122 Certificate of the Town Gild of Malmesbury. 
Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III.; (3) France Ancient; (4) 
England; (5) Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans—Argent, 
a lion rampant gules crowned or, within a bordure sable bezanty; (6) 
De Burgh—Or, a cross gules. 
In the space and time at my disposal I have not been able to do 
more than touch the fringe of a subject which ought to be of great 
interest to all Wiltshire people, and especially to such a Society as 
that which I have had the honour of addressing; and I venture to 
hope that if I have been so fortunate as to arouse any interest in 
the heraldry of Salisbury Cathedral my words may induce someone 
more competent than myself to take this important subject in hand 
and treat it in the way it deserves. 
Certificate of the Toton Gild of Italmesbury, 
(Public Record Oflice—Certificates, Xe., of Ceuilys. 
Chancery No. 443.) 
SHE accompanying certificate is the only existing example 
for the county of Wilts of the returns made to the king 
in council by order of parliament, as to the ordinances, wages, 
properties, &c., of English Gilds, 12 Rich. I., A.D. 1389. 
Canon Jackson mentions in his History of Malmesbury (Wilts 
Arch. Mag., vol. viii.) the deed by which king Athelstan gave land 
to the burgesses of Malmesbury, about the year 930:—“I give 
and grant to them that royal heath near my little town of Norton 
for their aid given me in my conflict with the Danes”; and in 
a note to J. Aubrey’s account of Malmesbury (p. 252) says 
that Malmesbury Common was enclosed and allotted by act of 
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