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SOME MILTON ANTIQUITIES. 



staff, a windmill on a cask a mill on a tun, i.e., Milton the 

 name Middleton probably being pronounced Milton. The date 

 is 1514, the 4 being represented by half an eight. The rebus 



THE MILTON REBUS. 



also occurs in the Great Hall and on the stone porch of the 

 Abbey House, in " the Abbot's Oriel," on a gateway at 

 Delcombe Manor, and on the vaulting of the transepts and 

 " crossing " of the Abbey Church. The life of Abbot Middleton 

 is written in my little book on Milton Abbey and its School. 



MEDIEVAL TILING. 



The encaustic tiles which form the chancel floor of S. 

 Catherine's Chapel were removed from the Abbey Church in 

 the year 1865. Some of these mediaeval tiles are heraldic and 

 contain the Arms of the See of Exeter (the cross keys and 

 sword), the Earls of Cornwall, Gloucester, and Hertford, and 

 others (three lions passant, a shield vaire, another checquee, 

 three swans, a cross between four lions rampant within a bordure 

 engrailed). A tile, manufactured at Malvern, has an inscription 

 and date 1456. Besides these there are two knights on horse- 

 back (one with a spear, the other with a sword), a stag and 

 hound, a dog in front of a tree, two birds, a star with six points, 



