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list which I have already published, viz., Matilda de Montefort, 
who is shown, by documentary evidence, to have been abbess in 
1351. 
Another matter of interest, though not strictly archeological, has 
been brought to my notice quite lately, which it may be well to 
mention now. I had long desired to ascertain who was the designer 
of the hall, built about 1756, which is a very remarkable attempt 
at a Gothic revival. My attention was called to an article! by the 
Rey. George Miller, in the Banbury Guardian for June 20th of 
the present year (1895), in which, speaking of Kineton Church, 
Warwickshire, he says that transepts appear to have been added to 
that Church in 1775, and that they were designed by Mr. Sanderson 
Miller, of Radway, in that county, who also designed the hall at 
Lacock, in Wiltshire, and “made other improvements to that house.”’ 
I have not seen the documentary evidence for the statement, but it 
is supported by the fact that the arms of Miller? of Radway appear, 
in a conspicuous position, in the hall. 
1“ Rambles on the Edge Hills and in the Vale of the Red Horse, chap. viii.” 
2T long ago noticed that the arms (azure four mascles in cross or) were 
identical with those of Miller, of Radway, but, knowing of no possible connection 
between Lacock and that family, I could not suppose that they were intended for 
their arms. They face the arms of Longespee, and the explanation appears to 
be that Ela Longespee founded the abbey and Mr. Miller designed the hall. 
Mr. George Miller, however, makes a mistake in stating that the Rev. William 
Talbot, Vicar of Kineton, was brother to Mr. Talbot, of Lacock. He appears to 
have been eldest son of Sharington Talbot, third surviving son of William Talbot, 
Bishop of Durham (Collins’s Peerage, fourth edition, vol. vi., p. 197), which 
would make him third cousin to Ivory Talbot. 
