 There are similarities with the arms of Lincoln College , Oxford , where one of the elements consists of three golden stags statant ( standing still ) ; this was derived from the coat of arms of Lincoln 's so @-@ called " second founder " , Thomas Rotherham . It was once claimed that Jesus had stolen the stags from Lincoln , but the counter @-@ argument ( from an antiquarian with close Lincoln connections ) was that the origins of each were distinct . One suggestion ( by Paul Langford , the Rector of Lincoln College ) is that Jesus College continued the arms adopted by a theological college founded by Rotherham in his home town – Jesus College , Rotherham – which had been suppressed in the time of Edward VI . 
