^{page 347 note [a]} Cowel, v. Dean. Somner, Antiq. Canterb. p. 176.

^{page 347 note [b]} Legatine Constitut. of Otto, A. D. 1237, I. 28.

^{page 347 note [c]} Thorne, Chron. col. 2160.

^{page 347 note [d]} The Matrix is penes Rev. Edv. Taylor de Bifrons, c. Cant.

^{page 347 note [e]} Lewis on Seals, p. 8.

^{page 347 note [f]} Archaeologia Soc. Antiq. III. p. 425.

^{page 348 note [g]} MS. letter of bishop Kennett to bishop Gardiner, inserted in his own copy of the Paroch. Antiq. now in the possession of my singular good friend Richard Gough, Esq.

^{page 348 note [h]} Otto, ibid.

^{page 348 note [i]} The scarcity of Notaries Public occasioned Otto's appointment of authentic seals, as they were called; and indeed there were to few of those practitioners here, that I have seen them fetched from Lichfield into York diocese, and vice versa.

^{page 348 note [k]} Du Fresne, tom. VI. col. 491.

^{page 349 note [l]} Not always, for see Drake, Ebor. Append. p. ci. and plate.

^{page 349 note [m]} Mabillon apud Du Fresne VI. col. 491. Stat. 35 E. I. in Gibson's Cod. p. 1223. The abbat however had his private seal. Ibid.

^{page 349 note [n]} A matrix in Mr. Brander's possession.

^{page 349 note [o]} West's Hist of Furness, Append. N° XIII.

^{page 349 note [p]} Of these four I have drawings.

^{page 349 note [q]} i. e. Sigillum Commune Ecclesiae omnium Sanctorum Derbiae; a cast penes me.

^{page 349 note [r]} Lewis on Seals, p. 1.

^{page 350 note [s]} Wharton, A. S. I. p. 88. or Willis's Survey of Ch. of St. Asaph, p. 215.

^{page 350 note [t]} Willis, ibidem.

^{page 350 note [u]} By the Reformatio Legum 1550, they were to be defaced, and the materials to be given back to the executors, and probably the practice was the same more anciently. Mr. Lewis, p. 31, speaks of their consisting sometimes of gems or precious stones; but here he confounds the secreta sigilla with the large official ones; unless the private seals were to be given up also; for the official seals were never composed of any such valuable materials.

^{page 351 note [w]} Lewis, p. 31. The Pope's seal is broken on a demise. Hist. of Cardinals, p. 296.

^{page 351 note [x]} Willis, ibidem, p. 216.

^{page 351 note [y]} Gunton, p. 46. See also Wharton Ang. Sac. I. p. 739.

^{page 351 note [z]} Widmore's Account of Westminster Abbey, p. 34.

^{page 352 note [a]} Lewis, p. 7. Gent. Mag. 1754, p. 410. 1755. p. 211. Camd. col. 892. for that I apprehend to have been the seal of a private person.

^{page 352 note [b]} Somner's Antiq. Cant. p. 149.

^{page 352 note [c]} Lewis, p. 1.

^{page 353 note [d]} Drawings of the former are in my hands; and see Drake in Append. p. ci. for the latter.

^{page 353 note [e]} The seal of Robert, prior of Dover, abovementioned, could not possibly be that which was put to the surrender, for the surrenderer's name was Joba. Willis, Mitr. Abb. II. p. 99.

^{page 353 note [f]} Otto, p. 67. 69. Du Fresne, VI. col. 487. seq. Statut. 35. E. I. in Gibson, p. 1223. Lewis, p. 30. Hence they were sometimes carried about the neck; Hoveden, p. 390. Olearius, p. 368. See also M. Paris in Vit. Abb. p. 256. Hence Lyndwood, “tanto diligentia adhibetur cautior, quaato rei abusus “est periculosior.”

^{page 353 note [g]} Philipot, Villare Cant. p. 361. Dugd. Warw. p. 673. Baron. II. p. 457. Lewis, p. 69. seq.

^{page 354 note [h]} Joh. Athon, in Ottonis Constitut. p. 69. See also Kennet, Par. Ant. p. 650.

^{page 354 note [i]} Kennet, Par. Antiq. p. 643, seq.

^{page 355 note [k]} Lewis, p. 30.

^{page 355 note [l]} Gent. Mag. 1770, p. 155.