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 The Great Seal. eagerly for advancement dissented," — and Campbell further records that Hatton was received in the Court of Chancery with cold and silent disdain. But Elizabeth and all her ministers stood by " the dancing Chancellor," to whom, in the Archbishop's garden, the Queen had unjustly given the Great Seal now pictured.

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I have no space" shows that James's face is pressed into a long flat oblong, with not a feature visible, although the rest of the seal stands out well. The second seal of Charles I., who had four, is shown in No. 12. In the first Great Seal of Charles we first find the words "MAGN.-E BRITANNL-K " used for " ANGLI/E

Jlo. 12. The Second Seal of Charles I. Period of use, 1627-1640. Diameter 6 inches. Legend: carolvs. DEI. GRATIA. ANGLI.I. SCOTl.t. FRANCT.t. ET. HIBERNI*. REX. KID EI. DEFENSOR. Reverse.

James I. had used his first seal for about two years, when it was altered, the King in his warrant for its alteration giving the rea son in the following words : — "Forasmuch as in our Great Seal lately made for the realm of England, the canope over the picture of our face is so low imbossed, that there by the same Seal in that place thereof doth easily bruise and take disgrace." The King meant that his face " took dis grace," for inspection of this seal [for which

ET SCOTI.E," and Wyon suggests — "Probably for this reason the Seal was speedily disused, the people of neither country being then prepared to accept the closer union which eightyone years after was effected with such happy results to both nations." We see that in No. 12, Charles's second seal, his style is " Rex Angliie, Scotia?," etc.; but in the King's third seal, made in 1640, the style, "Rex Magna Britannia?" was resumed by Charles.