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On the Seals of the Bishops of Salisbury. 



scroll, and underneath it a Bishop, vested in a rochet, bareheaded 

 and kneeling between two shields, on one of which is the crucifixion, 

 on the other the Blessed Virgin ; beneath the first lies his mitre, 

 beneath the second appears the head of his pastoral staff. As to 

 the legend " by divine permission/' so common in written episcopal 

 documents, this is the only approach to it in our seals. Mr. Hope 

 notices that Stephen Gardiner (1533) styles himself on his seal 

 Bishop permissione divina. 



The next three (37, 39, 40) have the legend in this form : — 



SIGILLUM . IOHANNIS . JEWEL . EPISCOPI . SARISBURIENSIS. 



and the figure of the Good Shepherd 1 under a classical or Elizabethan 

 niche with pointed gable and the motto periit et inventa est ; a 

 shield of arms appears below. In 37 and 39 they are the Bishop's 

 own simply ; in 40 we have for the first time the arms of the see 

 impaled with the Bishop's own coat. 



That of Robert Abbot (42) has a Bishop seated, vested in a cope, 

 with a peculiar cap on his head (as Mr. E. C, Clark, of Cambridge, 

 informs me, something like one on the tomb of Guido d'Arezzo, at 

 Arezzo), and in his hands a closed book. The legend round is wholly 

 lost ; the letters ge/va appear below, and may be the remains of a 

 motto containing the words in lege or ex lege tua (e.g, Ps. 93, 12). 

 A counterseal which Mr. Ready attributes to Abbot must be really 



1 On the use of this figure Mr. T. M. Fallow writes the following interesting 

 note from Coatham, Redcar, 13th September, 1887 : — " Bishop Jewel's use of the 

 figure of our Lord as the Good Shepherd is interesting. I do not know of any 

 mediaeval example, but soon after the Reformation I have noted some instances 

 of it on chalices, and those instances rather point to it as specially used by the . 

 " High Anglican " divines. Bishop Lancelot Andrewes had a chalice in his chapel 

 with this on the bowl. Another chalice of the same date with it is at S. John's 

 Coll., Oxon (teste. A. J. Butler, B.N.C. Oxford). At Maiden, in Essex, there is 

 a third, which follows after (as does S. John Oxon) the mediaeval conception 

 of a chalice. Another of this date is at a Church (the name of which I forget) in 

 Rutland. Two or more old chalices with it were stolen from St. Paul's, London, 

 in the early part of the present century. It is interesting to find it used by 

 Jewel on his seal." 



