No. 82--Occurs in a grant of arms, dated 1684, _Miscell. Genealogica_, second series, vol. i, p. 397. The same shield appears in a grant, dated 1696, printed in the same work, first series, vol. ii, p. 191. Such shields with very slightly marked ears, and with pointed or angular, also with French bases, are found very frequently in book-plates of 1700 and for ten years or so later, and sometimes with the sides very slightly hollowed-out. No. 83--Is a shield with Queen Anne's arms, 1706, engraved in Willement's _Regal Heraldry_. No. 80--May be seen in the monument to Tho. Norreys, 1624, in Rainham Church, Kent (_Archæologia Cantiana_, vol. vi, p. 295). A grant of arms, dated 1720, is engraved in _Miscell. Genealogica_, vol. ii, p. 252, and shews the same shield. Seals about the year 1718 appear with this same shape, of rather broad proportions, and with French bases rather flattened. No. 81--In Wright's edition of Peter Heylin's _Helps to History_, published 1773, this variation is used, but of rather longer proportions. About 1780, seals are noticed to follow the same character, and with angular or French bases, just as we see them prevailing even to the present day. [Illustration: _Plate VI._] This shield therefore, with slight variations in the ears, may be found from 1533 to the present day; and the date given in Parker's _Glossary_ was fixed upon insufficient research. COUNTERSEALS in England are usually of the same shape and size as the seal proper; the pendant cake of wax thus showing two complete impressions, one on each side. Edward the Confessor and his successors have continuously used them; but among subjects they do not appear before 1130--excepting, perhaps, that remarkable instance of two seals conjoined back to back on the charter of Odo, Bishop of Baieux in 1075. See _Archæologia_, vol. i, p. 335. Nobility of the blood royal, their wives and daughters, seem to have used counterseals pretty generally from the middle of the twelfth century. The greater titular nobility also adopted them occasionally during that century; but in the next, and until the Baron's letter (1301), a much larger number occur. Their use, however, was very irregular: many prominent titular nobles neglected them, and, on the other hand, we find many families of only moderate territorial position placing secreta on the back of charter seals. I notice as quite remarkable how many ladies who had come to represent a manor, about the middle of the thirteenth century, when the fashion was at its height, at once beautified or safeguarded their seals with a secretum.