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The Episcopal Seals of the Diocese of 
Coventry and Dichfield. 
By Henry A. Rye. 
Read before the Society, December 21st, 1899. 
HE Episcopal Seals of a Diocese are so important 
that it has often been a source of wonder to me 
that so little attention has been paid to them; and until 
Mr. W. H. St. John Hope, F.S.A., took the matter in 
hand, in 1887, with his paper on ‘Seals of English 
Bishops,” nothing had been written on this subject in 
England. Henry Laing, however, in 1850 and 1866, in 
his work on ‘ Ancient Scottish Seals,” had catalogued the 
then known Scottish Episcopal Seals. Mr. Hope was 
followed in 1888 by Bishop John Wordsworth, of Salisbury, — 
