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 A HISTORY OF LONDON Thomas WinnifFe, 1631 Matthew Nicholas, 1660 John Barwick, 1661 William Sancroft, 1664 Edward StiUingfleet, 1677-8 John Tillotson, 1689 William Sherlock, 1 69 1 Henry Godolphin, 1707 Francis Hare, 1726 Joseph Butler, 1740 Thomas Lecky, 1750 John Hume, 1758 Frederic Cornwallis, 1766 Thomas Newton, 1768 Thomas Thurlow, 1782 George Pretyman (Tomlins), 1787 William van Mildert, 1820 Charles Richard Summer, 1826 Edward Copleston, 1827 Henry Hart Milman, 1849 Henry Longueville Mansel, 1863 Richard William Church, 187 1 Robert Gregory,*«o 1891 The seal de negocVis*-^ had a full-faced bust of St. Paul between his emblems with the legend: — SIGILL' de NEGOCIIS SCI PAVLI There are six seals of deans in the museum collection. The earliest *^ is believed to be that of Ralph of Langford {c. 1 1 42), a circular seal in. in diameter. It shows a half-length figure of the dean in cap and cloak holding a shrine. Richard Talbot's ^*^ seal {c. 1260-1) is a little vesica i:^ in. by f in., having the head of St. Paul in a quatrefoil with the inscription s' pav below it. Below under an arch is a half-length figure of the dean in prayer. The legend is : — s' RIC * TALEBOT The larger vesica (2 in. by i|in.) of John de Chishull ^^ shows St. Paul seated with his em- blems between a sun and a crescent inclosing a star. Below is the dean, half-length, praying. The legend is : — s' ioh'is de chishull decani londoniens' The first seal of the chapter,**^ which is round, 2f in. in diameter, has a figure of St. Paul standing on the roof of the church. He is bless- ing six canons who kneel three on either side of him, and holds a book leeend is : — in his left hand. The ^ sigillvm. capitvli SANCTI PAVLI LVNDONIE This seal belongs to the twelfth century. The second seal,''*^ which also is round, but considerably larger (3^ in.), is work of the next century. The obverse gives a conventional view of the cathedral, which emphasizes the lofty tower, with the legend : — SIGILLVM ECCLESIE SANCTI PAUU LONDONIARUM The reverse shows St. Paul with his emblems of sword and book seated on a throne. The curious legend is thought to refer to the em- blems : — MVCRO FVROR SAULI LIBER EST CONUERSIO PAVLI A seal belonging to the end of the fourteenth century,'**' having a counterseal from the matrix of Dean Thomas Plumstoke, seems to have been used as the seal of the Chapter till the middle at least of the following century. It is circular, i in. in diameter, and has the figure of St. Paul with his usual attributes. The seal of Dean Roger de la Leye*** (1283-5), is a vesica 2^ in. by i^in. with full-length figures of St. Peter and St. Paul with their symbols standing in canopied niches. Under an arch in the base is a half-length of the dean in prayer. The legend runs : — s' ROGERI DE LA LEYE DECANI SCI PAVLI LONd' William de Mountfort's seal (c. 1293),^' a vesica 2 in. by i;^ in., shows St. Paul sitting on a throne with an elaborate canopy, which has on each of its pillars a shield of the arms of the dean which were Bendy of ten argent and azure. Below was the usual figure of the dean. Of the legend only a few letters remain. The seal of John of Everdon ^^ (1323-37) is of similar type. It had the legend : — S' ioh'is de everdon DECANI SCI PAVLI LONDON* APPENDIX The manors which belonged to the p.itrimony of St. Paul's were, in 1 181, C.iddington, Kensworth, Ardleigh, Sandon, Belchamp St. Paul, Wickham St. Paul, Heybridge, Tillingham, Barling, Runwell, Navestock, Chingford, Barnes, Drayton, Sutton, Luf- fenhall, ' Edulvesnesa,' Norton, and Abberton in Essex. Of these all but the last four are identical in name with the places in which the canons held churches, and which include also Walton-on-the-Naze, Kirby-le-Soken, Thorpe-le-Soken, Willesden, and Twyford.' The manors of Uplee in Willesden and of Chelmsford and Leigh or West Leigh in ^ Lists of deans in Repstrum S. PauU, ed. W. S. Simpson, App. iii ; Harl. MS. 2273, 364 ; Lambeth MS. 539, 150. •^ Ibid. Ivii, 4. 432 «• Harl. Chart. 44, i, 57. «^ B.M. Ivii, 8. •* Add. Chart. 19, 981. "' B.M. Ivii, II. *" Ibid. 10. '^ Add. Chart. 19636. *" B.M. Ivii, 12. ' Dm. Bk. of St. Paul's (ed. W. H. Hale), 110-21.
 * " B.M. xxxix, 36. *** Ibid, xxxv, 256.