iMEDI^EVAL PAVEMENT AND WALL TILES OF DERBYSHIRE. 1 33 



the shield missing in the others— indicating that in the interim, 

 this portion of the stamp was broken off. 



The accompanying plates have been reduced by photography 

 from filled-in transfers of tracings of actual tiles, corrected from 

 blurs and distortions incidental to the process of drying and firing ; 

 but care has been taken to interfere as little as possible with the 

 pattern as it left the stamp. When more or less conjecturally 

 restored, it will be duly noticed. The Derbyshire localities are 

 given in larger type. 



Plate A. 



Copied from tiles at Dale Abbey and Morley, where they all occur 

 as tnlatd tiles. 



1. Bell with emblems of SS. Peter and Paul. Stamp intended 

 for smaller tile. Dale. Repton (Kiln). Wirksworth. 

 Cossington.* Leicester + (All Saints'). Lenton. Nottingham 

 (Talbot Inn and elsewhere).+ Thurgarton.§ York (S. Mary's 

 Abbey. 



2. Monkeys, piping and dancing. Dale. Morley. Wirks- 

 WOrth. Aldgate.ll Burton-on-Trent. Coventry (St. Mary's Hall). 

 Kegworth. Leicester (All Saints' ; St. Mary's). York (St. Mary's 

 Abbey). 



3. Two birds, regardant. Stamp for smaller tile. Ash- 



bourne. Dale. Morley. Wirksworth. Coventry (St. 

 Mary's Hall). Leicester (St. Mary's ; All Saints'). Markfield.U 

 York Minster. 



4. Geometrical design. Stamp for smaller tile. Dale. Mor- 

 ley. Aldgate. 



5. Inscription— "GLAVDVILE." Dale. York. 



6. Geometrical, dotted. Stamp for smaller tile. Dale. 

 Wirksworth. York. 



* Leicestershire. 



t All the Leicester tiles I have personally examined 



Several from the same place, preserved in the Castle Museum, Nottingham 



S Mottingharashire : a series of these tiles engraved in the "Journal of the 



British Archaeological Association," Vol. VIIL 



!i Leicestershire. II Rutland. 



