Crossword-Solution: TANTONY 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

There is also a small bell in the great central tower called "the Tantony": it formerly belonged to the Dyott family.

Anthony’s power of curing pigs, “they used in several places to tie a bell about the neck of a pig, and maintain it at the common charge of the parish,” from whence came our English proverb of “_Tantony pig_,” or t’Antony, an abridgement of the Anthony pig.

Morton followed, looking quite as usual, with his sinister eyes, his long beard and little English hat, his black velvet cloak and silver-headed cane; but, with a jocularity that was always affected, he pinched the plump cheek of Dame Ainslie, and thumped her husband upon the back, saying— "How farest thou, host of mine? Faith, I need scarcely ask thee, for thou swellest and wallowest amid the good things of this life daily." "By Tantony and Taudry! in these kittle times, my lord"—began Adam.

Anthony, that of ‘tantony-pig.’ It is said that monks attached to monasteries dedicated to this saint had the privilege of allowing their swine to feed in the streets.

These habitually following those who were wont to offer greens to them, gave rise to the expression, ‘To follow like a Tantony-pig.’ Thus, in ‘The good wyfe wold a pylgremage,’ it is said— When I am out of the towne, Look that thou be wyse, And run thou not from hous to hous, Like a nantyny grice.