a common seal except the seal of the abbot'. The General Chapter of that year also insisted that each abbot should possess only one seal;6 a precaution against fraud and mis-...
Barons of the March. The seal of Cymer carried heraldic devices now indistinct (but possibly incorporating the eagle of Gwynedd), that of Neath (like Margam) bore three clari...
The British Library: 221, 223b, 225, 226b, 227, 228, 229, 231, 233, 238, 239a, 251, 252. The British Museum: 234a. The Public Record Office: 224, 232, 236, 240, 247, 248, 253...
Part IV: Seals of Cistercian Monasteries SEALS OF ABBOTS GROUP A GRACE DIEU ABBEY, GWENT 218. 1264 L: PRO, E 135/21/5, No. 10. Dark-green wax fragment only. A standing figure...
NEATH ABBEY, WEST GLAMORGAN First Seal of the Abbot 222. 1208 L: NLW, Penrice Charter 101 (Seal No. 4). Red wax, p.o., 42 x 26 mm. An abbot standing on a diminutive corbel, c...
GROUP B LLANTARNAM ABBEY, GWENT 228. 1203 L: BL, Harl. Ch. 75 A. 32. Dark-brown wax, fragmentary, circ., 32 mm. A cowled forearm issuing from the right, with tassels pendant...
Later Seal 232. 1538 L: PRO, E 210/4307. Red wax, circ., 15 mm. Issuing from the right, a sinister hand holding upright a pastoral staff; an estoile (possibly two, and a cres...
234b. E: NMW, W. 151 (red silicon rubber). NMW, W. 152 and 153 (red wax). NLW, in Box of 'Casts of Seals' (red wax impression made by Rev. G. Eyre Evans, Aberystwyth, in 1903...
BASINGWERK ABBEY, CLWYD Second Common Seal 238. 1465 L: BL, Add. Ch. 8527. Bronze-green wax, circ., 50 mm. In three niches, under a triple late-gothic canopy: centre, the Ble...
Earldom of March in 1425. (I am indebted to Dr. M. Siddons for commenting on the devices; the ascription to Mortimer and Burgh derives from the PRO Card Index of Seals). The...
