The handbook of heraldry : with instructions for tracing pedigrees and deciphering ancient mss., also, rules for the appointment of liveries, etc. etc. (1869)
Cussans, John Edwin, 1837-1899 · London : Chatto and Windus · leaf 257
persons unable to write of affixing theirCross or Mark. The earliest regal autograph known toexist is that of King Kichard the Second. In the St.Martins charter, it is probable that William affixed theCross; but the signature itself is evidently written by aclerk. I have said that the earliest seal… … Fig. 303. * Bib. Harl. Chart. Antiq., 83a, xii. SEALS AND MONUMENTS. 251 matrix of 2Elfrio, Earl of Mercia, found near Winchesterin the year 1832 ; and the other is an impression of the Sealof Ethelwald, Bishop of Dunwich, found near theMonastery of Eye in 1821, and now preserved in the…
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