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 364- ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. HOC POSVERE VT ET TV VIATOR HOC TRISTI EXEMPEO COMOTVS I'ATA ETIA i(n) ANIMO PKRPENDEKS QVAM NIHIL HIC s(it) F1RMU.M AC STAUILE DISCAS REKV OMN. . . FORE ALIQUANDO VICISSITVDIKEM A SPREtiS REBVS MORTALIV DI.V IMORTA(lEm) TIMKRE. vale ET PUS TVIS PRECIBVS DEIVNCTVM DEO COMMENDA. Possibly exception might have been taken, in 1552, to the concluding sentence of this inscription, and on this account it might have been can- celled. Mr. Wilton has sought in vain to discover the person on whose decease it was prepared ; the unusual name of Dulcia or Dowse ought to supply a clue to identify him. Camden, amongst names of women, in his Remaines, gives " Douze, from the Latin Dulcia, that is, sweete- wench." Skinner derives Douze from the French, Douce. There is a village in North Wilts, called Dantsey, where the family was seated, and the name is given as an adjunct to several places in the county, as Wilsford Dantsey, &c. ; they had property in Calais, one of the family being governor of that town, Mr. Wilton is in possession of a seal, date circa 1600?, on which is a remarkable bearing, a lion rampant grappling with a wyvern, sigill : lOHis : datntesey. ar. without any crest". During recent repairs and restorations at Hemsby church, near Gi'eat Yarmouth, Norfolk, under the direction of the Rev. A. F. Bellman, the vaulting of the south porch having been cleared from a thick crust of white- wash, several sculptured bosses of good workmanship have been brought to light. There is a window with elegant tracery in the porch, and the south doors are ornamented with well-designed ironwork. Mrs. Bellman has obligingly communicated sketches of these details, which a2:)pear to be of the Perjiendicular period, and deserving of notice. The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and amongst the subjects of the bosses appear the Annunciation, the Nativity and the Assumption, with the Resurrection and Ascension, the last forming the central and principal subject. A memorial in this church, noticed by Blometield, recorded the benefaction of Thomas Bunne, "qui pavimentum hujus ecclesie lapidibus marmoreis fieri fecit, A.D. 1500." With regard to this marble pavement Mrs. Bellman reports that in various parts of the church are " a number of large squares of coarse dark granite, and intermixed with them are some few of a very dark colour, and very rough, which appear to be full of fossil gryphites." We regret to learn that the plan for the restoration of Hexham church, Northumberland, is likely to be abandoned. The subscrii:)tions received have proved wlioUy inadequate to defray the cost of the repairs, and of the purchase of the tenements adjoining the church, which it was desirable to pull down. The committee have recently made several appeals for local support, without success; but the church of Hexham is a building so iu- " Gules, a lion or, and lion rampant ar. and the Lancashire Dannceys bore the combatant, Danncey, of Gloucestershire. cockatrice alone. Some singular legend The Taunton family bore the lion argent, was doubtless commemorated by this coat.