1620 SIGILLVM SOCIETATIS PLIMOVTH NOV. ANGLIA Mug

SEAL OF THE PLYMOUTH COLONY. Under the administration of Sir Edmund Andros, in 1686, the original seal was taken from the archives and never restored. It represents four men kneeling with implumed hearts in their hands, and the legend Plimouth Nov-Anglia Sigillum Societatis, 1620. Not until 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers founded Plymouth Colony at Cape Cod Bay which only encompassed a small part of New England. The company of financiers and colonists of the enterprise used a seal dated 1620. The seal of the Plymouth Colony was sent over to the colony by the London Adventurers as early as 1624, but it may not have been used before the issuance of the Warwick Patent of 1630. It remained in use as long as the colony maintained its independence and was used on official documents and in outline, on the second edition of the Colony Laws published in 1685. Attempts by several antiquarians to read significance into the meaning of the four naked kneeling figures and the doubtful object (bouquet, bunch of tobacco leaves, plumed heart) that they are holding have been unconvincing.

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