Armorial binding stamps of Archbishop Whitgift

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Binding stamps with the arms of Archbishop John Whitgift (c. 1530–1604)

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device A
50 x 40 mm
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device B
97 x 80 mm

Arms of Archbishopric of Canterbury, impaled with arms of Whitgift
(on a cross flory four bezants )

The books with these arms were duplicates from the library at Lambeth Palace, given to the Cathedral Library by Archbishop William Sancroft c. 1680 (Benefactors' Book CCA Lit.MS.E40, ff.108v and 115r).