RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Seffrid, 1197 



Simon de Perigord, I22O 



Walter, 1230 



Thomas de Lichfield, 1232 



Geoffrey, 1248" 



Walter de Glocestria, 1256 



William de Bracklesham, 1276 



Thomas de Berghstede, 1296 



William de Grenefeld, 1302 



John de Sancto Leophardo, 1307 



Henry de Garland, 1332 



Walter de Segrave, 1342 



William de Lenne, 1349 



Roger de Freton, 1369 



Richard le Scrope, 1383 



William de Lullyngton, 1389 

 John de Maydenhithe, 1400 

 John Haselee, 1407 



Henry Lovel, 1410 



Richard Talbot, 1415 



William Milton, 1420 



John Patten, or Waynflete, 1425 



John Crutchere, 1429 



John Waynflete, 1478 



John Cloos, 1481 



John Prychard, 1501 



Geoffrey Symson, 1504 



John Young, S.T.P. 1 508 



William Fleshmonger, 1526 



Richard Caurden, 1541 



Giles Eyre, S.T.P. 1549 



Bartholomew Traheron, S.T.P. 1551 



Thomas Sampson, S.T.P. 1552 



William Pye, 1553 



Hugh Turnbull, 1558 



Richard Curteis, 1566 



Anthony Rushe, 1570 



Martin Culpepper, M.D. 1577 



William Thorne, 1601 



Francis Dee, 1630 



Richard Steward, 1634 



Bruno Ryves, 1646 



Joseph Henshaw, 1660 



Joseph Gulston, S.T.P. 1663 



Nathaniel, Lord Crew, LL.D. 1669 



Thomas Lambrook, 1671 



George Stradling, S.T.P. 1672 



Francis Hawkins, S.T.P. 1688 



William Hayley, S.T.P. 1699 



Thomas Sherlock, 1715 



John Newey, 1727 



Thomas Hayley, D.D. 1735 



James Hargraves, D.D. 1 739 



Sir William Ashburnham, Bart. 1741 



Thomas Ball, A.M. 1754 



Charles Harward, 1770 



Combe Miller, 1790 



Christopher Bethell, 1814 



Samuel Slade, 1824 



George Chandler, D.C.L. 1830 



Walter Farquhar Hook, D.D. 1859 



71 Saw. Arch. Coll. xxiv, 43 . " Cal. Papal Let. iii, 



John William Burgon, D.D. 1875 

 Francis Pigou, D.D. 1887 

 Richard William Randall, D.D. 1892 

 John Julius Hannah, 1902 



The common seal of the Dean and Chapter 75 

 is of the twelfth century, and is an oblate 

 pointed oval : a church, no doubt intended for 

 the original cathedral ; beneath it the inscrip- 

 tion : 



TPLV IVSTICIE. 



In the field above two estoiles of eight points. 

 Legend : 



+ SIGILLVM : SANCTE : CICESTRENSIS : ECCLESIE 



Reverse. A smaller pointed oval counterseal. 

 Our Saviour seated on a throne of Gothic style 

 under a trefoiled canopy, and lifting up the right 

 hand in benediction, in the left hand an open 

 book. Legend : 



EGO SVM VIA VERITAS ET VITA 



The fourteenth-century seal of the Dean and 

 Chapter ad causas is a pointed oval : our Saviour 

 lifting up the right hand in benediction, in the 

 mouth a sword ; seated on an open throne, with 

 His feet resting on an ornamental corbel. In 

 the field the letters Jj ^ 76 



S' DECANI . ET CAPITVLI . CICESTRENs' 

 [AD CAV]SAS 



The following seals of individual deans are 

 known : 



WALTER A.D. 1230, or 1262 



Pointed oval : the dean, full-length, holding a 

 book, and standing in a Gothic niche with a 

 canopy and tabernacle work at the sides. 77 



SIGILL' . WALTER[I . DEC]ANI . CICESTRIE 



GEOFFREY 



Pointed oval : the dean, full-length, holding a 

 book, and standing on a platform under a finely- 

 carved Gothic canopy with tabernacle work at 

 the sides. 78 



SIGILLVM : GALFRIDI I DECANI : CICESTRIE 

 WILLIAM DE GRENEFELD, A.D. 1296-9 



Pointed oval : our Saviour with nimbus, lifting 

 up the right hand in benediction, in the left hand 

 a book ; seated on a throne under an early 

 Gothic canopy. In the field at the sides the 

 heads of SS. Peter and Paul, couped at the neck ; 

 below them their respective emblems. In base, 

 under arch, a figure of the dean. 78 



34- 



LL'I : DECANI : E . 

 CICESTRENSIS 



Cott. Ch. xii, 80. " Add. Ch. 18707. 

 " B.M. Ivii, 38. 7 " Harl. Ch. 83 C. 32. 



" B.M. Ivii, 39. 



