BSG.CS.01502 — Cloth Seal, Sandwich, Cinque Ports

Found in the Canterbury area, 25 x 25mm.

...LV / XXXIII= // (three) lions rampant and ships dimidiated and conjoined

Tubular cloth seal probably for Sandwich.

“In 1561 a group of families, numbering 406 persons, were allowed to settle in Sandwich. They apparently came from London, being ‘planted’, upon the Queen’s order, with the purpose of ‘repaire to our said towne and porte of Sandwich’ through textile production and fishing.” [Harte, N.B., 1997, p.218, Holderness, B.A., pp.217-243]