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The Loving Cup is represented by a small silver tankard 5|in. 



high X 4iin. in diameter at the base. It has on the lid :— 



WILTON 



BVRROVGH 



1693 



and on the front a shield of the town arms (really the arms of 

 England), ifnre lions pnsmni gvardani in pale, mth the conventional 

 stifi-leaf palm branch mantling of the period. It bears no hall- 

 marks. It is of the usual type of small domestic tankards of the 

 time. 



The Seals. The Old Common Seal is a pointed oval in shape, 

 2i in. long. The matrix is of brass. Under a triple canopy a 

 representation of the shrine of S. Edith in the abbey at WHton, with 

 a shield of the arms of England above one end and an angel with 

 a censer issuing from the clouds. Below, in a round-headed niche, 

 is the half-length figure of an abbess. The legend reads (with a 

 sprig after each word) : — 



"Sigilltt' romunp bwrgcnsi Ue iiattlton/* 

 Its date is put by Mr. St. John Hope at the beginning of the 

 fifteenth century. 



The older Mayor's Seal is a circular one, 1 -fg in. in diameter, 

 the matrix of silver, of early fifteenth century date, under a triple 

 canopy with a shield of England over the central pediment, a 

 representation of the coronation of the Yii'gin, with the legend :— 

 " g : majarttattS : tiurg He toilton." 



The later seal is also circular, the matrix of steel, with ivory handle. 



[Mr. St. John Hope also notices as in possession of the corporation 

 the ancient fifteenth century seal of the Hospital of St. GHes, the 

 charity of which they have administered since the Eeformation. It 

 is a pointed oval 3iin. long, mth a rude figure of St. GHes as 

 Abbot, holding a crozier with a hind wouuded by an arrow leaping 

 xip against him, under a canopy, the legend being :— 



" S' tiomiijS climo.siinavc jsci ©gc^i 1«Vta iiatlton "j 



