By the Kev. C. Soames. 83 
As thou passest by, offer many prayers for them 
And for their eight sons, and as many daughters, 
Including in your prayers the dear College (or Chapter) of Sarum. 
Out of their obit Wansborough’s Curate shall have 
Fourteen shillings (which obit he shall duly observe 
On the Lord’s Day following the birth of the Mother of our Tord) 
From the tenant of Ellerms and of Hall Place, Wanborough.” 
There is another inscription on a brass in Wanborough Church, 
from which it appears that the Polton family were the chief con- 
tributors towards the erection of the tower which was begun in 
1485 ” ; Philip, the Archdeacon, and Agneta, his sister, are mentioned 
by name. Kite’s Brasses. 
_ [Nors.—Since p. 53 was in print I find it stated in “ 4 Few 
“Facts concerning the Parish of Pewsey, by Bertrand P. Bouverie, 
MA., Rector,’ that the Thomas Polton, Rector of Pewsey, 1401-3, 
whom I had supposed to have been a contemporary, was the testator 
“himself—in that case he may have held, successively, all the other 
pieces of preferment mentioned. } 
[Note which should have been inserted om page 62 :— 
__ “Master Sampson greatly assisted us at this time by his remarkable piety, 
for he not only remained fasting for five days, during all which time he peram- 
‘bulated the holy places and shrines of the city, commending our cause to the 
pilgrims and other devout persons there, giving alms also to all needy persons, 
whether they craved them or no, so that the fame of his good works was noised 
abroad throughout the city (of Rome).” Cowrt Life wader the Plantagenets, 
by Hubert Hall, p. 108.] 
E, As to the use of the corporal (note, p. 56), see the Bishop of 
Sarum’s charge, 1891, pp. 191-2-3 ; from the quotations there given 
it appears that it was used to cover the chalice, as well as to place 
under the elements, at the period when the testator lived. 
