_Shakspeare's Seal._--Some years ago, when in Warwickshire, a wax
impression of a seal was given to me by a gentleman as that of William
Shakspeare. The gentleman had no means of verifying its authenticity,
beyond the bare but positive assurances of the person from whom he had
received it, an inhabitant of Stratford.
The appearance of the seal is not against the hypothesis of its
genuineness. It is circular: the device is the well-known ornament called
the _True Lover's Knot_, cut somewhat rudely in intaglio, apparently in
steel; a favourite ornament in Tudor architecture from the time of Anne
Boleyn downwards.
Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." encourage me to believe in the
genuineness of this relic?