244 Notes on Encaustic Tiles at Heyteshnry House. 



No. 4 is a very general device of this family ; unlike the other 

 tiles here the field is of white clay. It should also be noticed that 

 the sickles are represented with saw-tooth edges; this is interesting, 

 as being an example of the original form of that implement, which 

 only gave place to the now generally used reaping hook about sixty 

 years ago. 



No. 7 is a supporter of the Hungerfords, and represents a raven 

 volant collared and chained. 



No. 9. The garb between two sickles, the most general crest of 

 the Hungerfords, was — as previously stated — introduced by Lord 

 Walter, the High Treasurer ; so it fixes the date of the tiles as not 

 earlier than his time. 



There are a few other patterns so worn as to be almost untraceable. 



The following is a list of the numbers of each pattern now re- 

 maining : — 



No. 1. — Two angle tiles, seven side and one centre. 



No. 2. — Sixteen angles, forty-eight side and twenty-one Hunger - 

 ford arms, as in the centre. 



No. .S.— Fifteen. 



No. 4. — Fourteen. 



No. 5.— Two. 



No. 6. — One angle and six sides. 



No. 7. — Eleven. 



No. 8. — Two (one broken) . 



No. 9. — Twenty-five. 



*^* The plates, as will be seen, have inadvertently been reproduced from the 

 full-sized drawings to two different scales, but all the tiles are about the same 

 size, namely 4|in. square; except that with the Wyvill arms, which is 6in. 

 square. 



