Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Volume 3order of the trustees, 1894 - Seals (Numismatics) |
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14th cent Baron Beaded border bend betw bezants Cabled border carved gothic panel carved panel chevron betw cinquefoil Cott couché Crest crosses crosslet cusped Dark-green ducal coronet eagle displayed Earl edge chipped edge with small engrailed ermine escallops Essex estoiles fess betw fleurs-de-lis forked tree fragment Green guardant Harl head erased helmet and mantling helmet and ornamental imperfect indistinct initial letters injured by pressure inner edge IOH'IS IOHANNIS John Kent label of three lambrequin Linc lion rampant lions passant Lord lxxxviii mantling and wreath martlets motto mullet Norf Northt ornamental mantling ornamental shield ornamented with ball-flowers ornamented with small Oval a shield pale panel ornamented perfect placard Plaster cast pression quarterly quatrefoil panel Richard Robert saltire Seal shield of arms SIGILL Sigillum signet small quatrefoils sprigs of foliage strap Suff Sulph Suspended Suss Thomas THOME three lions trefoil panel William wyverns
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Page 376 - A shield of arms, couche, quarterly i and 4 France ; 2 and 3 England : over all in chief a label of three points ermine ; crest on a helmet and short mantling diapered, on a chapeau a lion statant guardant, crowned, charged on the neck with a label of three points ermine, the tail hanging down ; supporters, two falcons, each standing on a padlock and essaying to open the same : the background replenished with sprigs of foliage : — within a carved Gothic quatrefoil, ornamented along the inner edge...
Page 314 - blotted out. 80 yeares since." Between the chancel and this yle another monument, more costly, arched over, of white stone too, the statue of a knight, armes, and a ruffe, and gathered breeches, and a lady by him ; these two coates often carved : POULET. Quarterly, in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a fret, over all a fess [NORREYS]. The statues of four sons : Joh'es P. films et heres ; Amos [sc. Amias] P. filius 2d"9 ; Henr. P. filius 3 ; Tho. P. f. 4, obijt 14 July, 1611. Phillipus P. f. quintus.
Page 376 - ... to Ad. Ch. 13,910 (Catalogue, No. 12,694) ; one of AD 1380, attached to Harl. Ch. 84, c 17 (Catalogue, No. 23,053). They are described (ibid.) : — " Armorial bearings not on a shield. Per pale dexter, quarterly 1 and 4 Castile ; 2 and 3 Leon ; sinister, quarterly 1 and 4 France (ancient) ; 2 and 3 England, with a label of three points ermine. The first and fourth quarters of each F1r,, (iv.) PRIVY SEALS AND GREAT SEAL OF JOHN OF GAUNT.
Page 543 - Upon a flat stone inlayed with brasse, chancel : A fess between three mullets [PULTON] ; impaling a fess wavy and in chief three piles, also wavy, points meeting in fesse, argent [!SHAM], Here lyeth Elizabeth the daughter of John Isham of Langport in this county of North'ton, Esq. and wife to George Pulton, lord of this towne of D. Esq. she dyed May 12, 1584. This knot carved upon the stayre east up to the rood-loft. Painted also in the church. [A drawing of the...
Page 685 - England, which was incorporated earlv in the sixteenth century, and designed to supersede the Silyard Company of Foreign Merchants, whose exclusive privileges were subsequently withdrawn. These arms are, az. in base a sea with a dolphin's head appearing in the water, all prop. On the sea a ship with three masts in full sail or, the sails and rigging ar. on each sail a cross gu. in the dexter chief point the luce in splendour, and in the sinister chief point an etoile or. On a chief ar. a cross gu....
Page 74 - ... Antrim, he had four children : Charles, who died an infant ; George, the witty duke, who succeeded him ; Francis, who fell in the civil wars ; and Mary, afterwards Duchess of Richmond. THE LORD CHAMBERLINE, pp. 22, 23. ARMS. — Per pale az. and gu., three lions rampant, two and one, arg. ; the shield encircled with a garter, inscribed with the motto of the order, and ensigned with the coronet of an earl. William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, was the eldest son of Henry Herbert, the second...
Page 527 - ... Ralph Botiller, kt., lord of Sudeley, and to Bartholomew Bold, esq., of the custody and captaincy of the town of Coneway in North Wales, and to the said Ralph, of the office of master forester of the forest of Snowden, in the Principality of Wales. Nov. 19, 1458. 1367. Grant and confirmation by Edward, Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley and Strange, Lord of Man and the Isles...
Page 380 - In a quadrilobe a shield of arms : quarterly i, 4, France, modern ; 2, 3, England ; over all a label of three points, each indistinctly charged ; Henry Prince of Wales. Between two ostrich feathers labelled ; over the shield a swan rising. S'HENRIC'PRINCIPIS WAL'DUC'CORNUB" COMIT'CESTR'DE'OFFICIO COCKETTI DUCATUS CORNUBIE.
Page 445 - ... had better quote from the official Catalogue of Seals (III. 461), British Museum : — " Alianora widow of Theobald Russel of co. Somers. (dau. of Ralph de Gorges). " 13,167 [AD 1356] . . . originally fine . . . [Cott. Chart., XXIX. 37]. " A shield of arms : per pale dex., on a chief three bezants4 Russell ; sin. lozengy Gorges. Betw. four small lozenge-shaped shields of arms : the two at the sides (1. h. side wanting) Russell, the two at top and bottom, Gorges.
Page 650 - Suspended by a strap from a forked tree. Within a carved panel enriched with open tracery at the sides and ornamented along the inner edge with small quatrefoils.