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72 The preceding observations will, it is hoped, render more readily intelligible the following Scheme, which has been prepared according to the principles of classification that have been suggested, and has been found to answer its purpose as far as it has been hitherto tried. It is capable of being adapted to the size and nature of the collection, existing or contemplated; for when that is small, the sub-division of some of the classes may be omitted; and when large or indefinite, further sub-divisions may be made, taking care that the distinctions appear on the seals themselves, and that in every case the last of any number of heads into which any class be sub-divided, comprises all of that class which are not comprehended in the others.

I.—

.—Bulls and other seals of individuals referring to their dignities, offices, or preferments.

1. Popes.

2. Cardinals, patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops.

3. Abbots, abbesses, and other heads of houses.

4. Other ecclesiastics, secular or regular.

.—Common Seals, secreta, &c., of bodies corporate and the like.

1. Chapters of cathedral or collegiate churches, with or without the head.

2. Religious communities professed, with or without the head.

3. Other bodies or communities.

.—Official Seals, without name of any individual officer, or with name of officer not an ecclesiastic.

.—Seals purely personal.

1. With name.

2. Without name.

.—Seals unascertained, &c.—i.e., miscellaneous ecclesiastical seals not comprised under any of the above heads.

II.—, comprising all that do not appear to be Ecclesiastical.

.—Seals of sovereigns.

.—Seals of consorts and daughters of sovereigns.

.—Seals of male issue of sovereigns, and consorts and daughters of such issue.

.—Official Seals.

1. In the sovereign's name.

2. With name of officer.

3. Without name of sovereign or officer.