HAIR IN SEALS.
Stillingfleet, referring to a MS. author who wrote a chronicle of St. Augustine, says:—
He observes one particular custom of the Normans, that they were wont to put some of the hair of their heads or beards into the wax of their seals: I suppose rather to be kept as monuments, than as adding any strength or weight to their charters. So he observes that some of the hair of William, Earl of Warren, was in his time kept in the Priory of Lewis.