Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia
Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia is a published record of the colonial Virginia legislature, edited by H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy and issued in Richmond by the Virginia State Library, covering proceedings from 1619. The pictures show a column of signatures made as crude 'his mark' crosses, loops and strokes beside the word 'mark', and a round royal seal with a crowned shield flanked by a lion and a unicorn and the Latin legend GEORGIVS. A designer might take from them the hand-drawn authenticity of illiterate signatures and the formal heraldic seal layout.
