Cloth Seal, Essex Alnage, Lion

Cloth Seal, Essex Alnage, Lion, Image & Found by Derfel.
Found on the Thames foreshore, 15mm.

Blank (lozenge) // 167(7?), three roses E rose S rose S rose E rose X around // lion rampant, mullet over 1/2 to right // blank

A complete, four part, county alnage seal for Essex from the reign of Charles II. The rivet and rove lobes are polygons rather than the more usual discs. Disc 3 probably had 1 to the left of the lion rampant giving an alnage subsidy of 1 1/2d.