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The Publisher Of This Book Utilises Modern Printing Technologies As Well As Photocopying Processes For Reprinting And Preserving Rare Works Of Literature That Are Out-Of-Print Or On The Verge Of Becoming Lost. This Book Is One Such Reprint. Purchase Of This Book Includes Free Trial Access To Www.Million-Books.Com Where You Can Read More Than A Million Books For Free. This Is An Ocr Edition With Typos. Excerpt From Book: On The Seals Of The Bishops Of Salisbury?Opening Address Of The Antiquarian Section At The Annual Meeting Of The Institute At Salisbury. By The Right Rev. The Bishop Of Salisbury.1 An Asterisk () Attached To The Uuiuber Or Description Of A Seal Indicates That It Is Figured On One Of The Three Plates. When I First Began To Have A Practical Interest In The Matter Of Bishops' Seals Some Two Years Ago I Made Enquiries Whether Anything Had Been Written On The Subject And I Learnt Somewhat To My Surprise That It Was One Which Was Almost Wholly Untouched. I Was Shown Indeed An Excellent Book On Scottish Seals In Two Volumes Quarto By The Late Henry Laing Of Edinburgh Published In 1850 And 1866 Which Contains A Catalogue Of 2608 Seals In All Of Which As Many As 223 Are Seals Of Scotch Bishops With A Fair Number Of Excellent Illustrations. But I Could Not Learn That There Was A Similar Book For England Even Of This General Character. One Or Two Articles In Encyclopedias And A Few Notices In Periodicals Or Special Histories Seemed To Exhaust The Literature Of The Subject.2 I Was Therefore Led To Examine Such Seals As Were Accessible In The British Museum And In The Bodleian Library And Formed Certain General Conclusions Which Were Not Difficult To Gather Even From Such A Hurried And Partial Survey As I Then Had Time To Make. Now I Am Glad To Find That My Friend Mr. W. H. St. John HopeSecretary Of The Society Of Antiquaries Has Collected A Much Larger Store Of Information And Drawn Much More Precise And Practical Conclu