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Excerpt from Seals Coenwulf (died and one or two other of the early kings and magnates, but the real revival in this country dates from the reign of Edward the Confessor (died. After whom, there is an unbroken series of the seals of Sovereigns down to the present day. Except, however, for sovereigns, the use Of seals was not common until the reign of Henry I., and cannot be said to have become general until that of Henry II. The absence of seals in pre-conquest England, as compared with their more general use on the Continent, may be illustrated by a statement of Thomas of Elmham, in his history of the monastery of St. Augustine at Canterbury,1 where he says that Ethelbert and other kings thought it enough to place the sign of the cross on their charters and not to use wax seals. He goes on to state that among the muniments at St. Augustine's none'was sealed with a wax seal except one of Knut until after the Conquest, but that all were only signed with the cross. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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