Wiltshire notes and queries . HUNGERFORD; Shield No. 2, on theverso of leaf 119, is Or, tieo bars engrailed gules, in chief threetortcaux, MOELS, [the bars are generally blasoned plam\and are the work of the original calligrapher, about the margin of one of the leaves elsewhere, an iSth centuryhand (about 1740) has redrawn the shield with two trees forsupporters and added the wore:.-. The arms of Sir Gcorgi Hungerford, Bart., of Farley Castle sable, two bars argent, in chief three plates. The size of the original shield-*is somewhat smaller than that of these accompanying illustra-tion
Wiltshire notes and queries . HUNGERFORD; Shield No. 2, on theverso of leaf 119, is Or, tieo bars engrailed gules, in chief threetortcaux, MOELS, [the bars are generally blasoned plam\and are the work of the original calligrapher, about the margin of one of the leaves elsewhere, an iSth centuryhand (about 1740) has redrawn the shield with two trees forsupporters and added the wore:.-. The arms of Sir Gcorgi Hungerford, Bart., of Farley Castle sable, two bars argent, in chief three plates. The size of the original shield-*is somewhat smaller than that of these accompanying illustra-tions. Perhaps some of our readers can tell us something ,,!the history and pedigree of this valuable book, which is priced Hungerford York Breviary. 183 at ^40. Who was James Hungerford ? Who was Williamde Areton ? BREVIARIUM monasticum ad usum on vellum, 152 leaves in double columns withpainted capitals, illuminated initials, and grotesquein the figures ornamental pen and ink borders; old redmorocco. About The service from Advent to the 24th Sunday of Quad-ragesima occupies the first 61 leaves. Leaves 62, 63, 64contain the Calendar. Next begins the Psalter, which endswith the Litany on leaf 98. Next follows the Sanctorale andSupplement, leaves 99-152. Although this is a York book,with all the special indications of that use (the Offices ofWilfrid and William, and their names in the Calendar andthe Litany), there are two coats of arms in the marginalborders which show that the volume belonged about 1390-1400to a member of the great Wiltshire house of Hungerford. Atthe end of the Psalter there is an inscription which says : 44 DoJacobo Hungerforde mcum amictum si contingat cum presby-tcrari, alitor crit liber domini Willelmi de Areton. Sic quodnon vendatur sed transeat inter cognatos meos. Si fuerintaliqui inventi, sin autem ab uno presbytero ad alium. This isquite clear, in spite of its rust)- Latin and its confusion betweenamictus and 44liber. This was writ
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