Ancient Seal of Worcester
After being lost for half a century, the seal of the Corporation of Worcester has been found at Rouen, in Normandy. The antiquity of this seal is not so curious, perhaps, as the locality where it has been found. The device is a church, surrounded by a wall, having battlements on it, and round the device is the inscription—“SIGILLUM COMMUNE CIUIVM WIGORNIE,” with something like the date “952.” The figures, however, are very indistinct, though it is supposed by a writer in the “Worcester Herald” that they may refer to the date of King Edgar’s reign, who was a great friend to the city of Worcester, and might have fortified it about that era; but then the use of figures was not adopted in England, or in Europe generally, till some centuries after the date assigned.