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 288 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF the Corporations whom they concerned, This satisfactorily explains the surrender above mentioned, and the state in which it was found ; for, beside that there is no memorandum of enrolment on it, there was set forth in the proclamation the names of the boroughs whose surrenders of their charters had been enrolled, and Carnarvon was not among them. By Mr. J. E. Rolls. — A miniature portrait, of the XVlIth century, and a collection of small personal ornaments, <kc., of various periods, comprising a gold ring set with an intaglio on blood-stone, the device supposed to be Gnostic ; it is an eagle with the Greek letters Theta and Ko : — two brass Russo-Greek Crosses, one of them with the emblems of the passion surrounding the crucifix — a small bronze scull, possibly intended to be appended to a string of paternosters ; also, a small watch made by " Salomon Chesnon, a Blois," it has no hands, the hour being indicated by an escutcheon engraved on a circular plate, which revolves within the circle showing the hours ; this escutcheon is charged with the following coat, — on a cross engrailed, between four eagk-s displayed, five lions passant. The back of the inner case is engraved, representing a gentleman and a lady who holds a bow. A steel key and a seal of elaborate workmanship, probably French ; and a set of silver toilet implements, similar to that produced at the previous meeting by Mr. llellyer (sec p. 188, ante). In this example, probably of rather later date, a cork-screw, tobacco-stopper, and a small steel for striking a light, are combined with the imj)lenients before described. By Mr. Wiiixcoi'P. — A parchment roll, being tlic inventory of the household effects of Thomas Revett, of Brockford, Suffolk, in IGOl. It will be more fully noticed hereafter. Impressions of Seals. — By Mr. Way. — Impression from a brass matrix lately in the possession of Mr, Bickering. It is of ]»ointed-oval form ; the device being the Virgin seated and holding the infant Saviour, under a canopy of tabernacle work. Beneath are two escutcheons — Barry of six pieces, and in extreme base is the kneeling figure of an ecclesiastic. The legend is as follows : — s' gvill'i. de. sayssac. can', askien. It is a seal of the XlVth century, the owner was probably a canon of Anicium, called also Podium or Lc Buy, the capital of Velay in France. — The seal of Sir • Richard de Burley, from the impression appeiulfd to a document at (Queen's College, Cambridge, dated 'J Richard 11. (l.>Sr)-S). It is one of the most interesting personal seals with heraldry found by Mr. Ready, during the recent examination of seals which he has been permitted to make in the muniment rooms of several colleges at Cambridge. The escutcheon df (lie arm.s of Burley (three bars, n chief charged with two ])alets, on an iii- cscutcheon three bars ermine) is borne by an eagle ducally crowned, with the wings displayed so as almost to enfold the shield. — ;5i(liir : lifAvtlt : binirt : militia : r>v the Rev. JaMEH (jIiavks. — Impression froni a matrix of gilt bra-ss, found near the workhouse at Killieniiy. and lately presented to the Kilkemiy Arcliji-ological Society, as recorded in their .lournal, vol. iii., p. 71). It is of circular form ; on an ewcutcheon appears a lion rampant ;■ -s' : THOME : Ki,' : iiK.NUU'ii : DE : lios. A TIiohmih ears in a docunnMit of the year 1U88, who was a monk ofSt. .lolm's Abliey at Kilkenny, near the ."pot where this seal, which may he ol' that period, was discovered.