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 188 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF and murderers flying from justice, are some singular prescriptions fm- diseiUsC'S, sliuwing the condition of medical science upon the Continent at about the period of Sir John Floyer's practice, in illustration of whose " Recipes" contributed by Mr. Hewitt, the owner kindly forwarded the little Volume. There were to be found in the volume two valuable remedies, one for gout, the other for tooth-ache, by the process of trans- plantation. — " Tseudoxia Epidemica," by Dr. Thomas Browne, Doctor of I'hyaic, IGGl) (author of " Keligio Medici"), in which, at Cap. x. of Book I. is the following singular passage : " But there is eveiy power in bitumen, pitch, or brimstone to purifie the aire fi*om his (the Devil's) uncleannesse ; that any vertue there is in Hipericon to make good tlie name of Jit<ia Demon is, any such magick aa is ascriljcd unto the root Bauras by Josephus, or Cynospastus by .Mlianus, it is not easie to believe, nor is it natundly made out what is delivered by Tobias, that by the fume of a fishe's liver he put to flight Asmodeus." By Sir Joux Maclean, F.S.A. — A deed of feotlVncnt of land in Tre- veniou, C(-'rnwall, in the thirteenth century. — Case for enclosing a snufl- grater, of ivory, carved in the style of the time of Louis XV. I.MPKESSioKS OF Seals. — By the Rev. W. Iago. — Small circular seal found in Cornwall ; the device is the Holy Lamb, bearing a cross-staft", with a gonfanon appended ; legend — prdve sx — (probably for — riuvE av) — diam. about | in. A matrix of a seal with the like device, allusive, pro- bably, to the cidtiis of the Baptist, was found lately at Penzance. Date, fourteenth century. By Mr. W. W. E. Wyxne, of Peniarth. — A small circidar seal ; date about 1 lOO. The device is a cross-shaft, to which is attached a double vane or pennon, and terminating below in a monogram like a merchant's mark. r>y Sir Jonx Maclean, F.S.A. — A small personal seal of circular form, measuring three-tpiarters of an inch in diameter, found, al)out 1840, by a laljourcr at Moor Cottage, in the parish of St. Austell, Cornwall. The device is an escutcheon, within a four-sided panel of tracery of fifteenth century character, and charged with a small animal, probably of the favourite Maltese breed {vK^litueus, or fotor) ; it has a long bushy tail recurved over the back, like that of a stpiirrel ; under its fore feet there is a cinquefoil. The legend, somewhat dillicult to be deciphered, appears to read as follows : — s' i .v. kevkk v.' — proliably for chrici This pretty little Hpeciiiion may bo of French workmanship, date about 14U0. It had been lately sent to Sir Jolm by Mr. William C le. Murcli 1, i>7L'. OcTAVIUS MOKOAN, Va^., M.l'. and V.l'., in the chair. The Skcuktary read the Addres-s of Congnvtulatioii whith had been voted by the Coiuicil of the Institute to II. 11. II. the Prince of Wales, on his recovery, and the answer which had been received to it, as folI<;MS : — " 'i'o His Royal Hitrhnes-s All»frt Ivlward Prince of Wales, K.O., K.T.(., C.B.. F.S.A., iVc, itc. "Sir, — We, the President, C(»nncil, and Monibcrs of tho Royal Archieological In.stitute of Creat P.ritain an<l Ireland, beg leave to be