William Coventry (born c. 1688, died 18th March 1750) was the son of Walter Coventry of London, the lineal representative of Walter Coventry, brother of the first Earl of Coventry, in which line, by special limitation, the Earldom was allowed to rest. Mr. Coventry was Member of Parliament for Bridport, and succeeded to the Earldom of Coventry in 1719. He was Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Worcester, a Member of the Privy Council, and Clerk Comptroller of the Green Cloth. [Illustration] COVERT, WILLIAM _Arms._--Quartered. 1. Gu., a fess ermine between 3 martlets or. _Covert._ 2. Erm., 2 bars and a canton gu. _Boyes._ 3. Gu., a fess between 3 lions' heads couped or. _St. Clair._ 4. Arg., a chevron between 3 garbs gu. _Sheffield._ 5. Or, 2 crescents, 1 and 1, gu., a canton erm. _Symonds._ 6. Lozengy, arg. and gu., a fess sa. _Rockly._ 7. Arg., a cross sa., with 2 crosses crosslet fitchée of the last in the upper cantons. _Balderstone._ 8. Arg., on a chief gu., 3 lions rampant arg. _Yonge._ 9. Or, a cross gu. _Bourke._ 10. Arg., 5 fusils in bend, gu. _Bradeston._ 11. Arg., on a chief gu., 3 crosses pattée fitchée of the first. _Dyall._ 12. Arg., 3 garbs gu. _Comyn._ 13. Lozengy, arg. and sa., each lozenge sa., charged with a martlet or. _Croft_ (?). [BABINGTON'S _Works_. London, 1615.] William Covert of Kent belonged to an old family, members of which were settled in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex since the sixteenth century. John Covert, a member of the same family, had a command at the Siege of Boulogne in 1558. [Illustration] COWPER, WILLIAM, FIRST EARL COWPER _Arms._--Arg., 3 martlets gu., 2 and 1, on a chief engrailed of the last, as many annulets or. _Cowper._ _Note._--The annulets are wrongly shown on this stamp. [SETTLE. _Fears and Dangers._ London, 1706.] William Cowper (born c. 1655, died 10th October 1723) was the son of Sir William Cowper, Bart., M.P. for Hertford, and succeeded to his father's Baronetcy in 1706. He was educated at St. Albans, and entered the Middle Temple in 1681, and became a great lawyer and politician. In 1706 he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and created Baron Cowper of Wingham. In 1707 he was Lord High Chancellor, and in 1718 was created Earl Cowper. Lord Cowper was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Governor of the Charterhouse, and Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. [Illustration] CRACHERODE, CLAYTON MORDAUNT _Arms._--Or, a saltire erm., between 4 lions' heads erased sa. _Cracherode._ _Crest._--A demi boar saliant reguardant or, wounded in the shoulder with an arrow ppr., which he holds in his mouth. _Note._--Probably designed and the stamp cut by Roger Payne. [SUETONIUS. _Opera._ Leovardiae, 1715.]