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 194: PROCEEDINGS AT MEKTINGS OF " Collectanea Topograpliica et Geuealogica," asMr. J. Gough Nichols pointed out, a similar rull is ])iinted fur the year 1G18, which wivs then in the pos- session uf the lute Sir Cluirles G. Young, Garter-King-at-Arnis. It exactly corresponds in fonn and character with that now exhibited. In the Pulthc Record Office are seven rolls of Accounts of the (Jentlcmen Pen- sioners uf the reign of Charles I. Among them is one for the eleventh year, a|iparently a duplicate of that belonging to Mr. Golding, but it is in such had condition that they can scarcely be compared. The Rolls canje from the vaults in Somerset House, and are all more or less injured. The accounts begin in the reign of Philip and Mary, and there exist thirty-four rolls of that reign and Queen Elizabeth. In 1(!11 the Earl of Nortluunberland was accused by an old servant of complicity in the (.!un|X)wder Plot, and one of the charges against him was that he had jiei-suaded his brother to admit Thomas Percy as a "gentleman pen- .sioncr " without taking the oath of allegiance. Many particulai-s about members of the corps, which comprised many ])ersons of rank and military men of position, may be found among the State papei-s of the time. See a letter from the King to the I'arl of Northumberland, 18th May, 1<J0.3, setting out the conditions of their service. In Pegge's "Curialia" (178-1, tjuarto) is "A memoir regarding the King's Honoin*- able Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, from its establishment to the present time.'' By the Htni. W. 0. St.wley, ^I. P. — A cake of copper, weighing 20 lbs. 6 oz., impres.sed with a Roman stamp, found in Anglesca. By Mr. C. D. E. Foktnlm, F.S.A. — A vase-urn of the later bronze period, from Marino, near Albano, Italy. — Roman lamp, with portraiture of our Lord (?), in early Byzantine style. — Medal, with profile of our Lord, fifteenth century ; barely 33 inches in diameter. (This is figured in Mr. Way's "Notes," facing p. l»i!>. By Mr. E. M. Dkwing. — Four photographs of a sculptured stone or column, apparently of a memorial character, found at (Jodmanchester. — Aniustatic drawing of a nunal painting lately found in Bramford Church, Suft'olk, representing a cross, with angels. The stone found at God- riianchester is 2U inches long, 8 inches thick, and 10 bn>ad, and is pro- Ijably of the twclftli century. On one side is carved a full length lignre of an ecclesiastic with the name tiiomas as a superscription. The hands are uplifted in the attitude of blessing, and alujve the inscrijttion is an angel. On the reveise — which seems to be divided into three ecpial coiii|)urtnient8 — at the top is an angel holding a cen.ser ; beneath, a fdlct. Then a vesica piscU enclosing our Lord in blessing attitu<le, nind)od. On the Hpan<lrel8 above the imira are A (0 . On the spandrels below are two ornamental V(jluteH. lU;neath runs the inscription :■ - wii.i, COCK I'Kc 1'. Ai. ... IS [I'atrisi] I'[»on the Kiibject of this piece of Hcid])ture the Rev. I)r. Valpy I'leiich contributed some remarks to the Society of Antiipuiries in the mouth of February Iiwt. By ^Ir. !•;. I'kpvh.— Bron/.e weapons found near Flixborough, in the north of LincohiHliirc, uliout three or four miles .soutlieast of the point where tiie Trent fallH into the Ilumber. 'i'liey were diHC<)vere<i b)- ii ploui^h being used which turned up the ground deeper than before. They consiHt of Rovcn ccltM of bronze, one loopecl ; a spear-head, with Kocket, enlii'c; n fragment of spcar-hcad, the point oidy, three inches in