The Great Seals of England, by Alfred Benjamin and Allen Wyon, London, 1888. Review in The Spectator, 61, 173. Footnote 5: Familiar Letters of John Adams and his Wife, 210. Footnote 6: Journals of the Continental Congress (W. C. Ford, editor), 1906, V, 690 _n._ Footnote 7: Our Great Seal, by C. A. L. Totten, 1, 25, gives a reproduction of the frontispiece. Footnote 8: Reports of Committees relating to Congress, vol. 23, Continental Congress MSS. All the committee reports bearing on the seal are in this volume. Footnote 9: See note at the end for a glossary of heraldic terms used. Footnote 10: Delaware counties. Footnote 11: Journals of Congress (W. C. Ford, editor), 1906, V, 689. Footnote 12: See, however, Historic Side-lights, by Howard Payson Arnold, p. 284. Footnote 13: Writings of Jefferson (P. L. Ford), edition of 1892, I, p. 420. Footnote 14: The first use of the motto is traced in Preble’s History of the American Flag, p. 694. Footnote 15: Memoirs of Thomas Hollis, Esq., F. R. and A. S. S.; London: MDCCLXXX; vol. 2, p. 789. Footnote 16: Randall’s Life of Jefferson, 3, 585. This would seem to be conclusive, but since the writer prepared his brochure on the great seal in 1892 several people whose opinions are entitled to consideration have expressed a doubt whether the inscription does not, or at any rate did not, exist. Bradshaw died during the closing years of the Commonwealth and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Upon the Restoration his body was disinterred and hanged, when several other regicides were executed, after which the trunk was thrown into a hole at the foot of the gallows and the head publicly displayed, as the custom was in those times. Some members of the court of which he was president are said to have gone to Jamaica, and it was declared by some that Bradshaw spread the report of his death and retired secretly to that island. There is even a surviving rumor that he and his colleagues were in this country, and a well-known landmark near New Haven is the “Regicides’ Cave.” In all of this we see merely an example of one of those myths which so often surround the death of one whose life was peculiarly conspicuous. In Bradshaw’s case his double burial in England would still not render impossible a third burial in Jamaica, and even if he was not buried there an inscription upon a cannon in his commemoration might possibly have once existed. But the whole story was investigated in the beginning of the last century by Bryan Edwards, the historian of the West Indies, whose work is an authority. In the fifth edition (London, 1819) of his History of the West Indies (vol. 1, p. 213) he says: