By J. E. Nightingale, F.8.A. 



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should have been allowed as the arms of the borough in 16:23, 



• whilst the matrix of the fine common seal of the town was in 

 existence then, as now. The vicissitudes of this unfortunate mayor's 

 seal do not <md here. In Britton's Beauties of England and Wales, 

 under the head of Wilton, we learn that, " In the Town Hall of 

 Wilton is a drawing of the great seal affixed to the charter of 

 Wilton. It is commonly supposed to be that of William and 

 Mary ; but the Rev. Mr. Coxe says, the figures are evidently those 



; of Henry VII. and his queen Elizabeth." 



4. Will of John Fromond, burgess of Wilton, bequeathing his body to be 



buried in the cemetery of St. Nicholas at Wilton ; — item, to the fabric of the 

 I Church of St. Mary at Salisbury 12d ; — item, to the fabric of the Church of St. 

 I Edith at Wilton, 12d. ; — item to Johanna, daughter of Richard de Ugeford, a 

 j cottage with curtilage adjacent, &c, in Wilton, situate in a plot in Kyngesbure 



street acquired by the testator from Richard Beleiaumbe,burgess of Wilton, the same 

 1 to be held by her and the lawful heirs of her body, of the chief lords of the fee for the 



accustomed rents and services, with the obligation to provide yearly four pounds 

 i of wax for a torch [torchea] for the great altar of St. Edith at Wilton, and, in 



default of such heirs, to remain to the right heirs of the testator on the same 

 I terms ; — item, that four great torches be placed about his body on the day of his 

 j burial, the one to remain at the great altar of St. Edith, the second at the altar 

 ! of St. Mary in the said Church, the third at the altar of the Holy Cross nigh the 



• altar of St. John the Baptist in the same Church, and the fourth for the Church 

 ! of St. Michael at Letherstocke [Laverstoke] ; item, to Clarice, his wife, all his 

 [j tenements, rents, &c, in Wilton for her life, with remainder to the Mayor and 

 | burgesses of Wilton for the time being for ever ; item the residue to Clarice, 



his wife, to carry out his will for the health of his soul ; — and, finally, 20s. to be 

 j distributed to the poor on the day of his burial ; — Clarice, his wife, and Willia,m 

 ; Maunsel to be executors. Dated Tuesday before the Feast of St. Vincent [22nd 

 j January] 1348 [9]. Latin. 



Proved at Salisbury, 24 Feb., 1348 [9]. 



At a court held at Wilton, Wednesday after the Feast of the 

 Nativity of the Virgin (8th September) , twenty- third Edward III. 

 \ (1349), before John de Westbury, steward of Wilton, and Robert 

 j Sirman, mayor, approved and lawfully pronounced, seisin being de- 

 ! livered according to the tenor of the bequests. 



Attached is an oval soal (ljin. x lin.) bearing a representation 



• of the Coronation of the Virgin, within a double Gothic niche, in 

 | the centre of the canopy a shield of the arms of England (gu.) throe 



lions passant gardent (or), below, extending to the edge of the seal, 



