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Return of the Borough Seal

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{Play}A surprise presentation for the Town Council


On Monday, 23 January our Mayor, Councillor Lisa Farrell expressed profound thanks to Mr Nigel Kerton and to a “Good Samaritan” member of the public for the return of the ‘lost’ Seal of the Borough Council. The Common Seal stamp (impressed into warm sealing wax to officially ‘seal’ documents), still in its original box, had passed through various hands in the past 50 years after a former mayor had taken it home for safe keeping.

It eventually passed into the hands of a civic-minded member of the public, who took it to Mr Kerton.  Nigel agreed that it should be returned to the Town Council, perhaps for display in the town’s museum.  

 

a man and woman stand in a room, holding a box and a brass stampNigel Kerton returned the seal to the Town Council at a Full Council meeting on 23 January 2023
a wooden box with brass handle and key escutcheonThe box for the seal. Sadly the key is missing
a wooden box with the lid raised. Inside there is a metal stamp in a velvet surroundThe seal inside the box
a brass plate engraved with a crest and writing around the edgeClose-up. The seal would be stamped into hot sealing wax to seal documents
borough-seal-reversed-squareWe've flipped the photo so you can read the words

 

The seal is engraved with the Borough Arms and the wording reads "The seal of the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Marlborough 1836". 

The Borough is first mentioned in 1086 when it paid a third of its revenues to the Crown.  Read more at https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol12/pp199-229 

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