Show THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND talt it rt I k Clint dla ri hank anil and blaney tile mere holding of tile greit great sial seal of c england ind entitle tho ilia foit umito in to HO a year to ilac patronage i att in church and state to lie he of tile tho amuge of lords a pi private vote counselor if and the ilia head 0 of if all judiciary authority in in the kingdom liing jom of G groat rent britain and keeper of the royal conscience and to rank next to the royal family tho the mccond subject lit in the realm it la Is very cry if not im possible to say when england first had seals hi ala w ere not intili used by out car anglo saxon ancestors linc estora but earn 0 largely into fashion luring during the norman norm in reigns the 1 ho gilt crosses or marks of EI L 1 ward tile tho confessor ani ami other saco featon n kings can scarcely bo be called seals and partook took more of the character 0 of f signi tures of tin an illiterate ige age but n grand rt r t rid and perfect seal beal of william the tha conjuror mists having tile monarch crowned tin aind thrones on oil tile ono one olde and mounted on horseback on tile the other attitudes which A inch have IBM been invariably observed red cd to tho the present day ono remarkable circum c connected with tile great seal beal is 19 its pro ro greive growth in size as time advanced originally years eara since not larger than tile top or of an ordinary modern tea sup mp it ila has been gradually gia dually enlarged fir from 0 1 n ago to age till it offers now alio t lie size a n d ippe aranco of a and requires to tin bo enclosed in inn a tin tia box for protection indeed so BO cura berous and w unwieldy iel y had the great seal become that or four years since binte an act of parliament passed conUi containing ning i very cry extraordinary provisions directing that nil all ilia minor and miny many even of the more important passing under tinder it should Bli for ilia future be authenticated ly by a paper p apor wafer of moderate mod crato size which should be ba on tho instrument and bo be deemed and taken to bo be the great real acal itself tile great seas lias has only three times thries been bien lost twice temporarily and once pel permanently james 11 on leaving tile the kingdom on hii abdication threw tile the seal ical into tho the thames whence however lio vever it was waa next morning flailed up tip ond and brought bion glit to whitehall lord eldon burled buried it ft lit in his garden in in queen square during ond ono nlelio when his house bre are as 03 lie thought in tile loii it night might tio bo stolen and writes the chancellor in hit his diary when the fire v vois as extinguished I 1 quite forgot in ili tho the morning where I 1 had buried it and while vio the carriage waited to ule uke me to ourt my lady and I 1 and till all the household were dig digging ing with places pieces of stick etick til tillieo liyo luckily found it Lord Thurlow who always held it during daring the m night olit in his bedroom bed bell room had it actually carriel olt off by burglars from whom ivilou tt it vasi va never never recovered A privy council was called the next day a now new seal was rapidly made mil ind during the remainder of hig contina inco in ollice office lord loid invariably Je posited it under his pillow down to 1817 the tha great seat itself itsel was waa biajo of copper since bince then silver 1 liaa I coarr bee been alio to metal I 1 c employed up loyed it la Is in i i five tn 0 halves somewhat Bome what like hka two very thick bright tut tm sauce saucepan pari lids lida fitting closely tog together ethert their inner surfaces Barf acis sculptured with the royal roial devices in n tended to be ormed formed on the wax when between themi them instruments having a limited duration are sealed scaled with yellow wax others supposed to exist in perpetuity such as patents of peerage tc are exemplified under green wax ind in the caso case of or some nome letters patent likely to bo be exposed to a good deal of knocking about 4 or journeying from place to place rach as wore tile the ossiea commissions the tha wax seal was stamped after being in ingeniously in cream colored leather new york observer |