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Obverse. The King wearing mantle and tippet and pleated ruff, and (Hunter Blair) the collar of the Garter, his left hand holds a cross-topped orb, his right a sceptre flory. The throne has a flat back (diapered lozengy with roses and fleurs-de-lis in the compartments, and scroll-work) with fringed and tasselled canopy, over which is a winged cherub, animals’ heads are at the corners (Birch). On the dexter side of the throne, a lion sejant crowned supports a banner blazoned with a cross paty fitchy (arms ascribed to CADWALLADER, last King of the Britons); on the sinister side of the throne, a unicorn sejant, gorged with coronet (not clear on this impression) and chained, supports a banner charged with a cross paty between five birds (not seen on this impression), the arms ascribed to EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. In field (diapered lozengy, each space charged with a quatrefoil ?); above each animal, a large shield: quarterly, 1 and 4. Quarterly, FRANCE (Modern) and ENGLAND; 2. SCOTLAND; 3. IRELAND. The arms of Scotland appear for the first time on a royal seal, following the union of the crowns. (Cinquefoils form the stops of the legend).