MALTBY BOOK PLATES

In the Print Room at the British Museum, Book plates of various members of the Maltby family are to be seen.  Whether these are registered in the College of Arms I do not know.  (E. C. Harte, Wells, Eng.)

BROUGH GEORGE MALTBY, No. 19572.

Arg. a bend gules charged with 3 wheat sheafs.

Crest.  A wheat sheaf.

Motto.  Praesto et Persto.

ARTHUR MALTBY, Book Plate No. 19575.

Same Arms and Crest.

(Query: Is this Arthur Maltby IV. 8 of Pedigree XV.?)

Motto.  Semper Paratus.

There are two Book Plates of Edward Maltby, evidently the Bishop.

EDWARD MALTBY, D.D., No. 19573.

Arg. 3 wheat sheafs on a bend gules.  Quartering Beaumont (az. a lion rampant bet. 8 fleur de lys) and impaling Green (or. on a chief indented gules, 3 crescents).

Crest.  A wheat sheaf.

Motto.  Nil sin labore.

The other plate is

EDWARD MALTBY, D.D., F.R.S., F.S.A.

Arg. on a bend gu. 3 wheat sleaves, a lion ramp. In sinister chief, and across in base impaling az. 3 harts tripp, or, for Green.

Crest.  A wheat sheaf charged with a cross, between 2 branches.

Motto.  Nil sin labore.

None. – “From these I gather that when Edward Maltby became a bishop he had to register his arms at the Heralds’ College and the lion represents some marriage with a Beaumont and the cross to note the Bishop, or the cross may have reference to the Arms of Malby of Norfolk, and evidently he had not impaled the correct arms of Breen, implying that he married a Miss Green.” – E. C. Harte.

Note by D. M. V. – According to the biography of the Bishop (Vide. Dict. Nat. Biog.) his wife was a Miss Harvey.  His mother was Mary Fearman; his grandmother, Elizabeth Taylor, and his great-grandmother Jane Brough.  So if the Beaumont came from a Maltby marriage it was before 1640.  Of course, it is likely that it was on the maternal side.  But in this connection it is well to note that John Maltby of E. Retford makes Beaumont Sutton, gent., overseer of his estate in 1647-8.  This may prove a connecting link with the Bishop’s family and that of the New England Maltbys, descending from the above John Maltby of E. Retford.