By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 283 
the first glance we should assign the tomb, which is that of a female, 
with what are described generally as the arms of “ Long impaling 
Berkeley quartering Seymour,” to about 1540. In both instances 
the date would be certainly forty or fifty years before Wraxall and 
Draycote were held by one and the same person. 
On the supposition that the badge really belongs, in the first 
instance, at all events, to Wraxall, can we give any account of it? 
I think we can—as the following extracts will show. 
In the Shaftesbury Chartulary (Harl. MS. 61), in its account of 
“Wrokesham” (as Wraxall is there designated) as part of the 
manor of Bradford, the whole of which belonged to that religious 
house, we have, at fol. 82, the following entries respecting the 
tenants there :— 
« Wittetuus Bepet tenet unam hidam pro xx solid. pro omni servicio et 
dimid, virg. terre p. servic. de Bedel.” A 
‘“‘OsBeRTUs SprRLine tenet dimid. virgat. pro qua debet sequi hundredu et 
comit. justic, et summonicones per totu hundreda, et ad comit. testificari.” 
These extracts, as we judge from internal evidence, relate to about 
the year 1250. They show that at that time one William Bedel, 
who seems to have assumed as a surname that of the office which he 
held, was possessed of two portions of land, one consisting of 
one hide, another of half a virgate, the latter being appurtenant to _ 
the office of “Bedel” or “ Bailiff” of the Hundred of Bradford. 
There was another small holding of half a virgate possessed by 
Osbert Sperling, as appurtenant to the office of what is in a sub- 
sequent survey called that ot “ Serjeant” of the Hundred of Bradford. 
The duties of these functionaries consisted, amongst other things, 
in carrying out the machinery of the court of the Hundred, and en- 
foreing its decisions. It is not difficult to see how appropriate a 
badge of such an office as the bailiff of the Hundred held would be 
the “ fetter-lock.” 
In a survey of the manor, of the date 1630, we find the following 
entries, which mutatis mutandis seem but a translation, with some 
additional particulars, of the extracts above given from the 
Shaftesbury Chartulary. In the index to this survey, the office held 
by Daniel Yerbury, which exactly corresponds with that held some 
