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76 place there is also a cross of later character, apparently erected in the fifteenth century, on which is still seen the figure of the crucified Saviour, unbroken, and several armorial escutcheons: it is raised on a pedestal of three steps.

A letter was then read, addressed to the Secretaries by the Rev. H. Longueville Jones, of Manchester, requesting the advice of the Committee how to proceed in forming more complete accounts of certain monastic establishments than are contained in Dugdale's great work, instancing Penmôn, and Ynys-Seiriol, in Anglesey, and Bardsey Island, in Caernarvonshire. Mr. Jones also enquired whether the Committee would preserve such documents and drawings as might be collected in any survey or special investigation of such subjects, and added some remarks on the utility of a good list of desiderata previously to the inspection of particular districts, expressing his opinion that the publication by the Committee of a set of Instructions, similar to those issued by the French "Comité Historique," would be a valuable auxiliary to archæological research.

Another letter was read from Mr. H. L. Jones, stating that the railroad about to be made from Chester to Holyhead will pass in the immediate vicinity of the following ancient remains, which may possibly thereby suffer some injuries. In Flintshire, a Roman road, and some British and Saxon works; in Caernarvonshire, the Roman station at Conway, the castle, and the town walls there, which were built by Edward I.; between Aber and Bangor, the road from Conovium to Segontium; in Anglesey, the communication between Segontium and Holyhead, and the Roman walls which are still standing at the latter place. Mr. Jones therefore suggests that, as in the cutting of this line many valuable objects of antiquity will probably be brought to light, the Committee should apply not only to the London and Birmingham railroad company, and to its engineer, Mr. Stephenson, but also to the chief land-owners (some of whom are members of the Association), through whose property it is to pass; and urge them, with especial care of old Conway