 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 424 pages
...nothing was more common, than an invention or rebus for their names, as a swan and a ton, for Swanion, a hare, for Hare, &c. : and because very few of the...their seal about them, either on their rings, or on a roundell, fastened sometimes to their purse, sometimes to their girdle, nay; oftentimes where a man's... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 432 pages
...on his seal, so that at once they set both their name and seal, which was so sacred a thing in thoss days, that one man never used another's seal, without its being particularly taken notice of ia the instrument sealed ; and for this reason, every one carried their seal about them, either on... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1818 - 332 pages
...nothing was more common than an invention or rebus for their names, as a swan and a tun for Svxmton ; a hare for Hare, &c. ; and because very few of the...of in the instrument sealed ; and for this reason, all persons carried their seal about them, either on their rings, or on a roundel, fastened sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1818 - 368 pages
...for. their names, as a swan and a tun for - Swanton; a hare- for Hare, &c.; -and.because very few vof the commonalty could write (all learning at that time...another's seal without its being particularly taken notice 6f in the instrument sealed ; and for this reason, all persons carried their seal about them, either... | |
 | Thomas Kitson Cromwell - 1819 - 676 pages
...common than an invention or rebus for their names, as a swan and a tun for Swanton; a hare for flare, &c. ; and because very few of the commonalty could...of in the instrument sealed ; and for this reason, all persons carried their seal about them, either on their rings, or on a roundel, fastened sometimes... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 530 pages
...religious only, the person's name was usually circumscribed on his seal* to that at once they set boih their name and seal, which was so sacred a thing in...one man never used another's seal, without its being taken particular notice of in the instrument sealed, and for this reason all persons carried their... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 698 pages
...religions onty, the person's name was nanally circumscribed on his seal, so that at once they set hoth their name and seal, which was so sacred a thing in...one man never used another's seal, without its being taken particular notice of in the instrument sealed, and for this reason all persons can led their... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1911 - 300 pages
...there are figured two marks of " Johannes Machon clericus Wigornensis dioceseos Apostolica et Imperiali auctoritatibus notarius," who lived in the latter...taken notice of in the instrument sealed, and for this 1 " A Salisbury Fifteenth-Century Death Register," by AR Maiden. reason every one carried their seal... | |
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Svxmton ; a hare for Hare, &c. ; and because very few of the commonalty could write (all learning at that time being among the religious only) the person's name was usually circumscribed on his seal, so that at once they set both their name and seal,... 