Dimensions: Arms Quarterly 1. Per bend embattled (Boyle) 2. Checky a fess (Clifford) 3. Quarterly 1 & 4. Ermine on a pile 3 lions passant gardant 2 & 3. Two wings conjoined (Seymour) 4. Fretty a canton (Noel) on an escutcheon of pretence On a bend 3 owls (Savile)
Supporters A lion rampant per pale embattled and A talbot ducally gorged
Coronet of an Earl
Order of the Garter
Motto VIVIT POST FUNERA VIRTUS
Dimensions: Two shields 1. Quarterly
1. On a bend between six crosses crosslet fitchy an escutcheon charged with a demi lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory (Howard)
2. Three lions passant gardant a label for difference (Brotherton)
3. Checky (Warren)
4. A lion rampant (FitzAlan) a mullet for difference
Order of the Garter
The baton of Earl Marshal
2. Grand Quarterly
1. A double headed eagle displayed surmounted of an inescutcheon charged with a saltire and surcharged in the centre with a hedgehog (Maxwell, Earl of...
Dimensions: 2 shields 1. Quarterly 1 & 4 quarterly in 1st and 4th quarters A fret overall on a bend three escallops (Spencer) 2 & 3 Barry of eight (Poyntz) 2. Quarterly of eight 1 & 6 quarterly in 1st and 4th quarters A fret overall on a bend three escallops (Spencer) 2 & 5 Barry of eight (Poyntz) 3 & 8 On a pile between six fleurs de lys three lions of England (Seymour augmentation of honour) 4 & 7 Two wings conjoined in lure tips downwards (Seymour) Crest Out of a ducal coronet a demi-griffin wings raised gorged with a bar gemelle Coronet of an Earl Supporters Dexter A griffin sergeant chained ...
Dimensions: Arms Quarterly 1 quarterly in the second and third quarters a fret overall on a bend three escallops (Spencer) 2. A lion rampant on a canton a cross (Churchill) 3. Four lozenges in fess 4. Quarterly 1 & 4 On a pile between six fleurs de lys three lions of England (Seymour augmentation of honour) 2 & 3 Two wings conjoined in lure tips (Seymour) Coronet of an Earl Order of the Garter
Dimensions: Crest Out of a ducal coronet a pair of wings
Possibilities for Identification:
Fairbairn’s Crests pl 109/8: Bass; Bulteel; Eredy; Folion; Gipp; Johnson; Sonibanck; Tanke; Van Straubenzee.
This is very close to the stamp for Maurice Johnson (1688-1745), but he had been dead for 50 years when this book was published. It could be the stamp of one of his sons or grandsons.