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(16) The seal of Nicholas Longespée has two shields of arms, 
one defaced ; but upon the sinister side are his own arms, six lioncels 
rampant in pile, as on the famous tomb of his father in our Cathe- 
dral. A long sword with point upwards stands between this shield 
and the pastoral staff, as a rebus upon his surname. He is described 
as “annosus,” and must have been at least ninety-five years old at 
his death in 1297, if he visited his father in his last sickness as a 
priest, in 1226, according to the story which is found in Cassan and 
elsewhere. 
(17) The figure of Simon de Gandavo stands in a beautiful 
erocketted niche, at the back of which are the sides of a gable end 
ofa Church. This seal has no arms. 
(18) That of Roger de Mortival has a crescent and star at the 
beginning and end of the legend, and six cinquefoils pierced, three 
on each side of the field of the seal, which represent his own device. 
His arms are said by Riland Bedford on the authority of Nichols’ 
Leicestershire, to be Ar. a cinquefoil sable, pierced of the field. 
(19*) The seals of Robert Wyvill, the recoverer of Sherborne 
Castle, who sat for perhaps the longest period of any of our Bishops 
(1830-1875), d.e., forty-five years, represent three stages of his 
promotion. The first is his seal as official of the Church, that is, 
I suppose, as appointed to administer its affairs, sede vacante. This 
is a round seal with the legend :— 
8S’ ROBI WYVILL PRESBytERI ET OFIC BEATE MARIE SARUM. 
In the centre, which is made up of elaborate tracery, is a shield with 
the arms of Wyvill, as upon his well-known brass, in the north 
chapel of the Cathedral, viz., a cross fretty between four mullets of 
six points. The appointment of such an official is directed by an 
ordinance of Abp. Boniface, dated 1262, cuntained in our statutes. 
The canons who may be present when the vacancy is known to have 
occurred are to nominate three or four of the canons of the Church 
of Sarum, out of whom the Archbishop or his officer (if he is absent) 
is to choose one. (See Dayman and Jones, Statutes of Sarum, p. 19, 
1883). If this explanation of the legend is correct, we shall have to 
suppose either that Robert Wyvill held a canonry here, which is 
