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ters, Commissions of Assize, Letters Patent appointing Indian Judges, Grants of Pensions to Judges, Presentations to Crown Livings, Supersedeas in Lunacy, Special Commissions of Escheat, etc., etc. For much information and assistance in connection with this very interesting subject, I owe special thanks to a gentleman as closely connected with the Keeping of the Great Seal — which, by the way, costs about £500 or,£600 — as is Mr. Allan

Wyon with the making of it. I am much indebted to the kindness of the Chief Engraver of her Majesty's Seals, who has not only supplied me with much valu able information, but has lent me a much finer set of pictures of Great Seals than I could have obtained from the wax casts in my own collection, and which, in an en larged size, form only a small part of the splendid illustrations in Wyon's "Great Seal" already mentioned.