122 Certificate of the Town Gild of Malmesbury. 



Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III. ; (3) France Ancient ; (4) 

 England ; (5) Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans— Argent, 

 a lion rampant gules crowned or, within a bordure sable bezanty ; (6) 

 De Burgh — Or y a cross gules. 



In the space and time at my disposal I have not been able to do 

 more than touch the fringe of a subject which ought to be of great 

 interest to all Wiltshire people, and especially to such a Society as 

 that which I have had the honour of addressing ; and I venture to 

 hope that if I have been so fortunate as to arouse any interest in 

 the heraldry of Salisbury Cathedral my words may induce someone 

 more competent than myself to take this important subject in hand 

 and treat it in the way it deserves. 



Certificate of t|e Cofoit (Sift of Jfalmcsktg, 



(f uWfc l&ecorti ©ffice— Certificates, &c, of ffiutltrsu 

 Chancers No. 443.) 



HE accompanying certificate is the only existing example 

 for the county of Wilts of the returns made to the king 

 in council by order of parliament, as to the ordinances, wages, 

 properties, &c, of English Gilds, 12 Bich. II., A.D. 1389. 



Canon Jackson mentions in his History of Malmesbury ( Wilts 

 Arch. Mag., vol. viii.) the deed by which king Athelstan gave land 

 to the burgesses of Malmesbury, about the year 930 : — " I give 

 and grant to them that royal heath near my little town of Norton 

 for their aid given me in my conflict with the Danes " ; and in 

 a note to J. Aubrey's account of Malmesbury (p. 252) says 

 that Malmesbury Common was enclosed and allotted by act of 



