Battlefield Church, Salop: an historical and descriptive sketch / Together with some account of the battle of Shrewsbury, and foundation of the college or chantry

by W. G. D. Fletcher

The Seal of the College.

Dukes, in his Antiquities of Shropshire, gives an engraving of the College Seal. It represents the Blessed Virgin crowned, the Child in her right hand, in her left a palm branch. On the dexter side a Shield of Arms, Quarterly France and England. On the sinister side, a chevron engrailed between three birds. Over each shield a sword erect. The legend being,—“S. Commune-Domini. Rogeri. Ive. primi. magistri. et. successorum. suorum. Collegii. Beatæ. Mariæ. Magdalenæ. juxta. Salop.” This was probably the first seal of the College.

Roger Ive, in 1444, complains that it had been fabricated, and orders a new Seal for the College,—In the centre, the image of the Holy Trinity, with the image of S. Mary Magdalene on the dexter side, and of S. John Baptist on the sinister side, at their feet the image of Roger Ive kneeling. The legend to be the same as before. I do not know that any impression of this second Seal has been preserved.