"Errata to Cloth Seals: An Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth"

"Errata to Cloth Seals: An Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Lead Seals Attached to Cloth"

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ERRATA:-

p.57 - Lion is rampant not passant, see BSG.CS.00229

p.91 - BSG.CS.00155 This may or may not be from a Canterbury seal. This disc appears on other Commonwealth alnage seals, see BSG.CS.01406 a Worcester Commonwealth alnage seal.

p.102 Northampton - This is more probably a Norwich seal, see BSG.CS.01459, which clearly shows the lettering around the date to be NORIM rather than NORAM.

p.143 - Yorkshire - MOL 78.227/15 - "William Power was an alnager for stockings in Yorkshire from 1618 to 1624." It should be added to this that while no definite connection can be made with the WP initials shown between the K & C, dating to the first part of the 17th century is correct for this type of seal.

p.246 Searcher’s Seal, PAS NLM-4F984C IOSEPH / NECKER should read IOSEPH / ARCHER (with thanks to Paul Cannon) The following is taken from the orders books for Wakefield District:
“Ordered that the several persons following be appointed and sworn Narrow Cloth Searchers for the year ensuing for the several salaries and at the several mills and places hereafter mentioned (that is to say): Pontefract 23 April 1759, Joseph Archer: Hobson’s Battys, Oxsprings, dyers, Hunshelf: £16.0”.
Joseph Archer is one of twenty nine narrow cloth searchers recorded for that year.
See PAS LIN-57C813 for searcher's seal for Richard Grice and PAS SUR-AD5735 for another for James Kershaw.

p.307 - "BSG.CS.00518 & MOL 90.342/1 are examples of a rare variety with a lion rampant on a crested shield on one side and GROS / HART / ANS / ? on the other." These seals are now known to be from the German municipality of Großhartmannsdorf. See BSG.CS.00518 and BSG.CS.00520


ADDITIONS:-

p.27 Cloth Seal Matrices - PAS SOM-A3D47E maybe another example. See also PAS NFAHG-C241B0

p.41 Berkshire - see also BSG.CS.01401

p.87 Kent - see BSG.CS.01353

p.92 Sandwich (Kent) - see BSG.CS.01502

p.139 Worcestershire - see also BSG.CS.01406

p.152 Seals of Known Monarch - possible seals of Henry VI, VII or VIII, see BSG.CS.01180 and BSG.CS.00797

p.166 Anne - Inscriptions found around busts of Anne include: FIDEI. DEFEN (see BSG.CS.01442)

p.267 Clothiers’ Seals - Edmund Cock Junior, Exeter, see BSG.CS.01181
George Poe, Exeter, - BSG.CS.01373
John & Jeremiah Naylor & Co., Wakefield - Unique Identification Number - BSG.CS.01365

p.324 St Gallen See also BSG.CS.01508

p.351 Appendix 2: Types of Cloth, Long ell: a kind of perpetuana - "measuring twenty-four yards long by thirty-one inches wide, and weighing twelve pounds apiece, long ells (or sandfords as they were sometimes called - a variety of serge) had historically been the speciality of the Ashburton area." [Maunder, P., 2018, p.327] Towards the end of the 18th century the East India Company traded large quantities of this cloth to China in exchange for tea.

p.372 List of Alnagers Known by their Initials - RH see BSG.CS.01375 & BSG.CS.00405

p.373 List of Alnagers Known by their Initials - RV see BSG.CS.01406

p.384 Distinctive Identification Features on Cloth Seals - Keys - Avignon; Comines-Warneton; Reichenbach im Vogtland; Salzwedel; Trier; (Keys crossed) - Lubań, Poland; Vatican City State