Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
A Massachusetts session-laws volume of acts and resolves passed by the General Court, published in Boston by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and catalogued with a 1663 date. Its pictures are small woodcut-style vignettes of the state seal: a shield bearing a standing archer with bow and arrow, a star, a pine-cone-like tree motif, and the Latin motto ensis petit placidam sub libertate quietem beneath a laurel-wreathed roundel. A designer could take from them the look of an official state emblem, with its heraldic symmetry and dense horizontal hatching.
