the svea court of appeal in the early modern period 360 by three coronets, one above and one on either side of the shield. There is no royal crown above the shield. This seal was used continuously during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries1054 and up to the autumn of 1818.The last impressionwhich I have found is from 20 August 1818.1055 There seems to have been at least two dies of this seal, because the ornaments around the shield differ slightly.1056 In other aspects, the seals are the same, and there are no iconographically relevant differences. The seals were used as paper seals as well as for wax.1057 At some time, a smaller seal was made. The great seal was used both on judgement and decision documents and to seal letters, but the smaller seal seems to have been used only to seal letters. Since it seems to have been used only for wax, it is difficult to find a seal of this type which remains intact. I have not been able to establish when these smaller seals were designed. In the first version, the shield was the same as in the great seal. The coronets around the shield were, however, replaced by royal crowns, one larger above the shield and two smaller on its sides. The crown above the shield has thus become a royal crown of the type normally seen on shields, but the function of the two crowns on the sides is not understandable. Below the shield is a compartment from which two palm fronds emerge. The legend is the same as in the great seal and runs from one side of the 1054 E.g., RA, Justitierevisionens arkiv (hereafter JRA, Archives of the Justice Revision), Besvärs- och ansökningsmål, resolverade utslagshandlingar, vol. 10, 1668, letter from the court, 24 October 1664; RA, JRA, Besvärs- och ansökningsmål, resolverade utslagshandlingar, vol. 8,1665, letter from Seved Bååt, 17 Nov. 1665; RA, SHA, E I:1b, Sandeman fol. 2v as to 1699. 1055 Landsarkivet at Uppsala (Regional Archives), Letters from his Royal Majesty and other central authorities 1818, Provincial Chancellery (Landskansliet), D I:148, Konungens befallningshavande/Länsstyrelsen, Uppsala län (Archives of the Lord Lieutenant), Svea Court of Appeal, Decision 20 Aug. 1818 on the trial of the ploughman Jan Andersson of Sixarby. 1056 Cf. a document issued by the Svea Court of Appeal in a question about the execution of the judgements of the court, RA, JRA, Besvärs- och ansökningsmål, resolverade utslagshandlingar, vol. 10, 1668, Oct. 24, 1664. 1057 See, e.g., Lund University Library, Parchment no. 140, certification of 1634 of a copy of a letter patent of Charles I of England and Scotland. see illustration 7, page 389 The Smaller Seals of the Svea Court of Appeal
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