By the Right Rev. the Bishop of Salisbury. 



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that of John Piers, a pelican in piety, with the initials I.S., possibly 

 used by his successor. John Cold well's counterseal gives his own 

 arms (cheeky, and iu chief three quivers, quartered with a fess), and 

 the initials I.C. He was the first married Bishop. 



Class II., 1621 — 1869, contains the seals of twenty-three Bishops, 

 of many of whom I only possess seals of the second size without the 

 legend. They all belong to what may fairly be called the Laudian 

 type. That of Bishop Davenant (1621 — 41) appears to have repre- 

 sented a shield bearing the Blessed Virgin Mary crowned holding the 

 infant Saviour, but it is much defaced. That of Brian Duppa (1611) 

 is the first of the modern type with the date at the end of the 

 legend, and the two coats impaled filling the field of the seal. The 

 only seal that I possess of Humphrey Henchman, who consecrated 

 the chapel of the palace, August 28th, 1662, is merely a round seal 

 with a shield of his own arms well cut. Seth Ward (1667—1689) 

 apparently introduced the mitre as a crest, in the bearings on our 

 seals, but it is found on the monuments of Davenant (ob. 1641) and 

 Hyde (1667). Davenant's tomb, however, to judge from the 

 reference in the inscription to the ruin caused by the Civil War 

 can hardly be earlier than the Restoration. Seth Ward's own 

 tomb has a quaint little bust with a mitre above a wig. In 1674, 

 some years after he had recovered the garter, and when he had 

 finished the repairs of the palace, as evidenced by the date on the 

 chequered front, he had a new seal cut very like the former, but 

 rather larger, and with the garter round the shield, and, of course, a 

 new date. Of Burnet's* (1689 — 1715) I am able to exhibit a very 

 fine example, through the kindness of the Rev. Edward Duke, of 

 Lake House. Unfortunately the art is not first rate, the figure o£ 

 the Blessed Virgin being like that of a doll. The mitre may 

 almost be described as magnificent. That of Hoadley (1723 — 

 1734) is like Seth Ward's, and is unfortunately the last of the 

 seals of dignity of the eighteenth century which I have been 

 able to procure. Sherlock's (1734 — 1748) coat is the first with the 

 tinctures clearly noted by lines, &c, as in modern heraldry. The 

 arms of Robert Hay Drummond, who was only Bishop for four 

 months in 1761, differ from those given by Riland Bedford. They 



