It occurs to me that a suggestion in the
previous post will only seem plausible if the reader knows how common it was for a tun to form part of a rebus, so here are a few more examples:
Rings + tun = "Ringeston" (as discussed
here).
A tun in a press = Preston
A tun marked MOR = Morton.
In this case, the illuminator has mistakenly marked the tun "MOK", but the
first page of the text includes the arms and name of John Morton, so we can be confident of the identification. (It it were not for the lettering and other evidence, one might guess that this border was painted for someone called something like Eagleton, or Hawkton.) A second example of Morton's arms and rebus is
here.
A web search finds lots of examples in other media:
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Shell + tun = Shelton |
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Mill + tun = Milton |
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Beacon + tun = Beckinton |
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Bolt + tun = Bolton |
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Pastoral staff over a tun = Abbot Overton's rebus |
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Bar + tun = Barton |
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