240 On the Seals of the Bishops of Salisbury. 
scroll, and underneath it a Bisbop, vested in a rochet, bareheaded 
and kneeling between two shields, on one of which is the crucifixion, 
on the other the Blessed Virgin; beneath the first lies his mitre, 
beneath the second appears the head of his pastoral staff. As to 
the legend “ by divine permission,’ so common in written episcopal 
documents, this is the only approach to it in our seals. Mr. Hope 
notices that Stephen Gardiner (1533) styles himself on his seal 
Bishop permissione dwina. 
The next three (37, 39, 40) have the legend in this form :— 
SIGILLUM . IOHANNIS . JEWEL . EPISCOPI . SARISBURIENSIS. 
and the figure of the Good Shepherd! under a classical or Elizabethan 
niche with pointed gable and the motto PERTIT ET INVENTA EST; a 
shield of arms appears below. In 37 and 39 they are the Bishop’s 
own simply; in 40 we have for the first time the arms of the see 
impaled with the Bishop’s own coat. 
That of Robert Abbot (42) has a Bishop seated, vested in a cope, 
with a peculiar cap on his head (as Mr. E. C. Clark, of Cambridge, 
informs me, something like one on the tomb of Guido d’Arezzo, at 
Arezzo), and in his hands a closed book. The legend round is wholly 
lost ; the letters @x/va appear below, and may be the remains of a 
motto containing the words 7m lege or ex lege tua (e.g, Ps. 93, 12). 
A counterseal which Mr. Ready attributes to Abbot must be really 
1On the use of this figure Mr. T. M. Fallow writes the following interesting 
note from Coatham, Redcar, 13th September, 1887 :—“ Bishop Jewel’s use of the 
figure of our Lord as the Good Shepherd is interesting. I do not know of any 
medizval example, but soon after the Reformation I have noted some instances 
of it on chalices, and those instances rather point to it as specially used by the 
‘High Anglican” divines. Bishop Lancelot Andrewes had a chalice in his chapel 
with this on the bowl. Another chalice of the same date with it is at S. John’s 
Coll., Oxon (teste. A. J. Butler, B.N.C. Oxford). At Malden, in Essex, there is 
a third, which follows after (as does S. John Oxon) the medieval conception 
of a chalice. Another of this date is at a Church (the name of which I forget) in 
Rutland. Two or more old chalices with it were stolen from St. Paul’s, London, 
in the early part of the present century. It is interesting to find it used by, 
Jewel on his seal.” 
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