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 166 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. secular costume, holding a falcon on his right hand, and a bird's gamb in his left, * s' lOHANNis FRAVNCEis. Circular matrix, diam. 2 | in. : it exhibits a scutcheon of the royal arms, France and England quarterly, a chapel with a central spire over it, and the date 1568. On the dexter side St. Peter, on the other St. Paul. : sigillvm. . . mmvne makiscvm DERVMNE : The church of New Church in Romney Marsh, one of the places of assembly of the bailiff and commonalty of the marsh, is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, and is, possibly, the sacred edifice intended to be pour- trayed on this seal. These two seals are also in Mr. Whincopp's collection. Circular matrix, date about 1300: device, four round-shaped leaves springing from one central point. *' le (or ie) i^amivct (?) found at Lin- coln. In the collection of Mr. Arthur Trollope. Circular matrix, of remarkably fine execution. The device, is a veiled female head, of great beauty. ^ capvt. marie, magdalene. Thirteenth century. Found at Monkton Farleigh, Wilts, and now in the possession of Mr. Wade Browne, of that place. Communicated by the Rev. Edward Wilton. Circular brass matrix of elegant design : in the centre the head of an ecclesiastic enclosed by a six-cusped panel, s' ioh' le lievre cl'. Possibly a member of the family of Hare, settled in various parts of Norfolk. Preserved in Mr. Fitch's collection. Impressions formed in gutta percha, from the matrix of the seal of the rural deanery of Ospreng, Kent : of which a representation is given in Lewis' history of Feversham. This interesting seal is in the possession of Mr. Faulkner Lee, of St. Albans. Impression from a curious matrix of pointed-oval form, belonging to Mr. Plowright, of Swaffham, Norfolk. It is the seal of the deanery of Breccles, in that county. The device is a Saracen's head. Sigillum Bccanat' He firccclgs. Date, fifteenth century. A circular merchant's mark and monogram of the sixteenth century, with the letters R W and I B ; found near the old priory at Rushford, near Thetford. Communicated by Mr. Greville J. Chester, the possessor of the seal last described. By the kindness of Mr. Nightingale we are enabled to give representa- tions of a very curious silver reliquary, preserved in his museum, and already known, probably, to some of our readers through the notice pub- lished, a few years since, in the^Gentleman's Magazine i. This interesting relic was found, with a silver chain, suspended from the neck of a skeleton in the churchyard of St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street, during the demolition of the old church, in 1831. It appears to be of Greek workmanship ; it is probable that the type of the designs which ornament it may have been taken from more ancient representations than the time when it was fabri- cated; which cannot be considered earlier than the sixteenth century. The outline of the form of this object is the mystic figure of two interlaced triangles : on one side is seen St. George, in the act of piercing the dra- gon ; on the other St. Helena, bearing the cross in her right hand, a book in her left, and in the back-ground are seen the buildings of Jerusalem. ^ Vol. xix. new series, p. 490, where a figure of the reliquary is also given.