_Emmote de Hastings._--
"EMMOTE DE HASTINGS GIST ICI" &C.
A very early slab with the above inscription was found in 1826 on the
site of a demolished transept of Bitton Church, Gloucester. By its side
was laid an incised slab of ---- De Bitton. Both are noticed in the
_Archæologia_, vols. xxii. and xxxi.
Hitherto, after diligent search, no notice whatever has been discovered
of the said person. The supposition is that she was either a Miss De
Bitton married to a Hastings, or the widow of a Hastings married
secondly to a De Bitton, and therefore buried with that family, in the
twelfth or thirteenth century. If any antiquarian digger should discover
any mention of the lady, a communication to that effect will be
thankfully received by