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Rh ermine collar, and a red cloak. The queen is much younger, with auburn hair, and is in a purplish robe lined with red. Their crowns are of Edwardian character, having on the circles three elevated trefoils with intervening short broad rays, but to what English monarch and his wife to appropriate these figures I am at a loss. The vicar, Mr. Lindsay, thinks they were meant for Edward III. and his queen, but on this point I must differ with him, and would rather take them for some royal personages of holy writ, or perhaps of St. Christopher's time; first, because of the apparent disparity of their ages, (Edward and his wife having both been married when very young,) and secondly, because I cannot find any elderly English monarch with a young wife who existed at that period, the fifteenth century, during which Croydon church may be presumed, from its architectural features, to have been built; unless, as Mr. Lindsay says, the portion of wall on which they are painted be older than the other parts of the church."

The Rev. Hugh Jones, D.D., rector of Beaumaris, informed the Committee that having recently visited Llugwy, where the largest of the cromlechs existing in Anglesea is to be seen, he was informed that certain persons had been digging around it in expectation of finding money, and had brought to light only a number of bones, some of which he had preserved, in order to learn whether they are the remains of men or of animals.

Mr. Holmes sent for examination fac-similes of two singular inscriptions taken from portions of a screen, formerly in the church of Llanvair-Waterdine, Shropshire, near Knighton, on the confines of Radnorshire. They were communicated by the Rev. William I. Rees, rector of Casgob, in the latter county. The characters are carved in relief on two rails of a piece of panelled screen- work, which had been concealed by a pew. The upper- most inscription consists of two lines, measuring in length about 2 ft. 3 in., and the width of the rail is about 3 in.; it is chamfered off on either side in a hollow moulding. The words, as it appears, are divided from each other by incised lines. Sir Samuel Meyrick exhibited casts from these inscriptions to the Society of Antiquaries, Jan. 26, 1843; suggesting that the characters may be regarded as musical notes, and that the perpendicular lines answer to the bars in music; the whole forming, probably, the strain of a chant. The church