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SEALS AND CORPORATE INSIGNIA
LYNN (KING’S LYNN)
KL2c Seal of the Mayor of Lynn, Obverse: St. Margaret trampling the Dragon, Arms of Lynn: Azure three dragons heads erected and erased, from their mouths as many crosses crosslet fitchy or. Inscription: sigillum decretum maioratus lennie. After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). KL2a Seal of the Borough of Lynn, Obverse: St. Margaret trampling the Dragon: SUB MARGARETA TERITUR DRACO, STAT CRUCE LAETA. After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). *KL2aa Wax Impress of Seal of the Borough of Lynn, Obverse: St. Margaret trampling the Dragon: SUB MARGARETA TERITUR DRACO, STAT CRUCE LAETA. KL2b Seal of the Borough of Lynn, Reverse: Eagle, Symbol of St. John the Evangelist On scroll in eagle’s claws IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM. On border, SIGILLUM COMMUNITATIS LENNIE. After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). *KL2bb Charter of King John granting the priviledges of Lynn. KL36 Minutes of Council of the Borough of Lynn, 1 January 1432, text of letter sent to the Prior of Norwich requesting that St. Nicholas be granted authority to perform baptisms, marriages, and the “churching” of women (a ritual of purification after childbirth). After E.M. Beloe, F.S.A., Our Borough: Our Churches: King’s Lynn, Norfolk (Cambridge, 1899). |