Cloth Seal, Canterbury, Alnage

Cloth Seal, Canterbury, Alnage, Image by Derfel, Found by Peter Olivant.
Found on Thames Foreshore, ?mm.

Lion rampant? // CAN / TERBV / + R I + / + TP (ligature) + // crowned fleur di lis, C R to sides // (?C) / A D

A four part alnage seal with the rivet disc possibly showing a lion rampant. The inner discs shows CAN / TERBV / + R I + / + TP ligature and a crowned fleur di lis with C R to sides. The rove and rivet stub is stamped with a possible C above A D.

See seal 4321, p.143, 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. "lion rampant // CAN / TERBV /+ RI +/ +TP (ligature)+ // cross in shield, "THE" STA: SVBSIDIE"SEA: rose around // C/AD The legend on the third disc is presumably 'the state subsidy seal'." Ibid, p142, "Further seals ... are for the alnager TP/PT (also known on Essex seals nos. 134 etc. and cf. Norwich nos. 1386 etc.)"
See Geoff Egan, Nos. 54 & 55, Fig. 18 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum' Occasional Paper 93.
"The two preceding seals are likely to be for the silk fabrics woven by the Walloon refugees, who settled in the city in the late sixteenth century, first manufacturing bays and says. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes brought over a new wave of the settlers, who in the 1680s and '90s injected fresh energy into the silk industry and brought it to new prominence."