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 198 ROMAN REMAINS IN CADBURY CASTLE, DEVON. frao-meiits of urns. These fuiiebrioiis vessels have been found here of different sizes ; one of very uncommon dimensions as well as materials, being of fine clay only half an inch thick, and entirely plated in the inside with brass. It was capable of containing ten gallons, and was filled with ashes^" The soil of Cadbury hill is chiefly of the red sand and marl prevalent in that part of Devon. Quite at the base of the hill, and very considerably below the level of the bottom of the shaft described, a spring bursts forth so copiously as to turn a mill not far from the source. C. TUCKER. NOTICE OF A MEDIEVAL MIMIC ENTERTAINMENT RESEMBLING THE MODERN PUNCH AND JUDY. The representation here submitted to the readers of the Archaiological Journal is taken from an outline delineation at the foot of one of the pages of the celebrated MS. of the Roman d' Alexandre, preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and executed between the years 1338 and 1344"*. ' Tour in Scotland, vol. iii. p. 109. » At the close of this fine MS., which is known by the class-mark, 2161', Bod. 261', the (late of completion of the scribe's por- tion of the work is thus recorded — " Ro- mans du boin Iloi Alixandre, qui fu pere- scri}>t le xviij. jor de Decenibre, I'an M.CCC.xxxviij." The illumination of the volume was not completed until six years later, as thus stated — " Che livre fu per- fais de le enluminure au xviij. jour d' Avril, per Johan de Guse, I'an de grace, M.CCC. xliiij." The artist was possibly a native of Gulte, in I'icardy, on the confines of the Netherlands.