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within a double tressure flory and counterflory gules, three lozen- 

 ges of the second. If the belt originally belonged to the horn, it 

 could not have been Esturmy's, their paternal coat being as repre- 

 sented in the Seal. It is now more commonly called the Bruce 

 Horn. 



Into what family Figheldean passed from the second house of 

 Esturmy, does not at present appear. 



No. 2. A silver Seal found in 1841 on the site of the Monastery 

 of St. Mary Magdalene, at Monkton Farley, Wilts., during 

 an excavation made there by the late Wade Browne, Esq. 

 of that place. It is very well cut, and bears the legend 

 CAPUT MARIE MAGDALENE. The Editors of the 

 "New Monasticon" say that no Seal of this Priory had 

 been yet discovered. The present one is not likely to have 

 been that of the Priory, but more probably the private Seal 

 of some Prior. 



No. 3. The following account of this Seal has been kindly sent by 

 its present possessor, Albert Way, Esq. : — 



"It is an impression from the ancient Seal of the Official of the Prebend of 

 Tetminster and Ghrimston, in the Cathedral of Salisbury, which may be regarded 

 with interest as an example of 14th century workmanship, and is scarcely less 

 curious on account of the singular circumstances under which it was found. 



" It may be scarcely requisite to recall to the Society the history of Yetminster, 

 a place which gives a name to a hundred in the County of Dorset, and of which 

 and the details of its manorial history, and curious local customs, a full account 

 has been given by Hutchins in his " History of Dorset," vol iv, p. 264. It 

 will suffice to advert briefly to the leading facts, that at the time of the Domes- 

 day Survey, Eteminster was held by the Bishop of Sarum : that amongst the 

 various gifts of Bishop Osmund when he built the New Church at Sarum, at the 

 close of the Eleventh century, the town of Eteminster, knights' fees, &c, were 

 comprised. The principal manor seems to have belonged to the Bishop and 

 Chapter of Salisbury, and having been granted by James I. with the hundred of 

 Yetminster to Sir John Digby, this manor is actually in the possession of Lord 

 Digby. There are in this parish three manors, which give name to three Pre- 

 bends in the Cathedral of Salisbury, namely : — 1 . Yetminster and Grimston ; 

 2. Yetminster prima or Upbury ; 3. Yetminster secunda or Inferior, or Nether- 

 bury. 



4 ' With the first of these Prebends the Seal which I have the pleasure to com- 

 municate to the Wiltshire Archaeologists, is connected . The ch urch of Yetmins- 

 ter, it must be observed, is within the peculiars of the Dean of Sarum ; but the 

 jurisdiction of the Dean, as we are informed by Hutchins, is of a limited nature. 

 Every third year it- is solely within his jurisdiction, when he visits, grants 



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