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By the Rev. J. E. Jacksok. 



The annexed Plate exhibits Five Seals relating to the County, 

 which have never been published before. 



No. 1. An exquisite Seal of Henry Esturmy, "Lord of Fighel- 

 dean," (in the Hundred of Ambresbury), attached to a re- 

 ceipt for money, dated Michaelmas, 1358, (32 Edw. III.) 

 In the centre the shield of Esturmy ; Argent, 3 demi-lions 

 rampant gules: within roundels at the sides, the shield of 

 Hussey, Barry of six gules and ermine. In a roundel at 

 the top, a bugle horn. 

 The early history of Figheldean, as given by Sir R. C. Hoare, 1 

 is confined to the single fact of its having belonged (together with 

 lands at Ablington, Durrington, Standen Hussey, and North Tid- 

 worth, &c.) to a family of Hussey, from John to 7 Rich. II. 

 (1383). 2 



The document therefore to which this Seal is appended supplies 

 the next link in its manorial history ; showing that the Husseys 

 were succeeded by the family of Esturmy. From other sources it 

 appears that Henry, second son of Henry Esturmy of Wolf-Hall, 

 married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Hubert Hussey; her 

 sister Isabella being the wife of John de Torney. 3 



1 Hundred of Ambresbury, p. 34. 



2 Aubrey speaks of two fair freestone monuments of Knights cross-legged, 

 with shields, and at the foot of each a lion, as then (1674) in the South Aisle of 

 Figheldean Church, near the Belfry. Whose they were he could not learn: and 

 they were " tumbled one on the top of the other." They are now (1855) placed 

 in the Chancel in a standing position : but there is no device by which they can 

 be identified. They are probably effigies of Hussey, the charges on whose 

 shield were of a kind easily effaced. 



3 Inq. p. Mort., 10 Edw. III. and History of Mere, 117. 



