Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . a half. Theancient seals of the burgh, bearing the date when they were made, 1430, are engraved in Laings Catalogue of Scottish Seals, plate1xxix, p. 208.—Seven seals of the Gordon family, good examples of!the art of the last century.—His Grace the Duke of Richmond. Impression from the seal of the sub-dean of Chichester. Thelmatrix, which is of brass, was found, about the year 1840, in a field]between the two parishes of Cholderton and Newton Toney, the borders of Hampshire, forty or fifty
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . a half. Theancient seals of the burgh, bearing the date when they were made, 1430, are engraved in Laings Catalogue of Scottish Seals, plate1xxix, p. 208.—Seven seals of the Gordon family, good examples of!the art of the last century.—His Grace the Duke of Richmond. Impression from the seal of the sub-dean of Chichester. Thelmatrix, which is of brass, was found, about the year 1840, in a field]between the two parishes of Cholderton and Newton Toney, the borders of Hampshire, forty or fifty miles from adjoining parish of Amport, Hants, is a living belonging to thel|chapter of Chichester. The most populous parish in Chichester, inwhich also the Close is situated, is that of St. Peter the Great, orthe Sub-deanery, and until a recent time the north transept of thecathedral was used as the parish church. The living is a vicarage,the vicar being designated the sub-dean. In the cathedrals of Lincoin, Exeter, and Salisbury, the sub-deans have estates held oi. p. 643. The fine matrices of the seal of It is stated that they were found in anBoxgrave, figured Archceologia, vol. xxvii, earthen vessel in Bonners Fields, Hack-p. 375, are now in the British Museum. ney. Minutes Soc. Antiqu., vol i, p. 101. MUSEUM AT CHICHESTER. 1853. 329 Jiem, as of other dignitaries, and a similar privilege appears origi-jally to have belonged to the sub-deanery of Chichester. In thefahr Ecclesiasticus, temp. Henry VIII, vol. i, p. 296, the Firmaarochie sub-diaconatus Cicestr. may be found, giving a de-?ription of the lands and the amount of rental. The seal, ofpinted oval form, measures one inch and auarter by four-fifths of an inch; it bears thegend, *s svbdecani cicestrie. In the upperirt appears a demi-figure of St. Peter, the patron[int of the cathedral; and below is a demi-trare of an ecclesiastic, whose hands are raisedI supplication. The matrix is in the posses-ion o
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