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384 rated with a golden lion, being part of the heraldic charge which is displayed upon his shield. A branch of the Butler family appears to have been settle! at Llaneltid, in Glamorganshire, not far distant from St. Bride's. "Johannes le Botiller, de Lanultyt" was knight of the shire, co. Gloucester, A.D. 1324, 17 Edw. II. The effigy, however, appears to be of earlier date, and exhibits the peculiarities assigned to the later part of the thirteenth century.

Mr. W. H. Clarke, of the Minster-yard, York, sent impressions of two coins of the usurper Carausius, which were discovered in a garden near Micklegate-bar, on Thursday, the 22nd, and Friday, the 23rd, of May. The first bears on one side the head of Carausius, and on the reverse, a woman standing, in her right hand a garland, in her left ears of corn. On the reverse of the second,. Both examples occur in Akermann's larger work on Roman coins. Mr. Clarke forwarded also impressions of the following Roman coins found on the 30th of May last, in Cracer's-gardens, near Micklegate-bar, viz.:—One of Victorinus, rare, third brass, reverse, a military figure standing: one of Constans: and a very small Constantine. These impressions were accompanied by one of a large coin of Allectus, recently found at Bishophill. In a subsequent letter to the secretary, Mr. Clarke enclosed impressions of several coins of William the Conqueror, and Rufus, discovered in digging the foundation of a house in Jubbergate, the ancient quarters of the Jews of York. They were found at the depth of six feet from the sur- face on Saturday, the 21st of June, and were in number about 300.

Mr. Hawkins observed that the type of these silver pennies of the Conqueror, with the exception of one as he had been informed, was that of 234 in the "Silver Coins of England," and that all he had been able to learn of the one exception, was, that the face was in profile. The whole number discovered was reported to be about 600, but Mr. Hawkins had been enabled to obtain a view of 167 pieces only; and he had communicated to the Numismatic Chronicle a list of the moneyers whose names are. not given by Ruding, about twenty-five in number. A single penny of the Confessor was discovered with these coins of William the Conqueror.

Mr. Way read the following communication from the Rev. J. Graves, of Borris-in-Ossory, one of the Local Secretaries for Ireland:—"I have frequently observed in the low moory lands of the Queen's county, especially in the neighbourhood of bogs, heaps or mounds of various shapes and sizes, which appeared to be composed of small fragments of grit-stone, mixed with particles of charcoal. To myself, as well as to some intelligent friends with whom I conversed on the subject, these mounds appeared to be