Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Exeter, Edmund Cock, Image & Found by Madelinus
Cloth Seal, Exeter, Edmund Cock, Clothier's Seal, Image & Found by Madelinus.
Found in soil from Amsterdam, Length 40mm, 10.8g.
Blank // 21 1/2 (in square border) // two scallops, EDMOND.C???.IN.EXON around // blank
See p.76, 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, where Egan describes similar seals fro two other Exeter clothiers, James White and James Grant. This is a newly recorded Exeter clothier, Edmund Cock, Cook, Cunn or perhaps Gunn (or the last three letters of the surname may be completely different or may even converge with the IN to make that the ending of the surname.)?
I am indebted to Peter Maunder for the following, “Cock was one of the leading exporters of serge from Exeter to the Netherlands. There were two Edmond Cocks, father and son, and their dates together span 1690 to 1750, exporting to the Netherlands throughout. I have done an analysis of the Exeter port books for this period, and there are no other Edmonds who could fit this seal.”