Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 524
ows to be iitterly unfounded. In the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica (vol. vi. p. 214)2 L 2 516 THE USE OF ANTIQUE GEMS AS MEDIiEVAL SEALS. there is abstracted a charter of Sir Stephen de Eddeworth, knt. temp.Edw. I. the seal of which is thus described : * Seal, an oblong oval, oneinch and… … is accompanied by a woodcut, which is here reproduced. The execu-tion of the horse and rider are evidently not mediaeval but classical,especially the costume of the latter. The legend of course is mediseval,and engraved on the metallic setting of the gem. And to what eraand people the gem may be…
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