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Rh 1 ft. in thickness. The inscription may be thus read:. Lluyd proposed the reading. At the top there is a sort of mortice in which Mr. Haslam imagined that a cross might have been fixed; and on the side opposite to that which bears the inscription, there is a small cross, carved in relief, as shewn in the woodcut. Borlase supposed that this memorial might have been erected in the seventh century.

Two singular personal seals were communicated. The Rev. John Horner, rector of Mells, Somersetshire, forwarded an impression from a matrix found at Mells. It is a seal of oval form, measuring 1 in. and a tenth by 9 tenths. The device is curious: it is composed of a kind of branch, terminating in large masses of leaves, over which is seen a human head, with a long beard, placed in a bowl, probably intended to represent the head of St. John the Baptist, in a charger; below is seen a lion, couchant. The legend runs thus:. Immediately after each word there is a star, there is also a crescent and a star (not united) before the initial letter. Date, t. Edward III.?

The Rev. Daniel B. Langley, L.L.D., vicar of Olney, Bucks, sent an impression from a brass matrix of circular form, measuring in diameter 1 in., discovered at Lavendon, near Olney, not far from the ruins of the castle. In the centre there is a head seen full face, possibly intended to represent either the Saviour (the vernicle or verum icon) or the head of the Baptist. It is surrounded by four small busts, the faces in profile, each turned in a different direction to that which is placed opposite to it. The inscription is in English: *. (non such as I.) Date, 14th century?

Mr. Way read a letter from Dr. Travis, of Scarborough, respecting a gold torques ploughed up in the spring of 1843, in a field between the villages of Scalby and Combouts. This ornament, of which Dr. Travis forwarded a drawing, is twisted, with hooks at the extremities; thirty-five inches in length, (exclusive of the hooks, which are each one inch and a half long,) and one-sixth of an inch thick. It is of very pure gold, and weighs 2$1⁄2$ oz. 1 dwt. By the liberal permission of Timothy Hardcastle, Esq., to whom it belongs, this torques is now deposited for inspection in the Scarborough museum. Representations of similar gold torques, discovered in Ireland, are given in the Vetusta Monumenta, vol. v. pl. 29. Dr. Travis added that many flint arrow-heads, and an urn containing calcined bones, were discovered at the same spot. The urn is figured in Archæologia, vol. xxx., with a description by Jabez Allies, Esq., F.S A.

Mr. Way read a letter from Monsign. C. L. Fisher, addressed to the Rev. J. L. Petit, to the following effect:—"Seeing that a report had been made to the Committee (Archæological Journal, No. vi. p. 197) by Mr. Minty, of Norwich, relative to the proposed destruction of an ancient building in that city, called the Strangers' Hall, for the purpose of erecting a convent on its site, I wrote to the Vicar Apostolic of the Eastern District, with whom I am personally acquainted, conceiving that my application would not be-