One disc from a four-disc Coggeshall 100 quality bay seal.
See Provenanced Leaden Cloth Seals by Geoffrey Egan, Sub-Department of Medieval Archaeology, University College, University of London, submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1987, "Two different types of Coggeshall clothiers' four-disc seals for bays have been recorded. Both have inner discs of c. 45mm and both are dated: [seals 922 & 3384] -// ship, WALTER N(IC)HOLE(S) MAKING around // cock, 100 BAYES 1621 COXALL around // [distorted]" the second is represented by part seals 923A-L, "-//stylised star, 1640 "A" COXALL" MINIKIN " BAYES" around //cock, + WILLIAM " T*W ER " HIS " MAKEING"around //-". This seal matches the first described, seals 922 & 3384.
"A petition by the clothiers of Coggeshall in 1652 requested incorporation, and the right to mark their bays with a distinctive seal, 'with a cock upon the same' (V.C.H. Essex 1907,396) - none of these seals is known, but the punning cock appears on earlier Coggeshall seals used by an individual clothier (see nos. 922 & 923 etc. below)." (ibid, p.87).
