[Tirante il Bianco valorissimo Cavaliere. Vinegia, 1538.]
William Gulston was Rector of Symondsbury in Dorsetshire. In 1679 he was consecrated Bishop of Bristol, a preferment he held until his death in 1684.
The Gulston coat-of-arms is shown on the screen in Bristol Cathedral. The coat shown on a lozenge is that of a lady of the Gulston family, possibly a daughter of the Bishop. In most of the books on which this coat occurs there is a book-plate of "Elize Gulston," so the book-stamp was in all probability hers also. Both the small coat and the small crest are usually added on the backs of finely bound books, but the large crest occurs on the side in the usual manner.
HAMILTON, JOHN, ARCHBISHOP OF ST. ANDREWS
Arms.—On an archiepiscopal cross. Quarterly.
1 and 4. Gu., 3 cinquefoils erm. Hamilton.
2 and 3. Arg., a lymphad sa. Arran.
[Celsus. De arte Medicina. Basileae.]