354 On the Succession of the Abbesses of Wilton, ^c. 



to John Goldrun,* burgess of Wilton, and Johanna, his wife, of two acres of 

 arable land, held hy the Hospital bj grant from Ralph Harvey and Matilda, his 

 wife, lying at la Fouleflowe in the field of Wasserne [Washem], between land of 

 the Abbess of Wilton on either side : the same to be held in perpetuity for a 

 pa^-ment in hand of 36s. Sd., and a yearly service of a rose at the Feast of the 

 Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Witnesses, Hugh de Wyly, steward of the 

 Abbess of Wilton, Thomas Linginere, bailiff of Wasserne, Robert Bede, Robert 

 de la bame, John, son of Eadmund Goldrun, Ralph Hervey, Robert Chapelein 

 and others. Xlllth Cent. Latin. 



Oval seal, bearing a full-length figure, the right hand holding a 



staff, the left in front of the body, holding a book. Legend 



[EGI]DII . AB[BATIS] ? Sigillum Sancti Egidii 



Abbatis. Brown wax, the head, feet, and left side of the figure 

 broken away. (Plate, No. 10.) 



Attached to the next document a considerable portion of the seal 

 of the Abbess Matilda de la Mar is preserved (plate. No. 5), as well 

 as the old conventual seal of the monastery (plate, No. 2). This 

 well-known seal of the Abbey of Wilton is one of the few existing 

 examples of Anglo-Saxon seals. It has been engraved by Sir R. C. 

 Hoare and fully described and figured in the Archseologia, it is 

 noticed in Dugdale and again by Sir F. Madden in the thirteenth 

 volume of the Journal of the Archseological Institute. There is 

 some doubt as to the exact date of this seal bearing the name of 

 Eadgythe. The engravings above-mentioned were made up out of 

 two imperfect impressions then known ; one of these was taken from 

 the Harleian charter in the British Museum, already referred to in 

 the notice of the Abbess Matilda de la Mar ; the other impression 

 was taken from the instrument of surrender by the last Abbess in 

 the reign of Henry VIII. As the label of another missing seal is 

 attached to this Harleian charter, the editors of the New Monasticon 

 suppose that it might have been a second conventual seal of the 

 monastery, but there can be little doubt that the seal wanting was 

 that of the abbess herself. They also ascribe a wrong date — that 



• The name of John Golrund is found amongst other tenants of the Earl of Cornwall at Wilton 

 concerned in a dispute relating to some foreign resident at Wilton who had gone without license to 

 sell and buy at the fair at Britford, third tdw I— 1275. Hoare's Hund. Cawden, p 52. A John 

 Goldron or Goldre also occurs as one of the persons returned Irom Wilton to serve in the Parliament 

 at Lincoln, twenty-ninth Edw. I.— 1301, 



