By the 'Rev. E. H. Goddard. 



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The Loving Cup is represented by a small silver tankard 5§in. 



high x 4 Jin. in diameter at the base. It has on the lid : — 



WILTON 

 BVRROVGH 

 1693 



and on the front a shield of the town arms (really the arms of 

 England), three lions passant guardant in pale, with the conventional 

 stiff-leaf palm branch mantling of the period. It bears no hall- 

 marks. It is of the usual type of small domestic tankards of the 

 time. 



The Seals. The Old Common Seal is a pointed oval in shape, 

 2 J in. long. The matrix is of brass. Under a triple canopy a 

 representation of the shrine of S. Edith in the abbey at Wilton, with 

 a shield of the arms of England above one end and an angel with 

 a censer issuing from the clouds. Below, in a round-headed niche, 

 is the half-length figure of an abbess. The legend reads (with a 

 sprig after each word) : — 



"Sbtgtllu' romuttc fcurgewg Ire KltUotu" 



Its date is put by Mr. St. John Hope at the beginning of the 

 fifteenth century. 



The older Mayor's Seal is a circular one, 1 j- 6 i n - in diameter, 

 the matrix of silver, of early fifteenth century date, under a triple 

 canopy with a shield of England over the central pediment, a 

 representation of the coronation of the Virgin, with the legend : — 

 " £ : mamrttatte : fiurg tte totltcm." 



The later seal is also circular, the matrix of steel, with ivory handle. 



[Mr. St. J ohn Hope also notices as in possession of the corporation 

 the ancient fifteenth century seal of the Hospital of St. Giles, the 

 charity of which they have administered since the Reformation. It 

 is a pointed oval 3 Jin. long, with a rude figure of St. Giles as 

 Abbot, holding a crozier with a hind wounded by an arrow leaping 

 up against him, under a canopy, the legend being : — 



" ft' ftomu* elimorfitare get Sgctri ftijrta OaXtltoit."] 



