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78 ground, 3 feet of its entire length being buried, and in breadth 18 inches at the widest part. Mr. Haslam proposes to read the legend as follows:—ISNIOCVS VITALIS FILIVS TORRICI.Borlase considered this cross to be one of the most ancient Christian monuments in the county, and probably the memorial of a Roman-British Christian of the fourth or fifth century. Its present position is at the back-gate of the vicarage, near the churchyard, within the precinct of which, as it may be concluded, it had been originally placed. Mr. Haslam reports that several other inscribed monuments, apparently of very early date, still exist in various parts of Cornwall, and deserve careful investigation.

Mr. William Hylton Longstaff, of Thirsk, communicated, through Mr. Way descriptions of the stained glass, and representations of some portions thereof existing in the fine Perpendicular church of Thirsk observing that the comparison of examples of ancient decoration, symbolism, and costume, through the medium of correspondence between the Members of the Association, would prove highly advantageous. The existing glass in the nave was a few years ago collected by the zealous churchwarden of the place, Mr. Tutin, so as to fill one whole window, and the tracery of another. Several of the compartments have been arranged with accuracy and taste, but it is to be regretted that in many parts the ancient glass has been tampered with, and portions of the draperies have been restored in modern glass, without sufficient authority. Some parts, too, are in great confusion, owing to the miserable state of the glass, which had shared the fate of too many similar remains in the county.

The only figures which Mr. Longstaff has been able to appropriate are the following. 1. St. Margaret, beneath a canopy, having under her feet a dragon, and a cruciform spear in her hand. 2. St. Catherine, cor- responding in decorations with St. Margaret, with the sword and wheel. 3. St. Giles, in a blue robe, crosier in left hand, book in right, and the wounded doe springing up at him. Opposite this figure is another, also in a blue dress, having a mitre and crosier, kneeling before a table with a book open, and with a scroll round the head, "See Egidi ora p' nobis." The head, and other parts, have been restored (as it is stated, faithfully) in consequence of the originals being so much broken as to render it unadvisable to replace them. 4. Two beautiful figures labelled respectively "Anna—Cleophas." Cleophas is represented as an aged man, and the