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that of John Piers, a pelican in piety, with the initials I.S., possibly 
used by his successor. John Coldwell’s counterseal gives his own 
arms (checky and in chief three quivers, quartered with a fess), and 
the initials I.C,. He was the first married Bishop. 
Class IT., 1621—1869-contains the seals of twenty-three Bishops, 
of many of whom I only possess seals of the second size without the 
legend, They all belong to what may fairly be called the Laudian 
type. That of Bishop Davenant (1621—41) appears to have repre- - 
sented a shield bearing the Blessed Virgin Mary crowned holding the 
infant Saviour, but it is much defaced. That of Brian Duppa (L641) 
is the first of the modern type with the date at the end of the 
legend, and the two coats impaled filling the field of the seal. The 
only seal that I possess of Humphrey Henchman, who consecrated 
the chapel of the palace, August 28th, 1662, is merely a round seal 
with a shield of his own arms well cut. Seth Ward (1667—1689) 
_ apparently introduced the mitre asa crest, in the bearings on our 
seals, but it is found on the monuments of Davenant (ob. 1641) and 
Hyde (1667). Davenant’s tomb, however, to judge from the 
reference in the inscription to the ruin caused by the Civil War 
ean hardly be earlier than the Restoration. Seth Ward’s own 
tomb has a quaint little bust with a mitre above a wig. In 1674, 
some years after he had recovered the garter, and when he had 
‘finished the repairs of the palace, as evidenced by the date on the 
chequered front, he had a new seal cut very like the former, but 
rather larger, and with the garter round the shield, and, of course, a 
new date. Of Burnet’s* (1689—1715) I am able to exhibita very 
fine example, through the kindness of the Rev. Edward Duke, of 
Lake House. Unfortunately the art is not first rate, the figure of 
the Blessed Virgin being like that of a doll. The mitre may 
almost be described as magnificent. That of Hoadley (1723— 
1734) is like Seth Ward’s, and is unfortunately the last of the 
seals of dignity of the eighteenth century which I have been 
able to procure. Sherlock’s (1734—1748) coat is the first with the 
tinctures clearly noted by lines, &¢., as in modern heraldry. The 
arms of Robert Hay Drummond, who was only Bishop for four 
months in 1761, differ from those given by Riland Bedford. They 
