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.