488 The Societys MSS. C'li/p Pijpard, Bupton. 



against all men forever; for this acknowledgment, &c. Walter de Pavely, 

 Joan and Walter son of Walter de Pavely gave the said John 200Z. 



Feet of Fines, Wilts. File 29 (2), 



The original notebook of the Visitation of Wilts in 1623, printed 



by the late Dr. Marshall — the only copy of this visitation to hand, 



does not contain any arms for the name of Pile. The following 



note accordingly, from Addit. MS., 5524, printed in the Genealogist 



(vol. 24, p. 64), is the more interesting : — 



" Sir Gabriel Pile of . . . co. Wilts, died Nov. 1626. A shield under 

 the hand of W. Camden, Clarencieux, dated 1616. 1 and 4, Arg. a cross 

 between four piles (or passion nails) Gu. 2, Arg. three bugle horns stringed 

 in pale Gu., garnished Or. 3, Gu. two bars per fess indented Arg. and Az. 

 Impaling for his wife — Gu. five wings displayed Arg. Crest — on a mural 

 coronet Gu. a pelican Or, vulning herself of the first." 



The second and third of the.se coats are assigned in heraldic 

 dictionaries to the names of " Horn " and " Frene " respectively. 

 Thus the quartered coat is the complement of the pedigree. 



The following abstracts of the inquisitions taken on the death 

 of Sir Gabriel Pile, knight, and of Sir Francis Pile, baronet, his son, 

 will serve, perhaps, to illustrate the advisability of not resting con- 

 tent when such enquiries are on foot with the volume of Liqiiisitiones 

 Post Mortem for the reign of Charles I. issued to Members of this 

 Society. ExcelleJit as it is, there is no warning prefixed as to its 

 limitations. Here are two inquisitions possessed of every quali- 

 fication for admission. They fall within the reign ; they relate to 

 Wiltshire; but unfortunately they relate to Berkshire as well. 

 As Berkshire inquisitions they figure in the official lists, and the 

 responsible editors were not apparently at the pains to investigate 

 the matter and correct such misleading attributions. It is a pity, 

 but doubtless it should not diminish our gratitude for what we 

 have received : only there can be no objection to the giving of the 

 warning here, that the volume is incomplete. 



The inquisitions themselves serve very fitly as the conclusion of 

 the above notes upon the history of Bupton ; for just as the 

 " schedule " with which they began is in reality the record, though 

 unsatisfactory and imperfect, of the building up of the Pile estate 



