By the Right Rev. The Bishop of Salisbury. 235 
wholly gone, and the seal of this most famous pre-Reformation Bishop 
is in bad condition. The cross-keys, if that was the bearing on the 
first shield, and the figures of 8. Peter and S. Paul, are noticeable. 
I had at first thought that there was an allusion in the keys to S. 
Peter’s, of York, to which he was nominated by the Pope, but not 
consecrated, owing to the King’s objections. But I think the 
reference is to the more famous see of S. Peter’s, of Rome, under 
the special patronage of which he was. He was appointed Bishop 
of Salisbury, by Papal bull, dated June 2nd, 1407, and consecrated 
by Pope Gregory XII. at Sienna in 1408, and appointed Cardinal 
by John XXIII, one of his two rivals, June 6th, 1411. The seal 
was therefore not improbably cut in Italy, and this may account for 
the peculiarity of the rays issuing from the central group. It is 
much to be desired that a good example of the seal might be secured. 
His brass, I may mention, is in Constance Cathedral, where he 
died at the Council, according to his epitaph, on the feast of the 
translation of St. Cuthbert, September 4th, 1416. This brass, 
which is interesting on many accounts, exhibits a somewhat similar 
change of feeling to that which we have observed in Robert Wyvill, 
who first shows deference to the Pope, then to the King, though in 
this case the change is not so clearly in Hallam’s own mind. The 
brass, it was said, was cut and sent out from England, of course 
some months after his death. The inscription is as follows,' and I 
make no apology for giving it here, as I print it in a more correct 
form than I have elsewhere seen it. The Festwm Cuthberti is the 
translation of St. Cuthbert, September 4th. 
Subiacet hie stratus Robert(us) Hallam vocitatus 
Quondam prelatus Sarum sub honore creatus. 
Hie deeretorum doctor pacisque creator, 
Nobilis anglorum Regis fuit ambaciator. 
Lfestum cuthberti Septembris mense vigebat 
In quo Roberti mortem Constantia flebat, 
Anno Millenno tricent(esimo) octuageno 
Sex cum ter deno. cum Christo vivat ameno. 
1I have taken it partly from E. Kite’s Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire, 
Parkers, London and Oxford, 1860, pl. 32, partly from a foreign print given me 
by my brother. 
