By the late Rev. Edioard Wilton, 3LA. 



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the ringers for two short peals upon the six bells, one at break of day, and the 

 other after sermon in the afternoon, 6s. ; 20s. to be spent at a friendly meeting 

 of his Trustees therein named, aud such of the better sort of the parishioners 

 as they should think fit to invite in the evening of St. Paul's day, to promote 

 peace and good neighbourhood, and preserve some little regard to the memory 

 of his honoured parents :* 20s. to be yearly disposed of towards the teaching 

 of some poor children to write and read, whose friends were not able to pay for 

 their schooling ; 20s. to buy four bibles with common prayer, to be given also 

 yearly on St. Paul's day to such four poor persons in the said parish as in the 

 opinion of the Yicar or his Curate were most likely to make the best use of the 

 same, and were least able to buy such ; and the remainder of the clear produce 

 of the said legacy, to be given away yearly and every year, after prayers and 

 sermon on the said St. Paul's day in the said Church, among so many poor 

 people of the said parish, to be nominated by the Yicar, or in his absence the 

 Curate, as it would reach to, at twelve pence each. 



In the year 1742 the survivors of the trustees named in Bishop 

 Tanner's will, invested the legacy of £200 in the purchase of land 

 in Patney in the county of Wilts. 



At the foot of the Bishop's Monument in Christ Church Cathedral, 

 are the arms of the See ; impaling, Tanner of Cornwall ; Argent, 3 

 Blackamores' heads couped; banded gules. The same arms are in 

 the Quadrangle at All Souls, with those of other Bishops of that 

 College, painted on the plane of the sun-dial. Tanner, we know, 

 used them on his official Seal, upon being made Chancellor of 

 Norwich ; they are also in cast-iron on the entrance gates to the 

 Bishop's Chapel, Norwich Cathedral : impaled with those of his 

 first and second wives; again, under the portrait prefixed to the 

 second edition of the Notitia, published after the Bishop's death. 

 I mention this, to correct a mistake in Dr. Bliss's new edition of 

 Wood's Athence, Oxon : vol. ii. where Fasti begin, column 1. 

 Against an Initial T., rests a coat of arms, which in the Table of 

 References to woodcuts in vol. iv., is described as Bishop Tanner's. 

 It is not his, but as it embodies the coats of two distinct families of 



* It is to be hoped that this annual festive " Obit" in memory of a learned Divine has always been 

 conducted with becoming decorum. But from a brief and somewhat peremptory letter wbich I have 

 found among Mr. Wilton's MSS. I am inclined to think that now and then there may have arisen a 

 " rixa super mero." The writer, a high parish official, sends thus to the Landlord of the Green 

 Dragon, Lavington, where the entertainment was to take place : "As a list of the guests invited to 

 commemorate the memory of Bp. Tanner has not, for some years, been even presented for Mr. 



's inspection, or approbation— he now particularly wishes, as a Trustee of the Legacy, to 



know who the Quests are and what there is for Supper ? together with an Inspection of the Hook 

 of Proceedings, or Report, ever produced on this night. Evening ot Jan. 25th, 1817." I am afraid, 

 that upon that " Evening," there was a etorm at the Green Dragon ! [J. E r J,] 



