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 150 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. stance a farrier displays a horse-shoe, liammer, and nails, the legend being " S' l^a^)u^ J¥larcscl)ar 0' i:cbccl)ie »' IBurcme." i. e. " the seal of Ralph the farrier of the bishopric of Durham." We are indebted to Mr. Hylton Longstaffe, of Darlington, for an impression and drawing of this interesting object. Among impressions of medieval seals which have been recently for- warded to the Committee for inspection, may be noticed one of a brass seal of the fifteenth century, found in the wall of Fordington church, Dorset- shire, and now in the possession of H. J. Moule, Esq., of Corpus Christi Col- lege, Cambridge. It is in the shape of a shield, and the devices on it are a quatrefoil within a circle ; in chief, the letters i. n. l. i. An impression of a brass seal of very rude character, but apparently also of the fifteenth cen- tury, has been sent, with the preceding, by C. H. Manning, Esq., of the same college; it is now in his possession, and was found, August, 1846, at Diss in Norfolk. It represents St. John the Baptist, having on one side a palm branch, on the other an Agnus Dei, on what appears to be intended for a raised nimbus ; the legend being * ecck Sgnvs del Mr. Manning sup- poses that the letters i. N. L. i. on Mr. Moule's seal may be cabalistic. Mr. Robert Fitch, F.G.S., of Norwich, has forwarded an impression of a massive gold seal recently found at Sprowston, near that city, and now in his cabinet. Within an oval is a shield bearing two dolphins resjiecting each other; in chief, three escallop shells. It may be referred to the seven- teenth century. Mr. T. W. King, Rouge Dragon, observes, with reference to this seal, that he has found the coat sketched, without any name being annexed, among a collection of Norfolk arms : the colours are or two dolphins &c. sable; on a che( ffuies three escallops argent. The Rev. George H. Dashwood, of Stow Bardolph, has communicated an impression from a circular brass matrix, found at Lynn, in Norfolk, during the last year, and now in the possession of Mr. Valentine, of that place. It exhibits a scutcheon of the arms of Fitzwalter, a fess between two chevrons, on the fess an annulet. The scutcheon is surmounted by a helm with lambrequins and the crest, a talbot's head ? with the following- ing legend, ^^I'stllu : ll'nt: toa'tt : fi'tjtoniU'. Mr. Dashwood supposes this to have been the seal of the last Sir Walter, lord Fitzwalter, a distinguished leader in the wars of Henry V. He died about A.D. 1432, and the honours and possessions passed into the Radcliffe family'. Another interesting example of the use of an antique intaglio as a secretmn, or privy seal"^, was submitted to the inspection of the Society, at one of the monthly meetings, by the obliging permission of Mr. Allingham, of Reigate. It is a gold signet ring, set with a cornelian, the device being ' Dufrdale's Bar., vol. i. p. 22L Bloiiic- tliis manner, Arcliscol. Journal, vol. iii. field's Norfolk, vol. i. p. 9. edit. 180-5. p. 7<). "■ See a notice of antique gems used in