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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
I have the honour of exhibiting to the Society an impression of the official seal of Richard duke of Gloucester (afterwards king Richard the Third); as lord admiral of England and earl of Dorset and Somerset. The original seal is in brass, and in the most perfect preservation. It was the property of Mr. Joseph Hankey, attorney at St. Column in Cornwall, who purchased it in a lot of old brass and iron amongst the household goods of one Mr. Jackson, an innkeeper of that town. How Mr. Jackson came possessed of it does not appear. He was a native of Cumberland, from which he removed first to Holdsworthy, after to Crediton in Devonshire, and afterwards to St. Columb in Cornwall, where he died. He seemed not to have put any value upon the seal, nor to have ever mentioned it to any of his family.
page 69 note [a] Upon the death of Mr. Hankey 1782 the seal became the property of Mr. Dennis, attorney of Penzance in Cornwall. See pl. V.
page 69 note [b] Engraved in the History of St. Katharine's Hospital, pl. V. p. 19. from the original matrix in the possession of John Topham, Esq. A like seal of his son Henry duke of Exeter, admiral of England, Ireland, and Acquitain, was engraved by Dr. Rawlinson, 1751, from the original in his possession.
page 71 note [c] Rymer, tom. XI. p. 476.
page 71 note [d] Ibid. p. 490.
page 71 note [e] Ibid. p. 679.
page 72 note [f] See Kennet's Collection of English Historians, vol. I. p. 522.