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DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. 
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Great Seals of English Sovereigns, from Edward the Confessor to 
Queen Victoria. 
The East Table contains, in its several compartments, seals : 
(a.) of ecclesiastical dignitaries, chiefly Archbishops and Bishops of 
different sees of England and Wales, from the close of the eleventh 
to the eighteenth century ; (6.) of Abbats and Abbeys of England ; 
and (c. d.) of Nobles, Knights, and Ladies of rank, from the eleventh 
to the sixteenth century.* 
E. MAUNDE THOMPSON. 
* For a more detailed description of the exhibition in this Department see 1 1 A 
G-uide to the Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, Original Charters," etc., 1878 ; 
price 2d. 
