360 On the Succession of the Albesses of Wilton, Sfc. 



and gave them to John Folyot and Jhone [Joan], his wife, cousin of Sir Eenaud, 

 and the heirs of Iheir bodies, with reversion in default ;— that John Folyot had 

 three daughters, of whom one was a "munechon," the second, Margerie, married 

 Eoger Payne's father and bore Eoger and Nichol, and the third Emmote, married 

 Henry Dun, and bore Walter and John ; that afterwards Eoger Payne married 

 Marione, Walter Dun's bastard sister and by her had Eobert, born in "spoushod," 

 and Lettuce and Alice, bastards, of whom Lettuce was married to John Janeqnin 

 and had Ansteise and Mold ; that Eoger [Payne] and Eobert [his son], the 

 rightful heirs, died without heirs and the land therefore came to Walter Dun ; — 

 that Walter Dun married Margerie, who survives, and by her had Eobert, in the 

 case of whose death without heirs the lands revert to Sir Eenaud of Eemmesbury. 

 Deposed in presence of Matilda [de Bokeland] Abbess of Wilton, Henry Haver- 

 sham, Mayor, John Cole, Nicholas Vyniter, Thomas Wysdom, and Henry Bount, 

 of Wilton ; and attested by the seals of the Prioress and of the Borough of 

 Wilton, at the request of John Eammesbury, Thursday before the Feast of St. 

 Hilary [13th January] 49 Edw. III. [1375]. 



Attached is a pointed oval seal, bearing a full-length figure of 

 the abbess, with a crozier in the right hand and a book in the left, 

 standing within a finely-carved Gothic niche ; below, a shield of 

 arms, (gules), three lions rampant (argent), on a canton (sable) a 

 fret (or). The legend and remainder of the seal, destroyed. Dark 

 green wax. (Plate, No. 6.) 



The seal of the borough is entirely destroyed. 



10. Testament of the Mayor, Burgesses, &c., of Wilton, that John Mundy, 

 of Wilton, is a burgess and member of the Merchants' Guild, and, by virtue of 

 royal charters to the borough, quit of all toll, passage, panage, pontage, murage, 

 brithot, chidwyte, yaregive, kenerage and scotale. Dated, Wilton,. Thursday after 

 the Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist [25th April], 4 Hen. V. [1416]. Latin. 



Attached is an oval seal (l^in. xli^in.) the design an inferior 

 copy of the seal (plate. No. 3), apparently without the half-length 

 figure in adoration. Legend S. MAIORITATIS BVRGI DE 

 WILTON. A bad impression, in red wax. 



A second seal has entirely perished. 



11. Grant by Cecilia Bodenham, Abbess of the Monastery of Wilton, and the 

 Convent of the same, patrons of the prebend or rectory of Staunton, in the diocese 

 of Salisbury, to Thomas Legh, LL.D., of the right of presentation to the said 

 prebend or parish Church when it shall next become vacant. Dated, Wilton, 7 

 May, 28 Hen. VIIL, 1536. Lati7i. 



Seal of Wilton Abbey as in plate, No. 2. Legend + SIDIL-t 

 EADDXDE RELAL ADELP.E. 

 Cicely Bodenham was a nun in the Priory of Kington S. Michael 



