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with his paper, ‘‘ Seals of Bishops of Salisbury.” In 1889 
Mr. Hope followed with ‘‘Seals of Bishops of Bath and 
Wells.” The Rev. A. S. Porter followed in 1890 with 
“Seals of the Archbishops of York”; at the end of the 
same year the Roman Archbishop of Glasgow read a paper 
on the ‘ Episcopal Seals of the Ancient Diocese of Glasgow.” 
The Rev. A. S. Porter, in 1891, read a paper, ‘Seals of 
of Bishops of Worcester, from S. Dunstan, A.D. 957, to 
Nicholas Heath, 1542.” Mrs. Henry Ware read a paper, 
1892, ‘‘Seals of Bishops of Carlisle,” followed in 1895 with 
additional notes. Allan Wyan, Chief Engraver of Her 
Majesty’s Seals, published in June of the same year 
** Episcopal Seals of the Diocese of Winchester.” I have 
had the pleasure of assisting most of the above mentioned 
with casts and other information, and hold that every 
Diocese should have as complete a set of casts of its 
Bishops’ Seals as can be obtained, and I do not see why a 
printed description of the same should not be undertaken 
by one of the Archeological Societies in every Diocese, and 
and I think Burton-on-Trent might do good work in pub- 
lishing that of the Ancient Diocese of Coventry and 
Lichfield. 
Now why do I lay such stress upon so small a thing as 
a Bishop’s Seal? We know the names of all our Bishops 
from Dwyna, 656, to our present Bishop, and though our 
first known seal is Richard Peche, 1162-1182, we can trace 
the rise of the art of seal engraving to its highest perfection, 
and from its dismal fall at the reformation to its lowest 
depths, and in these days see its revival, till English seal 
engraving once more bids fair to be what it once was— 
unrivalled. So we get dated examples, or, as the late 
Sir W. Franks put it, milestones, from which we may 
approximately date without difficulty any similar works of 
art. 
