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Page 320
... seal to pay much attention to the manner in which the seal was attached to the document . The classification of seals too , according as they are attached to public or private documents , or used by secular or ecclesiastical persons ...
... seal to pay much attention to the manner in which the seal was attached to the document . The classification of seals too , according as they are attached to public or private documents , or used by secular or ecclesiastical persons ...
Page 322
... seal , most often of wax , but sometimes of clay . We are told of a man breaking the seal in order to read a letter , and this fact explains why only the pierced tablets and hardly any reliques of the seals are preserved.2 Tablets ...
... seal , most often of wax , but sometimes of clay . We are told of a man breaking the seal in order to read a letter , and this fact explains why only the pierced tablets and hardly any reliques of the seals are preserved.2 Tablets ...
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... seal appears to have been in use not much later than 1051 . The example of Edward the Confessor was followed by William the Conqueror , but he appended the seal , not to a strip . of the document , but on strings or on a tag or label of ...
... seal appears to have been in use not much later than 1051 . The example of Edward the Confessor was followed by William the Conqueror , but he appended the seal , not to a strip . of the document , but on strings or on a tag or label of ...
Contents
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL 192021 | 21 |
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY 1920 THE BRITISH SOLDIER | 29 |
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191819 | 31 |
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