Swan marks of Lincolnshire Size:XS: 40 x 30cm seated at a writing table

seated at a writing table holding a quill in his right hand

Anniversary meeting of the charity children in St Paul's Cathedral

with a two-wheeled cart drawn by an ass

Mr Gladstone became Prime Minister

Swan marks of Lincolnshire Size:XS: 40 x 30cm seated at a writing tableNine swan marks issued by the Crown to landowners in the county of Lincolnshire, England, including to 'Sir John Hossye Knyght' [eg Sir John Hussey]. The marks illustrated here were incised in the beaks of the birds by a swan herd. The names of those with grants of swans are noted in the margin by each painted mark. Page 4 from Royal Society manuscript MS 106, a register of swan marks, kept by the Queen's swan herd, possibly a member of the Towneley