Akmstkong — Some Matrices of Irish Seals. 461 



Cork, Cloyne, and Eoss, Bishop of, William Fitzgerald, 1857. 



Cork and Ross, Bishop of, William Bennet, 1790 (reverse of his seal for 



Cloyne). 

 Cork and Ross, Bishop of, Samuel Kyle, 1831. 

 Derry and Raphoe, Bishop of, William Higgin, 1853. 

 Elphin, Bishop of, John Law, 1795. 



„ „ Jemmett Browne, 1772. 



Killaloe and Kilfenora, Bishop of, Richard Ponsonby, 1828. 

 Leighlin and Ferns, Bishop of, Percy Jocelyn, 1809. 



Thomas Elrington, 1822. 

 Limerick, Ardfert, and Agliadoe, Bishop of, Thomas Elrington, 1820. 



„ „ William Higgin, 1849. 



Meath, Bishop of, Nathaniel Alexander, 1823. 

 Ossory, Bishop of, Robert Fowler, 1813. 

 Waterford and Lismore, Bishop of, Richard. (The inscription of this 



matrix has the surname erased. The other side is engraved for the seal 



of Richard Bourke, Bishop of Waterford, 1843.) 



There is a small oval matrix of steel or iron in the collection of the 

 Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. It measures If by If inches. 

 (Plate L, fig. 3.") The ^device is a shield of arms, an archbishop's cross and 

 pall on an azure field, impaling, quarterly azure and gold, in the first quarter 

 a golden pelican wounding herself. These are the arms of Hoadly, and 

 the matrix therefore belonged to John Hoadly, Archbishop of Dublin, 

 1729/30 to 1742.- There is no inscription on the matrix. 



The matrix of Euseby Cleaver, Bishop of Cork and Ross, 1789, is preserved 

 in the British Museum. It is of the same type as the preceding, and the 

 device is the arms of the See impaling the arms of Cleaver, two bars between 

 three castles, a crescent for difference. 



In addition there are in the Academy's collection the following matrices 

 of consistorial seals. In some cases these have the arms of the See only, 

 in others the arms of the See impaling the bishop's arms. 



The consistorial seal of Richard (Lawrence), Archbishop of Cashel, Prim, of 

 Ireland and Metrop. of all Munster, 1822. (Arms of See.) 



The consistorial seal of Robert Daly, Bishop of Cashel, Emly, Waterford, 

 &c., 1843. (Arms of See impaling arms of Daly.) 



The consistorial seal of Stephen G-. Sandes, Bishop of Cashel, Emly, 

 Waterford, &c., 1839. (Arms of See impaling arms of Sandes.) 



1 Papworth, " British Armorials," p. 1038. ' Cotton, op. ciU, vol. ii, p. 24. 



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