Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . ut I have found in the archives of our owncity several impressions of the same seal, attached to charters and sealsof cause, in more perfect condition — one in 1445; another, nearly ahundred years after, in 1551; another in 1605, appended to a deed ofagreement among the incorporated trades of Glasgow for the supportof St. Nicholas Hospital, with a ratification by the provost and magis-trates; and another relating to the same hospital in 1606. I subjoin acopy of the last-mentioned impression. This ancie
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . ut I have found in the archives of our owncity several impressions of the same seal, attached to charters and sealsof cause, in more perfect condition — one in 1445; another, nearly ahundred years after, in 1551; another in 1605, appended to a deed ofagreement among the incorporated trades of Glasgow for the supportof St. Nicholas Hospital, with a ratification by the provost and magis-trates; and another relating to the same hospital in 1606. I subjoin acopy of the last-mentioned impression. This ancient seal continued in use till 1647, so that even assumingthat it was not made earlier than 1325, the date of the first documentto which it has been found appended, it must have been in use for thelong period of three hundred and twenty-two years. I have carefullycompared the different examples, and I am satisfied that the oneattached to the charter of 1606 is impressed from the same die that wasused in 1325. In 1647 this seal ceased to be used, and a new one of a totally 96 City different design was adopted in its place. The change is so complete,indeed, that the two seals have hardly a single feature in common. The bishops head is dis-carded; the miraculous branchis promoted into a full-growntree; and the salmon, hithertoupright, is placed in a hori-zontal position. The arrange-ment of the emblems isalmost identical with whatnow appears on the city arms—the only difference beingthat thetree is represented era-dicated, without any mound,and that the salmon is in thenatural position, and not onits back. The representationhere given is copied from animpression appended to a charter in favour of the incorporation ofHammermen in Glasgow, dated i6th July, 1650. This seal continued in use for one hundred and forty-three years—a long period also—longer in proportion, perhaps,than that of the previous seal,if judged by the greater numberof impressions \\hich must havebe
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