456 Notes. 



Hanging^ Langford. During 1911 Miss M. Graham, of Dinton, 

 found in rabbit diggings within the area of the earthworks at Hanging 

 Langford, a tithing of Steeple Langford, the following objects, of 

 Romano-British age : — a bronze bow hinge pin fibula with T-shaped 

 head, and plain rounded strong bow with slight furrow up its centre ; 

 a portion of the bronze bow of a hinge pin fibula of flat thin bronze 

 with three furrows ; and part of what is apparently a small iron 

 penannular ring fibula, the perfect end of which has a knob. In addition 

 to these a British coin of base silver or mixed white metal was found. 

 It almost exactly resembles a coin in the British Museum figured in 

 Hawkins' Silver Coins of England, Plate I., fig. 5, having on the oh^ 

 the degenerate remains of a laureate head, and on the rev. a disjointed 

 horse with pellets above it. Several examples of this coin were found 

 together at Portsmouth. All these objects remain in the possession of 

 Miss Graham, and drawings of them by the Rev. C. V. Goddard have 

 been placed in the Society's Library. E. H. Goddaed. 



All Cannings Rectory. On the wall plate of the south garden 

 front of the old part of the Rectory are two iron plates bearing in 

 large raised letters the following inscriptions :— 



P.B. ANO DNI 



MH m^ 



EATTO 



[Robert Byng, not for himself, erected this building 1642.] 

 Robert Byng was presented to the Rectory by Henry Byng, Sergeant- 

 at-Law, who perhaps held the presentation for a turn, in 1625. He 

 was ejected during the Commonwealth. On the north wall of the 

 nave of Potterne Church is a memorial Tablet recording the Wray 

 family, one of them being a " grandson of Thomas Byng, some years- 

 Major of the Wiltshire Militia, and great grandson of the Rev^. Robert- 

 Byng, D.D., formerly Rector of All Cannings, of which he was- 

 deprived by his adherence to King Charles, died before his restoration, 

 and was buried in St. John's Church, Devizes." 



In Wilts Arch. Mag., ii., 233, Mr. E. Kite mentions a Robert Byng,. 

 D.D., sometime Rector of Devizes, who died Feb. 8th, 1658. Qry. the 

 same man ? Over this memorial tablet at Potterne is now a hatch- 

 ment which was formerly fixed to the chancel ceiling, was removed 

 in 1872 to the belfry, was afterwards placed in the vestry, and has- 

 just been restored to the nave. It bears the Byng arms and is said to 

 have the date 1782 upon it. The heraldry is described in Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., xxiii., 299. There is a tradition that the Byngs or Wrays lived 

 in the old house at Whistley, in Potterne, afterwards inhabited by 

 the Rev. Henry Kent, D.D. H. E. Medlicott. 



Silver Seal found at Potterne. in the account of thi& 



seal which has lately been acquired by the British Museum, the 

 translation of the legend " Que tibi lego lege " is given as "what I 





