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Alote on a Seal of Hudgershall. 
By Rev. CuristopHer WorpswortTH, M.A. 
HE Rev. C. Sladen, of Alton Barnes, Wilts, possesses a small 
brass seal of the usual oval or vesical shape, measuring 
12in. x lin. It represents the Aynus Dei (“ Lamb and Flag”) 
with the legend > siqiL D’ NEVSM : DE LOTEGARHALL. 
Lotegarhala, or Ludgershall, near Bicester, Bucks, was an alien 
hospital connected with Santingfeld, in Picardy, “Santinegfelda 
juxta Wytsand,” and (together with that of “Farle juxta Lectonam,” 
in Bedfordshire, which also was connected with it), the property 
was made over by King Henry VI. to King’s College, Cambridge, 
in 1448. 
_ An experienced antiquary, Mr. James Parker, suggests (in a letter 
to the Rev. F. F. Morgan, Rector of Ludgarshall, near Aylesbury), 
that sIGIL pD’ NEvsm might possibly stand for “Sigil/wm domine 
Virginis Sancte Marie.” In which ease it might probably have 
belonged to St. Mary’s Church, in Ludgershall. That is certainly 
the dedication title of the Buckinghamshire Church, as St. James 
is said by Mr. Parker to be of that in Wiltshire. 
_ As it has made its appearance so near our Ludgershall, it is only 
jatural that we should wish, if possible, to connect it with our 
‘tshire neighbourhood.! 





In Dugdale’s Monasticon, vol. vi. (part i1.), p. 639, there is mention 
[ one “ Brother John Rokele, master of the hospital of Farley and 
otegarshall” (from Prynne, lil., p. 591). — a charter of mo 


1 The person from whom Mr. Sladen got the seal professed to have got it 
from a soldier who brought it from abroad.” The fear of the law of treaswre 
ove makes it often difficult to get a precise statement of the facts of findings. 
