. The Herald and genealogist. On the tile they are accompanied by the wordsBenedicite fontes Domino, and it has been suggested that originally the horse-shoeswere fountains. In 1410 Abbot John de Ripon uses a coun-terseal with the same inscription, but it surrounds the shieldcontaining the cross behveen four lions ravipant. In 1502-3Abbot Huby had licence to build a chapel at Wynkesley, ubi,ut dicitur, S. Cuthbertus aliquamdiu—ducebat vitani. Aninscription is preserved there: Soli Deo honor et gloria, in honoreDei, et Sancti Cutherti et Oswaldi. This abbot built the steepleat the abbey, whereo


. The Herald and genealogist. On the tile they are accompanied by the wordsBenedicite fontes Domino, and it has been suggested that originally the horse-shoeswere fountains. In 1410 Abbot John de Ripon uses a coun-terseal with the same inscription, but it surrounds the shieldcontaining the cross behveen four lions ravipant. In 1502-3Abbot Huby had licence to build a chapel at Wynkesley, ubi,ut dicitur, S. Cuthbertus aliquamdiu—ducebat vitani. Aninscription is preserved there: Soli Deo honor et gloria, in honoreDei, et Sancti Cutherti et Oswaldi. This abbot built the steepleat the abbey, whereon he placed the horse-shoes and anothervery singular coat, a cross flory, hetneen a mitre and heyerect in chief, and a key erect and viitre in haseV (VValbran.) Among the sealsfound in the ruins, Burton gives two small ones with these arms: 1. A chevron(charged with five crosses formee) between- three horse-shoes. 2. A chevron charged tciththree horse-shoes. Tonge assigns the coat of B. three horseshoes 0. to the 160 THE OLD OFFICIAL HERALDKY OF DURHAM. from 1438, during Bishop Nevilles episcopacy. There S. Cuth-bert, holding the head of S. Oswald, sits between two shields, 1. Aplain cross ; 2. A plain cross between four lions rampant. On thepeculiar seals of Bishops Neville, Booth, and Dudley (1438-1483),where Bishop Hatfields arms are given, those arms are placed tothe dexter, under S. Oswald, and the Oswaldine coat is underS. Cuthbert, although that saint does not hold the head of theother one in these cases. But they prove nothing, for on BishopDudleys episcopal seal, where Hatfields arms are absent, theOswaldine coat is under S. Oswald, and Dudleys tivo lionsquartered with a cross patonce (Malpas or S. Cuthbert) under The Oswaldine arms do not appear on any palatineseal of a bishop until we reach that of Bishop Fox (1494-1502),who impales them on the obverse, as on his tomb at the reverse, S. Oswald being absent, they are under theVi


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