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Jonaiiotts ta i\t Upturn anb Jikatg. 



The Council of the Society have the pleasure to acknowledge the following 

 Donations. 



By R. C. Long, Esq. : — A ponderous iron implement found among the " Grey 

 Wethers " at Clatford, with some fragments of iron found under some of the 

 stones. [It has been suggested that this implement is the representative of 

 the modern fold-bar. At periods when iron was scarce and valuable, such a 

 form as this would be used, attached to a long wooden handle ; it is super- 

 seded by the pointed iron bar of modern times.] 



By Mr. J. Ellen :— The Poll- Book of the Wilts Election of 1818. 



By J. Yonge Akerman, Esq. : — An account of excavations in an ancient 

 cemetry at Frilford, Berks. 



By J. Mayer, Esq., F.S.A. :— A paper " on Public Libraries, &c," and an 

 address to the Historic Society of Lancashire, by the donor. 



Ancient Tile eotjnd at Milton. 

 Mr. Hungerford Penrtjddocke has presented to the Society, an encaustic tile 

 found at Milton, near Pewsey, Wilts. It has on it a shield of arms, sable, a cross 

 engrailed ermine ; in the first quarter, a crescent argent. A learned member 

 of the Society has supplied the following information on the subject : — "Mil- 

 ton Church and the manor of Fyfield, belonged to Cirencester abbey, co. 

 Gloucester, and in the list of Cirencester abbots, I find William Wotton, 

 who died 1440. In Burke's Armoury, the arms of the last Wotton but one 

 are given as ' sable, a cross engrailed ermine.' The crescent we may presume 

 to be a mark of cadency ; that is, it was added to the family arms to show 

 that Abbot Wotton was a second son. The tile, no doubt, formed part of the 

 decorations of Milton Church, and was placed there during the time when 

 Wotton was abbot of Cirencester abbey — perhaps about the time when the 

 church was restored and newly paved." 



Erratum. 



In the reference to the Wetherell bequest, p. 217 in the last number of the 

 Magazine, it was stated that Mrs. Wetherell was the sister of the late Dean 

 Merewether. This is not correct, the Dean was the son of an elder half-brother 

 of the late Sergeant Merewether. 



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