378 EXAMPLES OF MEDLEVAL SEALS. of Essex, who were originally tenants, if not cadets of Clare." The line seems to have ended in an heiress, in the xivth century. It is possihle that the Watlingtons may suhsequently have assumed their hearing. 5. The Ki.ng's Seals fou passes given to labourers and servants, in accordance with the Statute of 12 Richard II., 136S. In a former page of this volume a representation was given by Mr. Franks of a matrix in the British Museum, being the King's seal for Wangford Iluiulred in Suffolk.' It closely resembles in design that of South Erpingham Hundred in Norfolk, which is likewise preserved in the Museum. By the kindness of Mr. Franks we are enabled to give the accompanying repre- sentation of that seal, as also of those of Staplowc Hundred in Cambridgeshire, and of Ilurstington Hundred in Huntingdou- sliire, but described on the seal as of the county of Cambridge, to which it is adja- cent. The execution of the two seals last mentioned is comparatively rude, and the letters irregularly formed ; the crown, in- j,, , , ,^ troiUiced on the seals of Wangford and South Lri.iLii,'u.iiii, .NuiiuU^. Erpingham, is wanting. The matrix of the seal of Staplowe is in the collection of Mr. Whincopp, at Woodbridge. An impression from that of Ilurstington, formerly in the possession of Maurice . I ohnson, and engraved in the " Reliquitc Galeanjc," plate III., has been found in the British Museum by Mr. Franks, amongst the .MS. notices relating to Sir Hans Sloane's Collections. It is not known whether the matrix still exists. It is said to have been found in an urn at Ilarlaxton, Lincolnshire, and a correspondence between Maurice Johnson and Sir J. Clerk regarding it may be seen in Nichols' Bibl. Topog., vol. iii. p. 71. The name has been incorrectly supposed to be Armingford, being that of a Hundred in Cambridgeshire. The seal of the Hundred of Walsh- croft, Lincolnshire, was added in 1852 to the collection of matrices in the British Museum. The name is written walcuost, a])proaching more nearly, as Mr. Franks has observed, to that in Domesday — Walescross, than to the modern form.' Ht.'iiil<.w«' lliiii(lr«<l. •' WriylifB Hintory of Khhox, vol. ii. J.).. H.H'J, lit. Sir ilolxrt <!<• Wntcvilc, oi IOmhox, l)ore, Ar^'iiit, tlinc clurvroiiclH ({uIl-h, u Ixirdtiru iiidciili:*] biiljlu. Itoll /. Ivlw. II.i.. :wi.
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notid-il tiiid (I rc|ircH<-iitiktioii Kivfii in Mr. .Suckliiin'h llinlory of Sufrolk, vol. ii. >. 117. Ilui-Htin(;l<>ii lliiinlri'd.
- See tho Mfinoii' on " N'utinnal Anti-
ipiilifH in till- ilriti^li .Muscnni,*' >y Mr. IrankH, An'lia'ol. .Jmii iihI, vol. x. p. I'J. We arc indclilcil lo liis Kindix'HH foi" lli«> UH(! of till' woo<lculs wliii-li accoiiiinuiy lliiH nolii'o.
