35S On the Succession of the Abbesses of Wilton, Sfc. 



a half-length figure in adoration. Legend S MAIORITATIS 

 BVRGI DE WILTO. Olive green wax. (Plate, No. 3.) 



A fragment o£ a second seal also remaining, in green wax, probably 

 that of the Probate Court. 



5. Quit-claim by Thomas Tydolueshide [Tilshead] to Sibil [Aucher'] Abbess 

 of Wilton, and the Convent of the same of his common of pasture for 16 cattle, 

 200 sheep and 27 pigs, and of all other his common of pasture whatsoever on the 

 soil of the said Abbess within her manor of Chilmerk. Witnesses, Sir Thomas 

 West,* Laurence de St. Martin.f William de Bermygham, knights, Walter atte 

 Berghe Nicholas de Bonham, John de Harnham,J Eichard de Vernoun,§ William 

 Waspail, and many others. Dated Chilmark, Thursday, after the Feast of St. 

 Matthew the Apostle [21th Sept.] 38 Edw. III. [1364]. Latin. 



Small round seal, bearing a shield of arms, three wolves^ heads 

 erased. Legend SIGILL'V WILL'I TIDOLSIDE Sigillum 

 Willelmi Tidolside. Red wax, sunk in green. (Plate, No. 9.) 



In the legend of the seal attached to the next document (No. 6) 

 there is some indistinctness in one of the letters of the name ; it 

 should probably be read Upton. There is Upton Lucy in the Chalk 

 Valley, also Upton Lovel, near Heytesbury ; both these Uptons at 

 an early period became the property of the Abbess of Wilton. John, 

 de Upton was owner of the estate at Upton in Berwick S. John in 

 1343. He was also concerned in some dispute relating to the deer 

 in Cranborne Chase in 1346. Hoare's Hun. Chalk, p. 94. 



6. Quit-claim by Nicholas de Bonham to John de Belameslonde and William 

 Hughe, chaplain, of all the lands, tenements, etc., which they and he had lately 

 by grant from Thomas de Tydolueshyde within the towns of Chilmarke and 

 Neotheramptone [Netherhampton]. Witnesses, Thomas West, Laurence de St. 

 Mai-tin, William de Bei-myghem, knights, Henry Stourmy,|| Walter atte Berghe,^ 



• Sir Thomas West held lands at Wyck near Tisbury, also at Fonthill and Swallowcliff. A short 

 account of the family of West will be found in Hoare's Hun. Dunworth, p, 68. 



+ This Lawrence de St. Martin was son of Sir Lawrence Martin, who possessed Steeple Langford 

 and held property at Knighton. He died in 138G. See Hoare's Hun. thalk, p. 142. 



t John de Harnham held lands at Britford. See Hoare's Hun. Cawdon, p. 48. 



? Richard de Vernon, of Horningsham, was living in 1333. Hoare's Hun. Heytesbury, p. 48. 



II Henry Stourmy of Wulfhall and Figheldean, was at this time sheriff of the county, which office 

 he filled for five years, from 1361 to 1366. He died in 1381-2, and was probably son of Henry de 

 Esturmey, who was possessed of the ma lor of Cowsfield Sturmy at his death in 1349, See Hoare's 

 Hun. Frustfield, p. 75. His seal will be found engraved in Wiltt Mag., vol. 2, p 387. 



H Walter atte Berghe was bailiff to the Bishop of Salisbury in 1360. For a long series of years 

 the bailiffs of the Bishops of Salisbury took precedency of the mayors of the city,. 



