APPENDIX I
Reading edition
THE PRIORY SEALS
Fig. A. Twelfth century. Sulphur cast from fine impression, the edge chipped. About 3-1/8 × 2 in. when perfect.
Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew standing, with nimbus, lifting up the right hand in benediction, in the left hand a long cross.
... HOSPITALIS SANCTI ... HOLOME ...
(3487. lxviii. 45.)
Fig. B. Twelfth century. Sulphur cast from imperfect impression. About 2½ × 2¼ in. when perfect.
Oval: St. Bartholomew, with nimbus, lifting up the right hand in benediction, in the left hand a long cross. The saint is half length on the section of a church, with round-headed arches, and two circular side-towers.
SIGILL' CONVENTUS ECC ... HOLO ... I. DE. LVDON.
(3488. lxviii. 22.)
Fig. C. A Counterseal. Twelfth century. Sulphur cast, 1¾ in. A church, with central tower, a cross at each gable end, and two tall round-headed arches in the wall, standing on a ship of antique shape, with curved prow and stern, each terminating in a bird's head, on the sea. In a field over the tower, the inscription: NAVIS ECCL'IE. On the left a wavy estoile of six points, on the right a crescent.
SIGILL':PRIORIS:ECCLESIE:SCI:BARTOLOMEI.
(3489. lxviii. 23.)
Fig. D. Later Seal. Thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Sulphur cast from imperfect impression. About 3 × 1 7/8 in.
Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew standing on a lion couchant guardant, in the right hand a knife, his emblem, in the left hand a book. Overhead, a trefoil canopy pinacled and crocketed. On each side in the field a tree on which is slung by the strap a shield of arms: England.
S'C ... E. HOSPITAL ... SANCTI:BARTH'I. LONDON'.
(3490. lxviii. 46.)
Fig. E. A Counterseal. Thirteenth century. Sulphur cast from chipped impression. 1¼ × 7/8 in.
Pointed oval: the impression of an antique oval intaglio gem. An eagle displayed.
SI ... HOSPITAL'. S. BARTHOL'.
(3491. lxviii. 47.)
Fig. F. Common Seal of the Prior and Convent. A.D. 1533. Bronze-green: fine, showing marks of the pins or studs employed to keep the two sides of the matrix in proper position, 2-1/8 in.
Obverse. St. Bartholomew, seated on a carved throne (somewhat resembling the throne on the obv. of the great seal of Edward I), in the right hand a book, in the left hand a knife. In the field, on the left a crescent, on the right an estoile, each between two groups of three small spots (the whole representing the heavens). Thirteenth century style of work.
SIGILLVM : COMMVNE : PRIOR' : ET : COVETV[S : SCI : BA]RTHOLOMEI : LONDON'.
(3492 and Harl. Ch. 83 A. 43.)
Fig. G. Reverse of the same seal. A church, with central spire, a cross at each gable end, masoned walls imitating ashlar-work, and traceried windows, standing on a ship with a castle at each end, that on the left pointed, that on the right square, on the sea.
In the field at the sides, the inscription:
NAVIS ECCL'E. CREDIMVS : ANTE : DEVM : PROVEHI : PER : BARTHOLOMEVM.
Beaded borders. ("Vetusta Monumenta," vol. ii, pl. xxxvi.)
Fig. H. Seal ad Causas. Fourteenth century. Sulphur cast from imperfect impression. 2-3/8 × 1½ in.
Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew standing on a corbel, in the right hand a knife, in the left hand a long cross.
... ET CONV ... THOL'I LOND' AD CAVS ...
(3495. lxviii. 26.)
Fig. I. Seal of the New Foundation for Preaching Friars, by Queen Mary. A.D. 1556-1558. 2½ x 1-5/8 in.
Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew, standing, with nimbus, in the right hand a knife, in the left hand a book, under a dome-shaped baldachin or canopy in the style of the Renaissance, supported on two pilasters. In the exergue a floral ornament.
SIGILLV. COVET' SCTI : BARTHOLOMEI : ORDINIS FRATRV PREDICATORV : LODO.
Inner border beaded.
(From an impression taken direct from the matrix in the Church. There is an example on red sealing-wax in the British Museum.—3496. XXV. 88; see also "Archaeologia," vol. XV, p. 400.)
Later Seal of the Hospital.
A.D. 1695. Red, covered with paper before impression. 3 in.
(3498, and Add. Ch. 1685.)
Fig. K. Obverse. St. Bartholomew, full-length, surrounded with radiance, lifting up the right hand in benediction, in the left hand a long cross.
COMM ... SIGILLV HOSPITAL' APOSTOLI.
Fig. L. Reverse. A shield of arms: City of London.
In the field, the inscriptions: 1[66]1 (?). INSIGNIA LONDO.
Background diapered with wavy branches of foliage.
... EST SMITHFIELD ET HOSPITALI ...
With the exception of the Marian seal (Fig. I), the illustrations come from the impressions in the British Museum, whose catalogue numbers are given in every case for convenient reference.