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Rh ing any part of the designs. The date of the glass is the latter half of the 14th century.

A letter was read from the Rev. W. Drake, of Coventry, respecting a brass in the church of Laughton, near Gainsborough. It is the figure of a knight placed under a beautiful triple canopy, and lies on an altar-tomb at the east end of the south aisle. From the fashion of the armour Mr. Drake ascribed its date to the close of the fourteenth or the first twenty years of the fifteenth century; it presents scarcely any points of difference as compared with the brass of Thomas Beauchamp, at St. Mary's, Warwick, date 1401, and that of Sir William Bagot, at Baginton, Warwickshire, date 1407. The only variation worth notice is this, that in addition to a highly ornamented horizontal baldric, the sword is also attached to a narrow belt crossing transversely from the right hip. The inscription however gives a date which does not coincide with that suggested by the character of the armour. It is in raised letters, and runs thus: From this inscription Mr. Drake considered it evident that the Dalisons had surreptitiously appropriated the tomb and effigy of some earlier knight to be their own memorial. Mr. Drake instanced, as a similar example of misappropriation, the brass in Howden church, Yorkshire, which purports to be an effigy of Peter Dolman, Esq., who died in 1621, but is manifestly to be referred to the earlier part of the preceding century; the plate on which the inscription is engraved has lines on the reverse which prove it to have been a portion of a female figure, probably the wife of the knight whose figure now represents Peter Dolman. Another example is supplied by the brass of Peter Rede, Knt., in the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, who is stated in the legend to have served the Emperor Charles V. in the conquest of Barbaria and at the siege of Tunis, and to have died in 1568, but the armour of the figure which purports to be Peter Rede is at least a hundred years earlier than this date. A representation of this figure may be seen in Cotman's Brasses.

It is probable that many similar examples are to be noticed, and some of these brasses, termed "Palimpsests," have been enumerated in the Archæologia, vol. XXX., p. 121.

Mr. Way read a letter from Mr. W. H. Clarke, of York, enclosing impressions of two coins recently found in excavating for the railway near St. Mary's Tower, at the end of the Manor Terrace walk; one of them appeared to be a third brass of Constantine the Great, the other was a penny of Edward I., struck at London.

A letter was then read, addressed bv Mr. Benjamin Ferrey to Mr. Way,