Sinister: Arg., three dexter gauntlets, backs affrontées or. _Fane._
_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.
_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.
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.
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.