MEMORIALS OF THE ItECTORY OF LIMINGTON. 7 



There are also two ancient pews, (which jn-obably oncc 

 formed part üf a screen), some of the panels of which con- 

 tain carvecl armorial shields, with the bearings of the 

 houses of York and Lancaster. (Plate 2,fig. 5). Another 

 coat is, quarterly, first and fourth six mullets, second and 

 third a fret, and underneath a cypher, W.C., which has 

 been explained by Collinson as Wolsey Cardinal, but as 

 the arms are those of Bonville and Harrington, it seems 

 more probable that the cypher, which is entwined by a 

 knot, denotes William and Catherine, or William Bon- 

 ville, Lord Harington, and his wife, Catherine, daughter 

 of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury. 



(Piate 2, fig. 6.) There is also an elegant fönt, which 

 appears, by the form of the escutcheons, to have been exe- 

 cnted at the beginning of the 16th Century, and therefore, 

 probably placed there by Wolsey, sometime rector. 



The manor house was re-built in 1672, by James Taze- 

 well, Esq. Of that building only a wing remains, the 

 rest having been pulled down by the present owner, and 

 a new house erected on its site.* 



A list of some of the patrons and rectors of Limington 

 church. In 1192 the annual value of the rectory was 

 certified at thirty marks, (£20), and in 1535 at £21 6s. 5d. 



Rector. Patron. 



1329. John Fychet, Sir R. Gyverney. 



1388. John Reynald, probably William de Shareshulle. 

 1500. Thomas Wolsey, Marquis of Dorset. 



1535. Walter Cocks, Marquis of Dorset. 



* Limington house Stands upon a mound of moderate elevation ; during 

 the excavations for the foundation, numerous Roman coins were turned 

 up; from whieh, and its proximity to Ivelchester, (the camp on the Ivel) 

 there is little doubt that it was used by the Romans as an out-post to 

 thcir camp. 



