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Impressed in Metal: the Seals of a Devon Tax Collector

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Elizabeth  and
Mark Forrest
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With the exception of papal bullae and royal golden seals, metal seals were very rare in northern Europe in the Middle Ages and early modern period. This paper explores a rare example of the use of lead as a medium into which to impress a seal, something that is not only of considerable interest in the context of medieval sigillography, but which provides an insight into the concerns and motives of an individual who in other circumstances would have remained an anonymous member of the Elizabethan gentry and county bureaucracy.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 85 , September 2005 , pp. 366 - 373
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2005

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