^42 Notes on Encaustic Tiles at Reyieslnry Ilotise. 



Huiigerford family. The late Canon Jackson ' states, that Walter, 

 Lord Huiigerford, the High Treasurer, seems to have been the first 

 of his family to use as a badge the garb between two sickles ; on 

 the seal of one of his earlier deeds is a talbot^s head as badge, 

 similar to the crest on the monument of his father. Sir Thomas, in 

 the chapel of Farleigh Castle. 



According to Sir E,. C. Hoare,^ the Dean's register contains a 

 notice of the foundation of a small chantry in the Church at 

 Heytesbury, by Walter, Lord Huugerford, who presented a chaplain 

 to it on May 15th, 14!JL Later references are made to two chantries 

 said to be on the south side of the Church, one belonging to the 

 Hungerfords at the altar of St. Mary ; the other founded by William 

 Mounte at the altar of St. Katharine, supposed to have been in the 

 south transept. 



In 1438 an inquisition was held at the instance of Walter, Lord 

 Hungerford, respecting the chantry of St. Mary, when it was found 

 that the right of patronage was in the said Lord Hungerford. 

 There was a house, seven acres of arable, three acres of mead and 

 corn, and pasture for one hundred sheep ; the whole yearly value 

 being 40*. The Bishop,^ in 1442 gave license for uniting to the 

 said chantry the chantries of St. Edmund in Calne Church,* and 

 Upton Scudamore, also the Free Chapel of Corton, in Hilmarton.^ 



Across the north arch of the tower is a fine fifteenth century 

 stone screen bearing devices of the Hungerfords, and within the 

 noi'th transept are some remains of an altar-tomb to one of that 

 family of late Gothic work, about the time of Henry VIII. Other 

 parts of the same monument that were found here, were removed 

 when the Church was restored, to Farleigh Castle, and are pre- 

 served in the chapel there. 



There is every reason to suppose the tiles were from the flooring 



' Farleigh Guide, p. 21, note. 

 2 Modern Wilts, Heytesbury Hundred. 

 3 William Ayseough, Bishop of Salisbury 1438—50. 

 ■* Pounded by Sir Robert Hungerford, 1336. See Jackson's Aubrey, page 

 32, note. 



^ Jackson's Aubrey, page 108, note. 



