_Hair in Seals._--Stillingfleet, referring to a MS. author, who wrote a
chronicle of St. Augustine's, 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_."--_Orig. Brit._, chap. I., _Works_,
Lond. 1710, tom. iii. p. 13.