 This latter theory is not heraldically tenable as the quarters in an achievement after the first and pronominal quarter brought into the family by marriage to heraldic heiresses cannot meaningfully exist on their own to represent the person who now quarters them . It is more probable then that the arms of the College really are those of Archbishop Rotherham and were assumed to be those of the College by John Speed who saw them on one of its buildings in 1605 when preparing his map . Lawrence Hall in Ship Street was given to Rotherham in 1476 and leased to Jesus in 1572 . It may well have displayed the Archbishop ’ s arms in its structure as did the building on the south side of the front quad of Lincoln which he completed . These arms for Jesus College could not be confused with those of Lincoln as that College , since 1574 , already had a complex tripartite coat granted to it by Richard Lee , Portcullis Pursuivant , in which the colour of the stags in the centre section had been changed to Or ( gold ) and their attitude to statant . 
