By C, H. Talbot. 



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list which I have already published, viz., Matilda de Montefort, 

 who is shown, by documentary evidence, to have been abbess in 

 1351. 



Another matter of interest, though not strictly archaeological, has 

 been brought to my notice quite lately, which it may be well to 

 mention now. I had long desired to ascertain who was the designer 

 of the hall, built about 1756, which is a very remarkable attempt 

 at a Gothic revival. My attention was called to an article 1 by the 

 Rev. George Miller, in the Banbury Guardian for June 20th of 

 the present year (1890), in which, speaking of Kineton Church, 

 Warwickshire, he says that transepts appear to have been added to 

 that Church in 1775, and that they were designed by Mr. Sanderson 

 Miller, of Eadway, in that county, who also designed the hall at 

 Lacock, in Wiltshire, and "made other improvements to that house." 

 I have not seen the documentary evidence for the statement, but it 

 is supported by the fact that the arms of Miller 2 of Eadway appear, 

 in a conspicuous position, in the hall. 



1 " Rambles on the Edge Hills and in the Vale of the Red Horse, chap, viii." 



2 I long ago noticed that the arms (azure four mascles in cross or) were 

 identical with those of Miller, of Radway, but, knowing of no possible connection 

 between Lacock and that family, I could not suppose that they were intended for 

 their arms. They face the arms of Longespee, and the explanation appears to 

 be that Ela Longespee founded the abbey and Mr. Miller designed the hall. 

 Mr. George Miller, however, makes a mistake in stating that the Rev. William 

 Talbot, Vicar of Kineton, was brother to Mr. Talbot, of Lacock. He appears to 

 have been eldest son of Sharington Talbot, third surviving son of William Talbot, 

 Bishop of Durham (Collins's Peerage, fourth edition, vol. vi„ p. 197), which 

 would make him third cousin to Ivory Talbot. 



