Peer Supporters dexter a talbot gardant collared, sinister a griffin segreant collared
Motto REMEMBREZ
Dimensions: 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: 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: Arms On a chevron between three fleurs de lys three spearheads Crest Out of a mural coronet a dragon's head Helmet of an Esquire Motto NOBILITAS SOL AVRIVS
Dimensions: Arms Quarterly 1. A fess between three lions rampant on a bordure eight roundels (Willis) 2. On two bars three crosses patty fitchy two and one (Fell) 3. On a chevron between three herons three escallops (Browne) 4. A fess between two bars wavy gemelles (Eliot)
Dimensions: Arms Azure on a chevron between two eagles displayed in chief and a lion passant in base three estoiles Crest Out of a mural crown a demi lion holding a battleaxe dropping blood
Helmet of an Esquire Initials T W Motto TENTANDA VIA EST Legend NEWSTEAD ABBEY