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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE plaster casts of seals in the Archives Nationales, Paris, supplied as an exchange with the Museum; the list was drawn up from Douët d'Arcq's Collection de Sceaux in Archives de l'Empire, Inventaires et Documents, whose numbers are cited in brackets after each entry.
Scope & Content:
City of Paris: Casts of seals from the Archives Nationales: 20th cent.
MODERN IMPRESSIONS of the seal of the Barons of Fordwich, co. Kent (cf. Birch, Cat. of Seals, no. 4942), and of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1913-1933. Presented by Lord Beauchamp.
CASTS of sixteen seals attached to documents relating to lands on Claremont in Shrewsbury,. co. Salop, ranging in date from the reign of King John to that of Edward II, in the possession of Capt. John Henry Reginald Yardley; see Transactions of the Shropshire Archaelogical and Natural History Society, Fourth Series, vol. iii (1913), pp. 43-56, where the documents and seals are described by W. G. D. Fletcher. The numbers placed after the names refer to the items in this article
CASTS of the obverse and reverse of the seal "ad causas" of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, as Earl Marshal 1621-1646. Presented by Mr. A. P. Ready.