By J. B. Nightingale, F.S.A. 



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Richard de Vernon, William Waspail,* John Lyngmere. and many others. Dated 

 Chilmark, Sunday before the Feast of S. Martin [11th November], 39 Ed. III. 

 [1365]. Latin. 



Small round seal, bearing a shield of arms, frelty, on a chief a 

 lion passant. Legend ^ S NICHOLAI DE UPTON (?). Si- 

 gillum Nicholas de Ufton (?) or Upton (?). (Plate, No. 1J .) 



7. Grant by John de Belameslonde and William Hughe, chaplain, to the 

 Church of St. Edith at Wilton, and the Abbess and Convent of the same, of two 

 messuages, a mill, four virgates of land, and eight shillings of rent in Chilmark, 

 together with the reversion of a messuage and two virgates of land in Nether- 

 hampton held of them for life by Thomis Tydolueshide and Johanna, his wife. 

 Witnesses, Thomas West, Laurence de St. Martin, William be Bermygham, 

 knights, Henry Stourmy, Walter atte Borghe, Nicholas de Bonham, Richard de 

 Vernoun, William Waspail, and many others. Dated Chilmark, Monday before 

 the Feast of St. Clement [17th November], 39 Edw. III. [1365]. Latin. 



Two seals. First, a round seal, within a quatrefoil border a heart; 

 from this spring three branches, supporting two birds, billing. 

 Legend TRWE • BE ■ LOVE • TRIK • TRWE. True be Love, 

 trik i true. Red wax. (Plate, No. 7.) 



Second seal, oval, bearing a full-length figure of St. Mary- 

 Magdalene in the Wilderness. Legend, MARIA MAGDALENA. 

 Red wax. (Plate, No. 1.) 



8. Letters of attorney from Sibil [Aucher], Abbess of Wilton, and the Con- 

 vent of the same, to Nicholas de Bonham, their steward, to receive seisin of the 

 manor of Foifunte [Fovant], Co. Wilts, lately belonging to Hugh Strode, and 

 granted to the abbey by John Gyldene and William Hughe, chaplain. Dated 

 Wilton, 6 Mar., 45 Edw. III. [1371]. Latin. 



Oval seal, bearing, within a richly-ornamented Gothic niche, a 

 full-length figure of an abbess, the right hand holding a pastoral 

 staff, the left holding a book ; below, a shield of arms, Ermine, on 

 a chief azure, three lions rampant or. (family of Aucher.) The edge 

 and both sides broken away. Green wax. (Plato, No. 4.) 



Brit. Mus., Harley Charter, 45 A. 37. 



9. Statement by Margerie, widow of Water Dun, that Sir Renaud of Rem- 

 mesbury [Ramsbury, Co. Wilts] purchased lands in Portone [Portou, Co. Wilts] 



* William Waspail of Smallbrook within the parish of Warminster. Some notice of this ancient 

 family will be found in Hoare's Hun. Warminster, p. 45. 



1 2Viy=tight, true, faithful (Northern), TV'/p^sound and firm (Dorset). 

 Malliwell's Archaic Dictionary. 



