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Facsimile Seal of Archbishop Waldby 1397–1398
seal | metalwork
metal | resin
SEAL OF ARCHBISHOP WALDBY
This impression is from a double seal matrix of Robert, Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Lord of Hexham 1397–1398
S Robert Eboracensis Archiepiscopi Angliæ Primatis et Domini de Hextildeham
from the estate of the late Revd Joe Linton
Resin facsimile of seal on chain in original presentation card box. “Within a finely carved and traced gothic panel, a shield of arms: diapered, two keys in saltire, in chief a crown with pointed cap topped with a cross, Modern Arms of the See of York” [Catalogue of seals in the department of manuscripts in the British Museum, p.373 item 2327]
ST ROBERTI EBORACENSIS ARCHIEPISCOPI ANGLIÆ PRIMATIS ET DOMINI DE HEXTILDEHAM
Latin
St Robert, Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Lord of Hexham
1950s?
original 1397–1398
A retired priest gave this to the Revd Joe Linton who could not remember when or by whom. He passed it for the Abbey collection to Roger Milton, Reader Emeritus, who passed it on to C N Dallison.
“Hexham was a manor of the Archbishop of York, and it is still a peculiar within the diocese. During the fire in York Cathedral, in the year 1829, there was found in the vestry the obv. and rev. matrices of a splendid seal of Archbishop Robert, for the Lordship of Hexham, which, in the time of Drake, were in the possession of an innkeeper in Durham. This seal Drake attributes to Archbishop Holgate (1544–1555); but the sigillary power of this debased period could produce nothing half so elegant. It is doubtless the seal for Hexhamshire of Archbishop Robert Waldby, 1397–1398. The arms are given in Drake as the arms of Holgate; but probably the arms have been made to comply with an erroneous conjecture.” [Footnote on p.214 of “Testamenta Eboracensia – Wills Registered at York”, Raine, Surtees Soc.]
Diam. 60 | Depth 4 | chain length 660
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