By the late Rev. Edward Wilton, M.A. 73 
the ringers for two short peals upon the six bells, one at break of day, and the 
other after sermon in the afternoon, 6s.; 20s. to be spent at a friendly meeting 
of his Trustees therein named, and such of the better sort of the parishioners 
as they should think fit to invite in the evening of St. Paul’s day, to promote 
peace and good neighbourhood, and preserve some little regard to the memory 
of his honoured parents :* 20s. to be yearly disposed of towards the teaching” 
of some poor children to write and read, whose friends were not able to pay for 
their schooling ; 20s. to buy four bibles with common prayer, to be given also 
yearly on St. Paul’s day to such four poor persons in the said parish as in the 
opinion of the Vicar or his Curate were most likely to make the best use of the 
same, and were least able to buy such; and the remainder of the clear produce 
of the said legacy, to be given away yearly and every year, after prayers and 
sermon on the said St. Paul’s day in the said Church. among so many poor 
people of the said parish, to be nominated by the Vicar, or in his absence the 
Curate, as it would reach to, at twelve pence each. 
In the year 1742 the survivors of the trustees named in Bishop 
Tanner’s will, invested the legacy of £200 in the purchase of land 
in Patney in the county of Wilts. 
At the foot of the Bishop’s Monument in Christ Church Cathedral, 
are the arms of the See; impaling, Tanner of Cornwall; Argent, 3 
Blackamores’ heads couped; banded gules. The same arms are in 
the Quadrangle at All Souls, with those of other Bishops of that 
College, painted on the plane of the sun-dial. Tanner, we know, 
used them on his official Seal, upon being made Chancellor of 
Norwich ; they are also in cast-iron on the entrance gates to the 
Bishop’s Chapel, Norwich Cathedral: impaled with those of his 
first and second wives; again, under the portrait prefixed to the 
second edition of the Notitia, published after the Bishop’s death. 
I mention this, to correct a mistake in Dr. Bliss’s new edition of 
Wood’s Athenee, Oxon: vol. ii. where Fasti begin, column 1. 
Against an Initial T., rests a coat of arms, which in the Table of 
References to woodcuts in vol. iv., is described as Bishop Tanner’s. 
Itis not his, but as it embodies the coats of two distinct families of 
* It is to be hoped that this annual festive “ Obit” in memory of a learned Divine has always been 
conducted with becoming decorum. But from a brief and somewhat peremptory letter which I have 
found among Mr. Wilton’s MSS. I am inclined to think that now and then there may have arisen a 
**rixa super mero.” The writer, a high parish official, sends thus to the Landlord of the Green 
Dragon, Lavington, where the entertainment was to take place: ‘‘As a list of the guests invited to 
commemorate the memory of Bp. Tanner has*not, for some years, been even presented for Mr. 
’s inspection, or approbation—he now particularly wishes, as a Trustee of the Legacy, to 
know who the Guests are and what there is for Supper ? together with an Inspection of the Book 
of Proceedings, or Report, ever produced on this night. Evening ot Jan. 25th, 1817.7 Iam afraid, 
that upon that * Evening,” there was a storm at the Green Dragon! [J. E. J.] 
