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" + SIOIL : NOV/E : CiViTATIS : SARESBVRIE-" 



This seal seems to have been used until 1658 (?), wlien it was stolen 

 with other things out of the Council House, and a new one made. 



No. 2. Tliis was 2in. in diameter, bearing an ornate shield of the 

 city arms, " orjoxcr bars azure," with the circumscribing legend:— 

 "THE : CITIE : OF : NEW : 8ARUM : 1 6 5 8." 



No. 3. In 1836 the reformed corporation adopted a new seal, 

 the same style as the last, bearing the city arms with supporters, 

 " two dotible- headed eagles displayed or, each gorged with a coronet and 

 beaked and legged azure." The legend runs : — 



"THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND BURGESSES OF NEW 

 SARUM, 1836." 



No. 5. The seal at present in use is a copy of the one of 1836, 

 2in. in diameter, bearing a shaped shield with supporters and the 

 legend : — 



"THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY 

 OF NEW SARUM, 1851." 



A duplicate is used as an embossing stamp. 

 The Mayor's Seal. 



No. 1. The oldest known is a small pointed oyal seal of early 

 thirteenth century date, 2in. long, bearing the Annunciation beneath 

 a canopy with a figure praying in base, and the legend, in Lombardic 

 capitals : — 



"S. iMAiORiS SAHRYM." 



No. 2 is circular, of early fourteenth century date, Ifin. in 

 diameter, bearing the same device and the legend : — 



" SI<}ILLV iMAlORiS ♦ SARRYM ♦ " 



No. 3, of early fifteenth century date, bears the same device and 

 the legend : — 



" JbtgtUum : matoi tjj ; nobe x saruin." 



