Keywords: ArmsRobertSidney1stEarlofLeicester.png en Armorial bookstamp of Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester d 1626 In 1600 he donated £100 to the Bodleian Library in Oxford which purchased with it 55 foreign books all of which were imprinted with Sidney's armorial stamp The heraldry is as follows Quarterly of sixteen 1 A pheon Sydney 2 Barry of ten a lion rampant crowned Brandon 3 A lion rampant double queued Dudley 4 Two lions passant Somerie 5 Barry of six in chief three torteaux roundels a label of three points for difference Grey Viscount Lisle 6 A maunch Hastings 7 A wolf's head erased Lupus Earl of Chester 8 Barry of ten as many martlets in orle de Valence Earl of Pembroke 9 A lion rampant Marshall Earl of Pembroke 10 Seven mascles conjoined three and one Ferrers of Groby 11 A lion rampant within a bordure engrailed Talbot 12 A fess between six crosses crosslet Beauchamp 13 Checky a chevron ermine Newburgh Earl of Warwick 14 A lion statant gardant crowned Baron de Lisle 15 A chevron Tyes 16 A fess dancetty West ; over-all an escutcheon of pretence quarterly 1 Five fusils in bend on a chief three escallops Gamage 2 Vair Martel 3 Checky a fess ermine Turberville of Coity 4 Three chevrons Llewellyn http //armorial library utoronto ca/stamp-owners/SID002 Lobsterthermidor <span class signature-talk >talk</span> 21 05 1 January 2013 UTC 1600 Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester PD-old-100 |