The law of England touching His Majesties four principal seals viz. the Great Seal, the Privy Seal, the Exchequer Seal, and the Signet : also of those grand officers to whose custody these seals are committed.
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The law of England touching His Majesties four principal seals viz. the Great Seal, the Privy Seal, the Exchequer Seal, and the Signet : also of those grand officers to whose custody these seals are committed.
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England and Wales.
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London :: Printed and are to be sold by Dan. Browne,
1696.
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"The law of England touching His Majesties four principal seals viz. the Great Seal, the Privy Seal, the Exchequer Seal, and the Signet : also of those grand officers to whose custody these seals are committed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B21787.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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2. The Antiquity of Seal∣ing.
THe Sealing of Char∣ters, and Deeds is much more antient than some, out of Error, have immagined, for the Charter of King Edwin, brother of King Edgar, bearing date Anno Domini 956. made of the Land called Jecklea in the Isle of Ely, was not only Sea∣led with his own Seal (which appeareth by these words, Ego Edwinus gra∣tia Dei totius Britannnicae telluris Rex meum donum proprio sigillo meo confirma∣vi) but also the Bishop of Winchestre put to his Seal, Ego Aelfwinus
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Winton' Ecclesiae divinus Speculator proprium sigillum impressi: And the Charter of King Offa, whereby he gave the Peter-pence, doth yet remain under Seal. But no King of England, before, or since the Con∣quest, Sealed with any Seal of Armes, before King R. 1. but the Seal was the King, sitting in a Chayr on the one side of the Seal, and on hors∣back on the other side in divers Forms.