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Rh shield at the base of the seal are those usually ascribed to Brembre; argent, two annulets, and a canton azure. Brembre, lord mayor of London in 1377, 1383-4-5, bore the same, with a mullet on the canton for difference. Numerous particulars concerning Brembre's " great chauntrye," as it was anciently called, are given in the History of Dorsetshire.

The curious seal of the sub-dean of Chichester here engraved, by permission of the Rev. Thomas Mozley, rector of Cholderton, Wiltshire, has been fully described in a former number of the Journal. It is a brass matrix, and was discovered six years since, in a field between the two parishes of Cholderton and Newton Toney, on the borders of Hampshire.

As a further illustration of the remarks on ancient drinking cups termed "Mazers," which appeared in the Archæological Journal, vol. ii. p. 263, we are enabled, by the kindness of Sir William Heathcote, Bart., to present the accompanying cut of a Mazer, which is evidently of an earlier age than the example in the possession of Mr. Shirley, which we have already figured; its date is probably early in the thirteenth century. It was found in the deep well in the ruined castle of Merdon, near Hursley, built by Bishop Henry de Blois, A.D. 1138. The material is apparently ashen wood, which was supposed to be gifted with certain medicinal or extraordinary qualities.



again give a sketch of some of the Transactions of this Society, not only as a compliment justly due, but also on account of the interesting matter communicated to it; referring for a more detailed statement to the "Programme of Questions" in the Gentleman's Magazine for May last, and to the forthcoming "Procès Verbal" annually published by the Society itself.