356 On tlie Succession of the Abbesses of TfiUon, Sfc. 



3. Graut by Eichard de Waledene to William de Tydolueshyde [Tilshead] and 

 John, his son and heir, of all the lands, tenements, etc., which he had bj' grant 

 from Richard Beaufo in the town of Chylmark [Chilmark], together with all his 

 pasture in the same town : the same to be held in perpetuity from the chief lords 

 of the fee by the grantors and the heirs of the said John in lail, with remainder, 

 in default, to Robert, his brother, and his heirs in tail, and in default, to the said 

 William, and his heirs or assigns. Witnesses, Thomas de Havenebare, William 

 de Colyngborne, Robert Bigge, John Olyver, Geoffrey Mauduyt, John de Bru- 

 desarde, William Gerard, and others. Dated, Chylmark, Thursday, the Feast of 

 St. Mark the Evangelist [25th April], 18 Edw. II. [1325[. Latin. 



Small round seal, bearing a lion's head enraged, between three 



indistinct charges, possibly owls. Brown wax. (Plate, No. 8.) 



The following document (No. 4), which is preserved in the Wilton 

 corporation chest, has already been printed in its original Latin form, 

 together with some other Wilton charters; these will be found in 

 the seventeenth vol. of the Journal of the Archaeological Association, 

 p. 311. This Will shows the close connection between a layman of 

 the middle of the fourteenth century and the Church. In addition 

 to the mayor's seal, the remains of another, probably belonging to 

 the Court of Probate, is attached. It bears a portion of a standing 

 figure, together with a few letters of the legend, but are too in- 

 distinct to be made out. 



The seal of the Mayor of Wilton, used in 1348, is probably not 

 the first made, but it is the earliest now known. In the other Wilton 

 document (No. 10), dated 1416, a new seal of the mayor appears, 

 somewhat larger and less well made. The silver matrix of the 

 mayor's seal now in use is circular, with the same subject of the 

 coronation of the Virgin, probably late in the fifteenth century. 

 This, together with the fine common seal of the borough, still used, 

 is engraved in Hoare's Hundred of Branch and Dole, p. 67. In re- 

 engraving the seal, the subject was apparently less distinctly given, 

 for at the Herald's Visitation for Wilts, in 16^3, the following was 

 allowed to be the arms of the borough : Two Saxon kings seiant in 

 Gothic niches, crowned, with sceptres in their hands, &c. In the 

 Town Hall of Wilton is an old painted and framed representation of 

 the seal with the subject so given in the form of two nondescript 

 figures, crowned and seated under Gothic niches. It is somewhat 

 curious that a misrepresentation of the personal seal of the mayor 



