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Description: | Incomplete lead four-part alnage or subsidy seal stamped with a crown over a fleur de lis between the letters E R, therefore during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). "Lead seals were put on commercially produced cloths as part of a complicated system of industrial regulation, known in England as the alnage, under which quality control and the levying of tax of a few pence per newly manufactured cloth was administered until 1724." (Egan in Saunders 2001, p.43) So this seal shows that an alnager, who was an officer of the crown, had given his stamp of approval: that the tax had been paid and the quality of cloth was good enough for the market.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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