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 252 REMARKS OX OXE OF THE GREAT SEALS OF EDWARD III. and Holbroke's edition of Rymer, Vol. iii., p. 868, it proceeds thus : — Per quod jam Rex Anglie et Francie in cancellaiia sua omnia sigilla tarn pro regiruine Anglie quam pro placeis de utroque Banco et de Scac- cario et pro officio privati sigilli in quorum circuniscriptione Edwardus Rex Anglie et Francie sive Francie et Anglie imprimitur in tbesau- raria ipsius Regis existentia per Willielmum de Mulsho et Jobanneni de Keweuham Camcrarios Scaccarii ipsius Regis Anglie et Francie apud Westmonasterium die Lune in festo Sancti Baruabe apostoli, viz. un- decimo die Junii anno presenti venire fecit ; Unde Venerabilis pater Willielmus Episcopus Wyntoniensis Cancella- rius ipsius Regis duo magna sigilla utruraque eorundem de duabus peciis in quorum uno imprimitur Rex Anglie et Francie et in altero Rex Francie et Anglie consignandi.' Et unum sigillum de duabus peciis Jobanni Knyvet Capitali Justi- ciario de Banco domini Regis pro brevibus ejusdem placee ; Et unum aliud sigillum de duabus peciis Roberto de Thorp Capitali Justiciario ' de Communi Banco pro brevibus ejusdem placee ; Et tertium sigillum de duabus peciis Magistro WilHelmo de Askeby Arcbidiacono Xortbamptonie cancellario Scaccarii Regis pro brevibus de eodem Scaccario consignandis ; ^ Et unum aliud sigillum de una peeia pro officio privati sigilli ordiuatuni Petro de Lacy clerico privati sigilli liberavit ; Et illud magnum sigillum de duabus peciis in quo Edwardus Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie et Aquitanie imprimitur et quod juxta pacem praedictam pro regimine Anglie ordinatum fuit, et quatuor alia sigilla pro placeis de bancis, scaccario et pro officio de privato sigillo praedictis de stilo Regis Anglie Domini Hibernie et Acquitanie, quibus post paceui praedictam semper bactenus utebatur, prasfatis camerariis retradidit in Thesauraria praedicta custodieuda. Now, the words in the first paragraph, which speak of the circumscriptions of the seals, apply to all the seals alike, and do not necessarily impl^'^ that the two great seals differed in their legends ; but may mean that the seals of the Benches differed from each other in that respect, or both of them from that of the Exchequer, and so forth. The next clause. " Unde venerabilis pater." &c., is positively unintelligible ; and, although the only words in it, which have any meaning at all, seem to intimate that there was a difference in the circumscriptions of the two great seals, if the whole passage could be amended, the result might be very different. It can hardly, as it stands, be taken to contradict the direct evidence of the seal we have engraved. The entry of the transaction on the Rolls of Parliament affords us little, if ' Tliis on the Roll is " consignand'." * This also is " consignand" " on the 8 " Jubticiai-io " is not on the Roll. Roll.