Sloughter, bears date 3lst May, 1690.4 It served as the model for all the Great Seals of New-York subsequently received from 'England, and has, on one side, the effigies of the King and Queen, and two Indians kneeling offering as presents--the one, a roll of Wampum, the other a Beaver skin. Around the circumference are their Majesties titles--Gviimtmvs III. er Marta. II. Den Gra. Mac. Brit. Fray. His. Rex er Recina. Pip. Der. On the reverse are the Royal Arms with the Garter, Crown, Supporters and Motto, and this inscription--Sremivm Province. Nosrr. Nov.

1 Valentine's Manual of the Com. Counce. of N. Y. for 1849. 343.

2 Lond Doe. V. 139. 3 Counc. Min. V. 213. 4 Book of Commissions, Sec'ys Off. II. 16.

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Esor. etc. iv America. These arms are, it will be remarked, the same as those on the Stuart seal, with the addition, however, of an escutcheon of pretence, containing a Lion rampant, for the arms of Nassau, of which house King William was a member. It has some other peculiarities worthy of attention. Much importance has been attached to this seal from the fact that it was affixed to several patents in this country after the King's death. But the objections made, to the validity of those patents, on that account, must disappear when the fact is understood, that this seal was not superseded until Sept., 17/5--three years and a half after the King's demise. The engraving is from the Seal attached to the original Charter of Trinity Church, N. Y., 1697, in the State Lib., and to the Commission of Johannis Abeel, Mayor of Albany, 1694, in the Albany Institute.