Mostly when seals are found in Wales, the enquirer gives a precise grid reference. About 10 years ago, a finder brought two seals for identification, but was vague about their find spot, other than it was on the Halkyn Mountain in Flintshire. The one matrix is readily identified, as a business or ad causas seal of Richard Edenham, a Friar Minor, but also Bishop of Bangor for nearly 30 years, from 1465 to 1494 (Fig. 14.20). The legend tells us that this was his seal for affairs in the deanery of Dyffryn Clwyd, which until the mid-nineteenth century formed a detached portion laying within the diocese of St Asaph. The seal shows the bishop in a typical stance, standing mitred and vested under a gothic canopy, his right hand raised in blessing, pastoral staff (turned outwards) in his left hand.³⁰ In base, there is a shield: three crowns in pale. The legend reads:

S’ : Ricardi : bang’ : epi / s : difr[y]ncloyd : ad : causa

The second seal which came in from Halkyn Mountain includes in its corroded legend the words ‘Mary, Mother of God’. This has not been as yet positively identified, but it could be a capitular seal rather than an episcopal seal.³¹