The Musewn. 269 
By Mr. Howirr, Devizes :— 
Chart Compass, engraved with name of ‘‘ Cap, Jxo Kempthorne”; also 
his Arms and Crest. Supposed to be the Rear Admiral Sir John Kempthorne 
of 1665. 
By Mr. Wueeter, Warminster :— 
A living plant of the ‘ Carduus tuberosus,” or Boyton Thistle. See 
“Wilts Magazine,” vol. III, p. 249. 
By Mr. Baxer, Warminster :-— 
A collection of Fossils, from the Upper Green Sand and Chalk of the 
neighbourhood. 
In addition to the above list, many other articles of considerable interest were 
contributed by the Society from the Museum at Devizes. Amongst these a 
a series of casts and impressions from the Seals of the various Monastic and 
other bodies, formerly existing in the county, of which a list is here appended, 
deserves especial notice. Many of these casts are from the collection of the late 
John Caley, Esq., and were presented to the Society by the Rev. John Ward, 
rector of Wath, Yorkshire. 
Seal of Richard Beauchamp, Bishop of Sarum, from a deed of A.p. 1470, 
by which the Vicar of Steeple Ashton is to have the Tythes of Semyngton. 
Seal of the Vicar-General of Sarum, in red wax. 
Seal of the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Sarum, in red wax. 
Seal of the Vicars Choral of Sarum. 
Seal of the Treasurer of Sarum, from an impression attached to a deed 
of 4.D. 1274.—Chapter House, Westminster. 
Seal and Counterseal of Robert Bingham, Bishop of Sarum, [1228—46] 
from an impression in the Duchy of Lancaster Office. 
Counterseal of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum, from the same. 
Seals of Robt de Doryngton, Rector * of Lacock, and of Richard de Bello, 
Canon of Sarum, from impressions in the Chapter House, Westminster. 
Seal of the Hospital of St. Nicholas, Sarum, from an impression in the 
Duchy of Lancaster Office. 
Seal of the College of St. Edmund, Sarum, from a Matrix on red wax in 
the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 
Seal of the Weavers of the City of New Sarum. 
Seal of the Official of the Archdeacon of Wilts, 4.p. 1466. Probate. 
Chapter House, Westminster. 
Seal of the office of Alnager Co. Wilts, 17 Edw. III.: ‘8.’ Suns: 
Pannorum rn Com: Wir1s.” 
Seal of the Priory of Bradenstoke, Wilts, from an impression attached 
to the Surrender, dated Jan, 8, 1539, [30 Hen. VIII.] in the Augmentation 
Office. 
Seal and Counterseal of the Priory of Bradenstoke, from the Augmentation. 
Office. 
*This name does not occur in the list of Lacock incumbents, printed in Bowles and Nichols’ 
“ History of Lacock Abbey,” p. 299—301, which includes only the Vicars commencing a.p, 1220, 
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