Unidentified Stamps

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Initial B Coronet of an Earl In 1696 the initial and coronet suggest the following British earls, Bedford (Russell), Bridgewater (Egerton), Bristol (Digby), Bolingbroke (St John), Berkshire (Howard), Banbury (Knowles), Bath (Grenville), Burlington (Boyle), Berkeley, and Bradford (Newport). The style of the stamp suggests that it is contemporary to the book. The style of the initial B is very similar to that used by the Dukes of Buccleuch. However, Anne Scott, Countess of Buccleuch should be discounted, since she used the title for only 3 years, 1661-1663, when she married James Croft who became the Duke of Buccleuch.

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Initial C Coronet of an Earl One of four unidentified stamps of an initial C and an earl’s coronet in the database. The following earls were active in 1818, 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; Craven.

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Monogram C H

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Crest On a chapeau turned up ermine a lion passant crowned, collared, charged on the breast with a mullet Initials C K Not in Fairbairn's Crests. Encyclopaedia heraldica, and Burke's General armory gives King (Leicestershire) as the only crest belonging to a person whose surname begins with K, but the lion is neither collared or crowned.

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Initials C P

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Monogram D CHazlitt’s list contains the following possible candidates: Daniel Craster, of Craster, Northumberland (d. 1702); David Crichton (born 1650); Sir David Cunynghame (d. 1708).

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Arms Per saltire four cinquefoils in fess point an annulet for difference Motto CVM DEI ESTIS I CORT Initials D F The stamp has been attributed to David Ferguson, Minister of Dunfermline and to David Forrest, Master of the Scottish Mint and Edinburgh Antiquary. The motto is from I Corinthians Chapter 3. It is uncertain whether this is intended to be parted per saltire or whether it is intended to be a saltire between. There are some Scottish armorials of which the ground is parted per saltire, and many who bear a saltire, some between four roses. The family of Napier is one of the latter, but none have a surname that begins with an F

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Monogram E B B E Motto Iατρειον ψυχης This is the stamp of the Swede Erik Benzelius (1675-1743), librarian of Uppsala University library from 1702 to 1723. The phrase was reported by Hecataeus of Abdera, a historian of the early third century B.C., to be an inscription on the sacred library of the tomb complex of Osymandyas (Ramses II), at Thebes. It is quoted by Diodorus Siculus (Diodorus of Sicily) in his Library of History (Biblioqhks Istorikhs), Book I, paragraph 49, line 3.

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Monogram E R