. Chronicles of colonial Maryland : with illustrations. at Arms, of which a representation is here given, was used in connection with the Land Office. There is now in that office, a warrant attested with this seal. to lay out land in Somerset County, for George Gale, and which concludes as follows: given under his Lordships Lesser Seal at Arms, this 14th day of May, An. Dom. 1740. But the most interesting, perhaps, certainly the one lesscommonly known, of the smaller Seals, is the one which formeda part of the plate used in printing the paper money ofthe Province. It contained the escutcheon o
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. Chronicles of colonial Maryland : with illustrations. at Arms, of which a representation is here given, was used in connection with the Land Office. There is now in that office, a warrant attested with this seal. to lay out land in Somerset County, for George Gale, and which concludes as follows: given under his Lordships Lesser Seal at Arms, this 14th day of May, An. Dom. 1740. But the most interesting, perhaps, certainly the one lesscommonly known, of the smaller Seals, is the one which formeda part of the plate used in printing the paper money ofthe Province. It contained the escutcheon of the Great Sealas well as aJl of its other heraldic devices, but bore the motto.Crescite et multiplicamini—a motto first introduced into.Maryland, as far as the records disclose, in 1659, it havingappeared on the coin struck for Maryland at that time. The Hall, p. 25. Scharf, i, p. 198—Note.. 230 COLONIAL MARYLAND accompanying impression of this little Seal, it may be interest-ing to note, is not made from acopy of it, as would be necessarilythe case with printed impressions ofother Seals of the Province, but, through the courtesy of its owner, is here reproduced from the originalitself, just as it was blocked and usedfor stamping its impression on the money of its time. Asbearing upon the later history of this valuable relic, see notebelow.^ When the Revolution swept away Proprietary rights inMaryland, and the state government was established, it was ^ This interesting relic is now in the possession of Mr. John E.McCuske, of Annapolis. It was found, he informed the author, underthe following curious circumstances: by direction of the State Treas-urer, about fifteen years ago, he was having a window placed in the endof the rear wing of the old Treasury Building, at Annapolis, and aftercutting through the outer wall, he encountered an inside wall, aboutthree feet distant. In