230 On the Seals of the Bishops of Salisbury. 
seem to be a very early example, since it seems to represent the 
moment of coronation, as Mrs. Jameson, in discussing this subject 
in her Legends of the Madonna, puts next @ the mosaic of 8. 
Maria in Trastevere, another mosaic from the tribune of S. Maria 
Maggiore at Rome, of the date 1290, close upon the date of our 
own example, when painters had, I suppose, already begun to make 
the subject popular. The mosaic in S. Maria Maggiore is ascribed 
to Jacopo della Turrita, a Franciscan friar, and this may, perhaps, 
in some measure confirm my suggestion that the subject was specially 
popularised by that order. 
Class II. Seals from 1291—1830, answering roughly to the 
Decorated period of English architecture, since one Bishop fills the 
long period from 1330 to 1375. This class contains the seals of 
the following four Bishops :— 
16. Nicholas Longespée, 1291—$7, fourth son of William and Ela. 
17. Simon de Gandavo, 1297—1315, Archdeacon of Oxford. 
18. Roger de Mortival, 1350—1330, Dean of Lincoln. 
19.* Robert Wyville, 1330—75. 
The seals of this period still continue to represent a Bishop vested 
as before, but more richly, standing either in a niche, or on a 
diapered and ornamented background into which arms in some form 
or other are introduced. The pastoral staff appears now to be 
regularly turned with the crook away from the Bishop, holding it 
as is usual in modern times. The legend, in contrast to the previous 
class, is S’, for Sigil/wm, followed by the genitive case, with the 
exception of the principal seal of Roger de Mortival, which has the 
legend :— 
ROGERuS : DEI : GRA : SARRESZiviENSIS : EPS : 
though his seal as Bishop-elect (which I found in Mr. Osmond’s 
collection uncatalogued) has apparently the legend :— 
S.” ROgeri det gra ELECTI SARESBIRIENSIS. 
The latter represents the Blessed Virgin with the infant Saviour 
looking tenderly into her face. Beneath is a Church, and again, 
beneath a canopy, is a priest in prayer, to show that he was not 
yet consecrated, 
