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92 that every feature of its character has been effectually concealed. The residence of the dean having been recently removed to the building hitherto known as the Bishop's Palace, and some intention of pulling down this ancient hall having been entertained, attention has been drawn to the fine architectural character of the structure. The plate, engraved at the expense of the Rev. William Digby, canon of Worcester, after the design of Mr. Haney Eginton, exhibits the interior as it would appear if restored; and it is earnestly to be hoped that the interest which has been taken by several members of the chapter in its preservation, may secure from injury or demolition so interesting a monument of Decorated Architecture.

Mr. Francis Foster, of the Inner Temple, exhibited a cast in plaster of Paris, taken from a portion of a collar of suns and roses, which appears on the effigy of a knight, in Ryther church, Yorkshire. No intervening links are seen between them, as usually is the case; and a lion couchant is appended to the collar. A cast of a small piece of interlaced mail, as represented on another effigy in the same church, was likewise shewn. The conventional modes of representing mail at different periods vary considerably, and much light would, in all probability, be thrown upon the obscure subject of the use of ringed and mailed defences, if correspondents would take the trouble to send to the Committee casts of small portions of effigies, which present any unusual appearance in the representation of mail.

Dr. Bromet exhibited several rubbings taken from sepulchral brasses by Mrs. Whittam, of Cadogan Place. He described them as illustrative of the kind of armour which was used by gentlemen, or knights of an inferior degree, during the middle and latter part of the sixteenth century.

The Rev. Henry Lindsay, Vicar of Croydon, expressed his wish that some member of the Committee should examine the curious mural painting which has been recently discovered in the church of Croydon, previously to its being concealed again from view, in consequence of the decision of the churchwardens that the whole shall shortly be coloured over. The subject is St. Christopher; a little apart from the principal figure are portraits of. a king and queen, in fair preservation: Mr. Lindsay supposes that they represent Edward III. and Queen Philippa. There are also traces of an inscription.