. Memorials of old Birmingham. est theleft hand is the seal of the Monks of Tykeford; the nexttowards the right is that of the Bishop of Coventry andLichfield; the next is that of Sir John Birmingham. Theseal nearest the right hand is the seal representing allthe inhabitants of Deritend and Bordesley, but it is the per-sonal seal of Robert o the Grene. This I am able to proveby comparing it with the seals attached to the ancient pri-vate Deeds that have come down to me together with TheOld Crown House. I may therefore say, without presump-tion, that Robert o the Grene thus stands before us, ac
. Memorials of old Birmingham. est theleft hand is the seal of the Monks of Tykeford; the nexttowards the right is that of the Bishop of Coventry andLichfield; the next is that of Sir John Birmingham. Theseal nearest the right hand is the seal representing allthe inhabitants of Deritend and Bordesley, but it is the per-sonal seal of Robert o the Grene. This I am able to proveby comparing it with the seals attached to the ancient pri-vate Deeds that have come down to me together with TheOld Crown House. I may therefore say, without presump-tion, that Robert o the Grene thus stands before us, acknow-ledged by all the freeholders and inhabitants of Deritendand Bordesley of his own time, as well asby the Bishop of the Diocese and the Lordof the Manor of Birmingham, to be the manwhose seal is to be accepted as a true andsufficient attestation to a record made in thename and on the behalf of all the inhabi-tants of Deritend and Bordesley. Such having been tlie case,it will be an interesting memorial- of Old Birmingham to. 62 A SEAL CUT OFF. give here an outline of this seal of Eobert o the Grene. Hisname will come before ns more than once again. It will be seen that an empty space is left between the sealof the Monks of Tykeford and that of the Bishop. Whenthe document was executed, this space was unquestionablyfilled with the seal of the Vicar of Aston. The place forholding the strip of parchment on which the seal was put, andwhich passed through the fold in the parchment of the docu-ment itself, is plainly seen in the facsimile. It is certainthat this seal A¥as once in its place; and it is equally certainthat it has been removed, not accidentally but is physically impossible, from the way in which one endof the doubled strip whereon the seals are put is always split,and the other end passed through it before the sealing, that,even if the seal were ever so much broken, the double stripitself could have dropped out by accident. The inference is,that either
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