Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 214
of a SherifF^s seal—a shield of arms charged with a chevron engrailedhetween three bugle horns stringed, and the shieldsurmounted by a castle with three tall towers,^which induce me to attribute it to an earlierdate than the documents to which I have found 1 The engraver has made the chevron wider… … sheriffs seals. 201 it appended. It miglit have been the seal used by John Wayte,Esq., Sheriff of Hants in 1397, whose armorial bearings werenot unlike those given on the shield. I have met with threeimpressions of this seal, each impressed in red wax and used byJohn Fifmarke the elder, merchant of…
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