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Fig. Ib Pilgrim badge of St Edith from Westbury 
honorary title of Abbess! (Darbyshire, 2003, 8, and 
fig., p. 14.) The attribution of these badges, all 
perhaps 15th century in date, to St Edith’s shrine 
allows the addition of a fourth (Figure Ic). 
Found some years ago at West Knoyle, its 
design is similar to that of the Westbury badge, 
though they are clearly from different moulds. This 
is perhaps an indication of increased demand in the 
15th century, Wilton probably benefiting from the 
increased interest in Salisbury following St 
Osmund’s canonisation. 
The relatively local findspots, Salisbury, 
Westbury and West Knoyle, might also suggest that 
St Edith’s was a shrine appealing to devout 
Wiltshire folk whose circumstances did not permit 
leisurely pilgrimages to greater shrines. 
Fig. Ic Pilgrim badge of St Edith from West Knoyle 
Acknowledgements 
I am grateful to Mr T Biss for allowing me to record 
the West Knoyle badge, and to the curators of both 
Salisbury and the Wiltshire Heritage Museum for 
their permission to publish objects in their 
collections. 
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MITCHINER, M., 1986, Medieval Pilgrim and Secular 
Badges 
SPENCER, B., 1990, Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges. 
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The Arundell’s London Estate 
by Barry Williamson 
In my article, ‘The Ruin of a Great Wiltshire 
Estate: Wardour and the Eighth Lord Arundell’ 
(WANHM vol. 94, 2001), I mentioned that family 
legend blamed the ninth Lord’s second marriage (to 
a Protestant) in 1806 as the rock on which the 
Arundell ship finally foundered. The eighth Lord 
had previously inflicted permanent damage on the 
estates by amassing one of the largest recorded debts 
of the 18th and early 19th centuries, to the extent 
that by the time of his death in 1808, he had reduced 
the estates to one-seventh of the size they were when 
he inherited in 1756. They were simply too small to 
provide an income sufficient to maintain Wardour 
Castle, the largest Georgian mansion in Wiltshire. 
Bristol Grammar School, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SR 
