By C. EB. Ponting, F.8.A. 231 
that village was begun in 1352, and there is very little doubt it was 
built by him, as the style of architecture is the same which the bishop 
was at that very time beginning to introduce as a novelty into 
Winchester Cathedral. On the walls are to be seen the crosses 
which were sprinkled by the bishop at the dedication. 
Edington was a noble benefactor to the Cathedral, and began the 
great work of re-building the nave, but, not living to finish it, he 
left by his will a considerable sum of money with which William of 
Wykeham was enabled to carry it on. 
The “ Somerset Herald” states that there were three coats of arms 
assigned to William de Edington, but as to these he should un- 
questionably take the evidence of his seal, especially when confirmed, 
as it is, in two instances within his Cathedral. These arms are — 
on a cross engrailed, five cinquefoils, but whether the field is lozengy 
or merely diapered, he cannot say. According to Burke the arms of 
Edington Priory, Wiltshire,’ are:—on a cross engratled gules, five 
cinquefoils of the field. The examples of the bishop’s shield of arms 
in the Cathedral are on the course above the arch facing his chantry, 
and also on a boss of the second bay from the west in the north 
aisle. The second coat of arms assigned him was :—asure, two lions 
passant or, in a bordure argent, which is emblazoned on one of the 
windows in the County Hall. The other is :—azure, two lions 
passant guardant, argent, within a bordure gules. The seal is a small 
circular one; its device is the bishop kneeling to S. Catherine under 
an elegant canopy, and his arms on a shield in base, Jive cinquefoils 
on a cross engrailed ; yound it, Sigillum Willelm Wi ‘yntoniensis epi. 
Round the marble slab of the tomb, on an inlay of brass, is a 
Latin inscription, which can be thus translated :-— 
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William, born at Edington, is here interred, 
He was a well beloved prelate, and Winchester was his see, 
You, who pass by his tomb, remember him in your prayers ; 
_ He was discreet and mild, yet a match for thousands in knowledge and sagacity, 
4 He was a watchful guardian of the English nation ; 
A tender father of the poor, and a defender of their rights. 
To one thousand, add three hundred, with fifty, ten, five and one, 
Then the eighth* of October will mark the time when he became a saint. 
’ There was recently a piece of glass in North Bradley Church with these arms. 
* Canon Jackson gives the date as the seventh of October, 1366, 
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