20 CARVED PANELS FROM THE OLD HOME OF THE BABINGTONS. 



sisting of coats of arms, badges, and other figures, is still preserved 

 in many of the windows at Sutton Place, near Guildford ; amongst 

 which is a curious rebus of the Weston family, which was 

 interpreted and explained for the first time by Mr. William Henry 

 Black, F.S.A., upon the occasion of the visit of the members of 

 the Surrey Archaeological Society on July 7, 1864. It appears also 

 on many parts of the exterior, executed in terra cotta. It is a vine 

 leaf with a bunch of grapes in conjunction with a barrel or tun. 

 Mr. Black reads it in Norman French — the grapes as UVES ; the 

 ' UV ' in which is equal to ' VV ' or ' W,' UVES thus becomes 

 'WES/ and the tonne or tun completes the name WESTON." 



In this panel, however, the tree bearing the grapes or clusters 

 is planted in the tun — hence, according to this interpretation, we 

 shall obtain the word WES-IN-TUN, or Wessington, the name of 

 an adjoining township to Dethic. 



I can find no traces of an alliance of the Babingtons with the 

 Wessington family, but the device may refer to some connection 

 of the Dethics with a neighbouring family of this name, which 

 alliance would naturally be perpetuated by the Babingtons as the 

 heirs of the Dethic family. 



The second panel (PI. I., No. 2) has a Phoenix rising from its 

 ashes within a conventional wreath. The folding of the wreath 

 above is probably not without its significance. The bird will imply 

 resuscitation, and the wreath duration. 



The third panel (PL I., No. 3) is very interesting, and, taken with 

 the first, corroborates unmistakably its Babington origin. At the 

 top of the panel is the head of a baboon. In its mouth is a flute, 

 dividing itself a little below the voice-hole (formed exactly like 

 that of a child's modern whistle) into two curved and diverging 

 pipes, each showing five recorders or finger-holes. The pipe for 

 the right hand has three above and two below. In the pipe for 

 the left hand this order is reversed. These pipes, combined with 

 pomegranates, form a sort of canopy to the principal compartment, 

 which contains a cockatrice rampant, with three claws and a spur 

 on each foot ; its dragon-like tail is curved over from beneath. 

 Whether the bird is intended to be rampant or " saltant," I 



