106 EPISCOPAL SEALS. 
RaLpH BAINES, 1555-1559. 
Tuomas BENTHAM, 1559-1578. I have not found any seal. 
WILLIAM OVERTON, 1578-1609. 
I have only a signet. Within a carved border a shield 
of arms, a chevron between three unicorns’ heads, 
erased Overton crest on a helmet, and ornamental 
mantling destroyed. 
Now I come to a large blank, as you see by the list of 
names. 
AsBoT, who shot the keeper Branshill, and owing to 
shedding of blood was relieved of his Bishop’s duties. 
OVERALL, who added the latter part of the Catechism. 
HackeT, the great restorer of the cathedral after the great 
rebellion. 
Tuomas Woop, who never set foot in his diocese for 20 
years, and was fined £20,000, which went to build the 
Bishop’s palace. 
Down to our present Bishop the seals have gradually 
degenerated into a coat of arms, growing worse and worse 
in execution, and in which the Arms of the See of Lichfield 
would be impaled with the the Arms of the Bishop. 
EE 
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