The articles that follow is an attempt to identify the owners of 19 bottle-seal fragments from English glass wine bottles and to provide some insight into the practice of bottle-sealing.

Letter to Sir David Kirke, from Charles I of England, dated November 11, 1648, and dealing with planters, names, and the English Civil War (1642-1648).

Letter to Sir George Calvert (later Lord Baltimore) from Edward Winne, dated August 26, 1621.

Extract from Acts by the Privy Council, dated June 14, 1639, and dealing with planters, food, and material culture.