3-008-687 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir Thomas More's seals, 1862. 'We are enabled to present to our readers Engravings of the seals of Sir Thomas More. The larger one is of silver, bearing his arms and crest, and an inscription. The smaller one - his private seal - is engraved on cornelian, and bears on the scroll around the shield the inscription Christiano Catholico R, and below the R, on the end of the scroll, which is bent back, the name of More. These seals, together with the "George," and a gold relieved pectoral cross, and the hat and cap of Sir Thomas More, were given to the English College at Liège by Father Thomas More, the last male descendant of Sir Thomas, who was Provincial of the English Province of the Society of Jesus at the suppression of the order. When the college was transferred from Liege to Stonyhurst, in 1794, these relics of Sir Thomas More, together with many other valuable objects of historical interest and art, were brought over, and are now carefully preserved in the College Museum. At the present moment, by the kindness of the Rector of the College, they are on view at the Special Art Exhibition at South Kensington'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.