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is nowhere visible. Neville was a young man and of noble birth, 
and possibly he did not at first feel strongly about his own office. 
He was chosen by the Pope in opposition to the Chapter. The 
legend is also the first that has a surname—Stqulum Roberte 
PNebrlle Det qra Sareshirtensis ept. Mr. Hope notices that 
in his collection William of Wykeham (1367) is the first Bishop who 
has a surname on a seal, and the next Thomas Fitzalan, of Arundel, 
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1396. But de Grandisono runs across the 
Exeter seal of 1327, above the shield of arms, and several Scotch 
Bishops have surnames at a much earlier date. With usthe custom 
began late, and did not take root at once. Beauchamp has a sur- 
name, but not Ayscough or Wydville. 
(27*) The seal of William Ayscough (1437--50) chaplain and 
confessor of Henry VI., who was murdered at Edington in Jack 
Cade’s rebellion, is one of those which represent the religious con- 
ceptions of the period in a remarkable form. Above is the Eternal 
Father, lifting both hands in blessing. On a central throne are the 
Blessed Virgin, crowned, with her hands in prayer, and our Lord 
blessing with his right hand and his left holding a cross, which 
tests apparently on a ball. Between their heads hovers the dove. 
To right and left are saints appearing behind the thin pillars of 
niches; below isthe Bishop. On the dexter side the arms of France. 
and England quarterly, and on the sinister side those of Ayscough, 
or Ascough, a fess between three asses passant. 
(28) ‘The seal of Richard Beauchamp (1450—82) represents the 
Blessed Virgin, crowned and sceptred, holding the infant Saviour, 
who is also crowned; to the right is St. Catharine with the wheel, 
to the left perhaps St. Catherine of Sienna, crowned, holding a lily. 
Below is the Bishop. The dexter shield bears his own arms, as over 
the door of his chapel, now removed to the north chapel (a fess be- 
tween six martlets), but with a bordure with fleur-de-lys. The 
sinister (as I learn from a learned correspondent, Mr. A. T. Everitt, 
1Mr. A T. Everitt writes from High Street, Portsmouth :— Robert Wishart, 
Bishop of Glasgow, 1272 -1316, and William Fraser, Bishop of S. Andrew's, 
1279—97, along with the two succeeding ere of St. Andrew’s, have their 
surnames on their seals.” 
