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270 was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and the first word of the lower inscription appears to be.

The Lord Stanley, of Alderley, communicated for the inspection of the Committee some Roman coins, found near Holyhead, Anglesea. They consisted of a small gold medallion of Constantine the Great, struck at Treves. Obverse, CONSTANTINVS MAX. AVG. Reverse, within a chaplet of leaves, VOTIS XXX. In the exergue, TSE (Treveris signata.) Weight, 83 gr. This piece was found in 1825, on the Holyhead mountain.

There were also small brass coins of Valerian, Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus, and Posthumus the elder, being a portion of a large number of coins discovered in 1843, under a large stone in a field at Tref Arthur, near Holyhead.

The Rev. John Williams, of Nerquis, near Mold, reported, that in re- moving the materials of the old church of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, in Denbighshire, preparatory to the erection of a new fabric, a large quantity of gold and silver coins had recently been found, some of which were supposed to be of the reign of Edward III. Nearly one hundred pieces were discovered, chiefly of silver, and they remain in the possession of the incumbent, the Rev. D. Davis. Mr. Williams sent impressions taken in sealing-wax from two of the gold coins, an angel and a noble of Edward IV.

The original foundation of the church where this discovery was made is ascribed, as Mr. Williams observed, to Garmon, or Germanus, one of the anti-Pelagian champions, in the fifth century. It stood in the district which formed, it is conjectured, part of the possessions of Cadell Deyrnllug, prince of the Vale Royal, and part of Powys, who was assisted by Germanus in obtaining the throne. It is possible that the site of the church had been granted by him to Germanus in consideration of this service. At a later period the church recently demolished had been erected upon the site of the more ancient fabric, and its date, it is supposed, may be ascertained by the discovery of coins which has there occurred.

Dr. Bromet, who, on his departure with the view of attending the congress of the French Society for the Preservation of Historical Monuments, held at Lille during the second week of this month, had been deputed by the Central Committee to submit to the meeting some enquiries regarding mailed armour, as used in Europe during the middle ages, the peculiar conventional modes of representing mail, and other details of a similar nature, reported, in a letter to the Secretary, the proceedings which occurred at that interesting assembly. The received opinion on the Continent appeared to be, that the common ring-mail, as it is termed, in describing the armour of our earlier effigies, apparently composed of rings set edge-wise in parallel rows, is merely a conventional mode of representing interlaced mail, identical in construction with the chain mail haubertes occasionally seen in armouries or museums. The President, M. de Caumont, announced his intention of causing the queries submitted