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English: Encaustic tiles at Beauvale Priory, Nottinghamshire, founded in 1343 by Nicholas de Cantilupe, 3rd Baron Cantilupe (c.1301-1355), of Greasley Castle, who built Beauvale Priory within his deer park at Greasley, with the consent of his distant cousin William La Zouche, Archbishop of York (according to a 1947 inscribed window in St Mary's Church, Greasley). The arms show: top left (1): Cantilupe of Greasley; top right (3): attributed arms of Saint William of York (not arms of Zouche as suggested in the text of Transactions of the Thoroton Society); another tile shows the arms of the See of York; 4: "Letters of the Latin alphabet in Lombardic capitals. This is a very common pattern. It will be noticed that every letter is reversed. In specimens of this tile found elsewhere the letters are stamped the right way about, but read from right to left on the tile";