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Donations to the Auseum and Aibrary. 
The Council of the Society have the pleasure to acknowledge the following 
Donations. 
By R. C. Lone, Esa. :—A ponderous iron implement found among the ‘‘ Grey 
Wethers” at Clatford, with some fragments of iron found under some of the 
stones. [It has been suggested that this implement is the representative of 
the modern fold-bar. At periods when iron was scarce and valuable, such a 
form as this would be used, attached to a long wooden handle; it is super- 
seded by the pointed iron bar of modern times. ] 
By Mr. J. ELten :—The Poll- Book of the Wilts Election of 1818, 
By J. Yonez AkerMAN, Ese. :—An account of excayations in an ancient 
cemetry at Frilford, Berks. 
By J. Mayzr, Esq., F.S.A.:—A paper ‘‘on Public Libraries, &c.,” and an 
address to the Historic Society of Lancashire, by the donor. 
Ancren? TILE FounD at Mitton. 
Mr. Huncerrorp Penruppocse has presented to the Society, an encaustic tile 
found at Milton, near Pewsey, Wilts. It has on ita shield of arms, sable, a cross 
engrailed ermine; in the first quarter, a crescent argent. A learned member 
of the Society has supplied the following information on the subject :—‘‘ Mil- 
ton Church and the manor of Fyfield, belonged to Cirencester abbey, co. 
Gloucester, and in the list of Cirencester abbots, I find William Wotton, 
who died 1440. In Burke’s Armoury, the arms of the last Wotton but one 
are given as ‘sable, a cross engrailed ermine.’ The crescent we may presume 
to be a mark of cadency; that is, it was added to the family arms to show 
that Abbot Wotton was asecond son. The tile, no doubt, formed part of the 
decorations of Milton Church, and was placed there during the time when 
Wotton was abbot of Cirencester abbey—perhaps about the time when the 
church was restored and newly paved.” 


Erratum. 
In the reference to the Wetherell bequest, p. 217 in the last number of the 
Magazine, it was stated that Mrs. Wetherell was the sister of the late Dean 
Merewether. This is not correct, the Dean was the son of an elder half-brother 
of the late Sergeant Merewether. 
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