BSG.CS.00742 — Cloth Seal, Norwich, Mayors Seal, 1590

Found in Norfolk, 13mm.

C N / 1590 / T P // possibly lion rampant

A Norwich seal from a series bearing the initials of the mayor, in this case Thomas Pettus. When he died in 1608, Thomas Pettus, left £20 towards the stock for setting poor people on work in Norwich, and £50 each to be lent to poor worsted and poor dornix weavers.