46 Notes on the Corporation Plate and Insignia of Wiltshire. 



Lord Bruce, 1 ensigned with a baron's coronet, Or, a sal tire and chief 

 gules, on a canton argent a lion rampant azure. Supporters, two 

 savages proper wreathed round the loins and temples vert. 



No. 2. The common seal at present in use is of silver with black 

 wooden handle. It is circular, 2Jin. in diameter, and bears the 

 hall-mark for 1835. It has the borough arms and crest supported 

 by two greyhounds. In this seal the castle is represented as on a 

 canton. The legend is : — 



" THE SEAL OF THE MAYOR ALDERMEN AMD BURGESSES 



OF THE BOROUGH OF MARLBOROUGH." 



No. 3. The mayor's seal, of silver, with lignum vitse handle, is 

 circular, 1-J-in. in diameter. It bears a plain shield of the town 

 arms with the legend round :— 



"SICJLLUf^ MAIORIS BURGI DE SVSARLEBERG." 



On the butt of the handle is a silver plate engraved with the 

 Bruce arms, as on seal No. 1. 



In 1727 it was ordered that whereas two seals, a greater and a less, have been 

 sold, the new silver seal of 1714 shall alone be used, and the old seal destroyed. 

 Possibly this was the older seal which is said to exist on documents, bearing the 

 castle only. 2 



SALISBUBY. 



Henry III. granted the first charter in 1227, which ordains that 

 Nova Saresberia shall be a free city with the same privileges as 

 Winchester. This was confirmed by Edward I. and later sovereigns. 

 A new charter was granted by Edward IV. in 1462, ordering that 

 the mayor and citizens should be a body corporate by the name of 



1 Thomas, third Earl o£ Elgin and second Earl of Aylesbury, lived in retirement 

 in Brussels for forty years, dying in 1741. His son, Charles, was summoned to 

 the House of Lords in his father's lifetime in his father's barony of Bruce of 

 Whorlton. He had previously sat for Marlborough in the House of Commons, 

 1710 and 1711. Doubtless the common seal and the mayor's seal were presented 

 by him. The supporters of the arms are those of Elgin, which differ from those 

 of Aylesbury, in that the latter carry flags. 



2 Waylen, History of Marlborough, 373. 



