The Dates of Variously-shaped Shields, with Coincident Dates and ExamplesGrazebrook, George
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The Dates of Variously-shaped Shields, with Coincident Dates and Examples
Grazebrook, George
Seals (Numismatics) -- Great Britain; Shields
No. 10 occurs in a small signet seal, two impressions of which are
attached as a counterseal to a lease by the Priory of Dartford, co.
Kent, bearing date 24th December, 1529. This sealing on the back
rendered it impossible to detach the large wax seal and apply it
fraudulently to another document. This is engraved _Proceedings of the
Society of Antiquaries_, 27th May, 1875.
[Illustration]
Occurs also in a brass, Okeover impaling Aston, date 1520 (Boutell's
_Brasses_, p. 127), see No. 75.
Also in another brass, at Sprouston, Norfolk, dated 1559.
No. 11 occurs without the bouche on a chimney-piece at the Episcopal
Palace, Exeter, 1486.
With the bouche, in the Ramrage Chantry, St. Alban's Abbey, of about
the same date (Boutell's _Heraldry_, p. 98).
Also in heraldic drawings of 1536, in Willement's _Regal Heraldry_.
No. 12, but without the bouche, occurs in Henry VII.'s chapel
(_Archæologia_, vol. xvi, p. 194).
The annexed engraving shows a most interesting knightly shield of the
Schutz family, of Shotover, co. Oxford, dating from the fifteenth
century. It is 2 feet 8 inches long by 1 foot 1½ inches broad, and
was, when Mr. Hewitt wrote his book, in the possession of the Rev.
J. Wilson, President of Trinity College, Oxford. It is engraved and
described, _Ancient Arms and Armour_, vol. ii, p. 496.
It will be remembered that John of Gaunt's shield, described at p. 29,
very closely resembles No. 12.
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Nos. 13, 14, and 15.
No. 13 is shown in the seal of the Free School of Richmond, Yorkshire,
founded 1535-6 (Gale's _Registrum Honoris de Richmond_, p. 254).
In an old engraving, showing Henry VIII. and his Parliament, in Hall's
_Chronicle_, published 1548, a shield of this shape appears on the
curtain extending behind the throne.
No. 14--In a heraldic drawing, 1558, of the arms of Elizabeth, in
Harl. MS. 6096, three of these shields are grouped (Willement's _Regal
Heraldry_).
Annexed engraving of an enamelled plaque, supposed to have formed
originally the centre of a large salver or dish, is taken from
_Proceed. Soc. Antiq._, 7th Dec., 1876, and shows our shield No. 14
with the date 1563. Sir Thomas Bell died in 1566; he was thrice Mayor
of the City of Gloucester, and also represented it in Parliament.
[Illustration]
A Scotch seal, Francis Earl of Bothwell, 1587 (engraved _Herald and
Genealogist_, vol. iv, p. 19).
Another Scotch seal, the Earl of Eglinton, 1620 (engraved _Herald and
Genealogist_, vol. iv, p. 18).
Engravings in _The English Baronetage, 1741_, show the same.
Also in _Principal Historical and Allusive Arms_, by De la Motte, 1803,
which work, indeed, aims at variety in its shapes and designs.
No. 15--In the printer's mark of Ant. du Ry, of Leyden, 1525.
In the shield of Anne Bullen, 1533 (Willement's _Regal Heraldry_).
Also a seal, 1575, _Miscell. Genealogica_, vol. ii, p. 170.
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