Seal Detail

The seal of Thomas Estcourt, made of silver and with double matrix, separated by a roughly symmetrical double-baluster bar, the larger matrix engraved with the arms of  Estcourt quartering Beaubois together with an outer inscription reading:

SIGIL. THOMAS EASTCOVRT: AR:

The smaller shows a crest of the family. 

Arms: Quarterly 1st and 4th Ermine on a chief indented gules three estoiles of (for Estcourt) 2nd and 3rd sable a fess between three eagles' heads erased or (for Beaubois)

Crest: Out of miral coronet azure a demi-eagle wings expanded proper beaked or (for Estcourt)

The seal is that of Thomas Estcourt(born circa 1570, died 4th of July 1624), of Estcourt and Lasborough Park in the county of Gloucestershire who was elected as the MP for Malmsbury in 1597 and later elected as MP for Gloucestershire in the year of his death in 1624. Thomas was an educated Magdelan College, Oxford and was called to the Bar at Greys' Inn  in 1593. He served as the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for the year of 1607. This was the same year he was knighted by King James I and VI at Whitehall Palace on the 6th of November. Thomas married Mary Savage, the daughter of William Savage of Elmley Castle in the County of Worcestshire.

Seal Specification

Height:  43mm

Diameter of matrix:  28mm x31mm & 18mmx20mm

Weight:  60g