Armorial bindings; Bookplates, English; Heraldry -- Great Britain
_Legend._--EX DONO RACHAEL COMITISSÆ BATHON DOTARE AN. DOM. MDCLXX.
[_Symbolarum in Matthaeum Tom. I., etc._ Tolosae, 1646.]
Rachael Fane (born 1613, died 11th November 1680) was the
daughter of Francis Fane, first Earl of Westmorland. In 1638
she married (1) Henry Bourchier, 6th Earl of Bath, and (2)
Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex, retaining, however,
her precedency as Countess of Bath by Royal Warrant.
The earliest English lady's armorial book-plate belonged to
Lady Bath, and was similar to the book-stamp illustrated
herewith.
[Illustration]
BRIDGMAN, SIR ORLANDO, BART.
_Arms._--Sa., ten plates, four, three, two, and one; on a chief arg., a
lion passant erm. _Bridgman._
_Crest._--A demi lion rampant arg., holding between the paws a garland
of laurel ppr.
[LAURI. _Antiquae urbis Splendor._ Romae, 1612.]
Sir Orlando Bridgman (born 1606 (?), died 1674) was a
distinguished lawyer and legal author. He was the son of John
Bridgman, Bishop of Chester, and a Fellow of Magdalene College,
Cambridge.
In 1640 Bridgman was elected Member of Parliament for Wigan
and was Knighted. By submitting to Cromwell he escaped the
penalties of being a Royalist, and made himself of much
importance as a lawyer during the Commonwealth. At the
Restoration Sir Orlando was received into Royal favour in
consideration of his former loyalty, and was given a Baronetcy
and made Chief Baron of the Exchequer. In 1660 he was made
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and in 1667 Lord Keeper of
the Great Seal. On occasions he acted as Speaker in the House
of Lords. Towards the end of his life he fell into some sort of
disfavour, and lived in retirement at Teddington.
[Illustration]
BROWNLOW, JOHN, VISCOUNT TYRCONNEL
_Arms._--Quarterly.
1st and 4th; or, an inescutcheon within an orle of martlets sa.
_Brownlow._
2nd and 3rd; arg., a lion rampant az. _Mason._
_Crest._--On a chapeau gules, turned up with ermine, a greyhound
passant or, collared of the first.
_Supporters._--Two talbots ppr., collared gu.
_Coronet._--That of a Viscount.
_Helmet._--That of a Peer.
_Motto._--ESSE QUAM VIDERE.
[SAVAGE. _The Wanderer._ London, 1729.]
[Edward Almack, Esq., F.S.A., Brighton.]
Sir John Brownlow (born 1692 (?), died 27th February 1754)
was the eldest son of Sir William Brownlow of Belton in
Lincolnshire. He was Member of Parliament for Grantham and
for Lincolnshire, and in 1718 was created Viscount Tyrconnel.
In 1725 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Bath. Lord
Tyrconnel died at his country seat of Belton, and left no heir.
[Illustration]
BRUDENELL OF STANTON WYVILE
_Crest._--A dexter arm embowed, covered with leaves vert, grasping a
spiked club, in bend sinister or, slung to the arm with a chain of the
last. _Brudenell._
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