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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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displaying St. Andrews cross. The inscrip-tion reads: S: officii maiorafcus vil: et hund: de Ten-terden. The next is a smaller one of brass, and has a shipwith sail set and bearing a coat of arms. Round the vergeis this: Sigillu officii maior ville hundrede de Tenterden.Another brass seal is no doubt the oldest, being the seal ofthe Bailiff. It represents a ship and arms almost similar tothe last, but the engraver made a sad muddle of the inscrip-tion, which, as he rendered it, reads thus : Sigillv ofharBvllnv ville f bundrede de Tenterden ; this was no doubtintended for Sigillum officii ballivi ville et hundred deTenterden. A fuller and more detailed account of the sealsmay be seen in Boys History of Sandwich, pp. 822-3 ; theyare also referred to in an article on Civic Maces byGeorge Lambert, F.S.A., which appeared in the Antiquary * Itm, for two newe maces wth the amies of the State, the one a very smallpockett mace weighing 15 oz, 3d weight ... 7 7 6. (Chamberlains Account, 1652.)
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TENTERDEN SEALS: 1 Bailiffs Seal. 2 and 3 Mayors Seals. THE MUNICIPAL RECORDS OF TENTERDEN. Ill for 1880, pt. i., 66, and in English Municipal Heraldry by W. H. St. John Hope in the Arclueological Journal for1896, vol. 54, p. 179. The latter account is of interest, andis quoted here because it supplies an expert account of theheraldry:— On the reverse of the Tenterden seal, which dates fromthe charter of 1449, is a shield in base where the arms of theCorporations are usually placed, bearing on a bend betweenfour lions heads erased, three estoiles of eight points. Theseare the arms of Thomas Petlesden, who was the first bailiffunder the new charter. Despite their obviously personal cha-racter, it is curious to find that their position in the place ofthe corporate arms should have led to their subsequent use asthe arms of the town ; at any rate they are displayed as suchon the sail of the ship which forms the device of the seven-teenth-century mayoralty seal. On the seal of 1449 the s

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