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Rh pottery, an iron stylus, and two small brass coins of Constantine, were discovered.

Mr. Smith then read a note, and exhibited a drawing in illustration, from Mr. A. Stubbs of Boulogne, on two stone capitals of pillars sculptured with the Tudor arms, deposited in the museum of that town. These capitals, Mr. Stubbs states, were found on taking down a house on the Tintilleries in 1807, and he conjectures that they belonged to the jubé or rood-loft of the church of St. Nicholas in Calais, taken down to make room for the citadel erected by the French after the recovery of the town from the English; and which jubé, it appears, was by order of Charles IX. transferred in 1561 to Boulogne.

Mr. Pettigrew read a note from Arthur W. Upcher, Esq., of Sheringham, Cromer, on the discovery of a small bronze figure of the crucified Saviour in a field adjoining Beeston Priory, near Cromer. Mr. Upcher also communicated an inscription from a monumental brass in the church of the same parish. It is as follows:

Mr. Pettigrew also read a note from Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner, mentioning the finding of a small brass coin of Victorinus and some tradesmen's tokens of the seventeenth century, in excavating the foundations of a house at Broadstairs, near Ramsgate.

A letter was then read from Mr. Charles L. Fisher, of Aldenham Park, promising an account of the Prior's House at Wenlock, an interesting monastic house almost the only one remaining habitable which has not been altered or modernised. The abbey, Mr. Fisher remarks, is not preserved as it should be. The farm-servants are permitted to disfigure the remains of the church in the most wanton manner, making a practice of tearing asunder the beautiful clustered piers, a few only of which are now left, with crow-bars, for mere amusement. Mr. Fisher solicits the kind interference of some member of the Association with Sir W. W. Wynne, the owner of the property, to put a stop to such Vandalism.

Mr. W. H. Rolfe exhibited a small enamelled and gilt bronze figure, apparently of a mass-priest, found at Hammel, near Eastry in Kent.

Mr. C. R. Smith, in the name of Monsieur Lecointre-Dupont of Poitiers, foreign member of the Association, presented the following works. 1. Catalogue des Objects Celtiques du Cabinet d'Antiquités de la Ville de Poitiers, et du Musée de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest, par M. Lecointre-Dupont. 8vo. Poitiers 1839. 2. Essai sur les Monnaies du Poitou, par M. Lecointre-Dupont. 8vo. Poitiers 1840. 3. Notice sur un Denier de l'Empereur Lothaire, par M. Lecointre-Dupont. 8vo. Blois. 4. Traité conclu à Londres, en 1359, entre les rois Jean et Edouard, par M. L. D. 8vo. Poitiers. 5. Rapport présenté à la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest, au nom de la Commission chargée d'examiner la Facade de l'Eglise Notre-Dame de Poitiers, par M. Lecointre-Dupont. 8vo. Poitiers.

Mr. William Edward Rose presented through Mr. C. R. Smith a spear-head in iron, 23 inches in length, a bronze ornament attached to a portion of a chain, and a small brass coin of Constantine (Rev. ), a figure on horseback with the right arm elevated, and holding in the left hand a javelin; before the