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Rh virgin consort of an East Anglian king, who bestowed on her the manor of Chick, in Essex, where she founded a monastery, and was beheaded by the Danes about the year 870. Her relics were preserved at that place, where a great abbey of regular canons was erected, called St. Osith's; and her life was written by Vere, a canon of that house, from which Leland extracted some particulars. (Itin., viii. f. 81.) The name of St. Apollonia is lost, but in the right hand of the figure is seen a pair of pincers, clipping a double tooth, and a book in her left hand. These four figures are placed under canopies, and are in good preservation; they occupy the upper or tracery-lights; in one of the lower lights is to be seen a canopy of very rich design. The date of this painted glass is about the time of Henry VI. Four other figures of saints are also to be seen at Mells; St. Margaret, St. Catherine, a female saint bearing a cross and book, and another bearing a book and palm-branch.

The Rev. William Staunton, of Longbridge, communicated the following notices of Fulbroke castle, accompanied by a drawing of a curious steel-yard weight, which was discovered about five years since, in the moat adjoining to a farm-house at Fulbroke, a small parish about three miles distant from Warwick. The moat encloses an oblong parallelogram of about half an acre, now used as an orchard to the farm-house, (which is a substantial modern building just without the moat,) and from the artificial banking of the ground within, it appears to have been the site of an ancient building. The moat was entire till within the last seven or eight years, when a small part was filled up to connect the house with the orchard; and in using some of the soil from the orchard for that purpose, a great many deer's bones were dug up, and broken portions of antlers of considerable size. The farm-house stands in a hollow, at the foot of a rising ground, on the summit of which, at about the distance of a quarter of a mile, the castle of Fulbroke formerly stood; it was therefore probably within the precincts of the old park, and still retains the name of Fulbroke Park Farm. A few yards distant from it is an artifical square mound, comprising about a quarter of an acre, surrounded by the trace of a fosse in which willows are at present growing. It is not therefore improbable that this may be the site of the building mentioned by Leland in his Itinerary, (vol. iv. p. 65.) He states that "there is a little lodge or piece of building in this park called Bargeiney, made, as I conjecture, by some Lord or Lady Bargeiney." In clearing the mud out of a portion or this moat, about five years ago, the weight was discovered in the bank. It is formed of a thin coat of brass externally, the inside being filled up with solid lead; this is shewn in consequence of a portion of the brass being worn through at the bottom. It measures in height, to the top of the handle, 2 inches; in circumference, round the broadest part. 8 inches, and weighs