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X. Survey of the Manor and Forest of Clarendon, Wiltshire, in 1272; Communicated by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. F.R.S., F.S.A., in a Letter addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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I send you a Survey of the Royal Manor of Clarendon in Wiltshire, made in the first year of King Edward the First. When I resided at Salisbury in 1821, I obtained leave to dig on the site of Clarendon Palace in order to discover the plan of it. In the course of searching for the traces of the foundations, I found some painted glass, Norman tiles, and fragments of painted stucco; but I should doubt their being part of any thing described here, for it is most probable that the walls had been often fresh painted and the windows new glazed since the time of Henry the Third or Edward the First. The painted glass, however, was very thick, which is a mark I believe of great antiquity.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1832

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page 154 note a Wooden tiles.

page 155 note b Or query, from old and young trees? ‘de veteri quam de novo.”

page 156 note c I have been informed that there is an ancient house in Wales (at Penrhos in Montgomery-shire) which has continued the use of shingles instead of tiles, to this present time.

page 158 note d Matthew Paris, however (I have since found) says, that this John Mansell was the King's Secretary and Privy Counsellor, “Domini Regis Clericus, et Conciliarius Speeialis,” It would therefore be essential that a separate chamber should be appropriated to him.