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82 parish of Barton, near Cambridge, and now deposited in the museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (see Cut). Few remains of this kind are to be found in Cambridgeshire. The only complete pavements are at Ely. One or two patterns are in Little Shelford Church and in King's College Chapel, on the latter the patterns are impressed. A castle appears on a tile at Great Bedwyn, in Wiltshire, which greatly resembles the present example. This has been supposed to allude to Eleanor of Castile. Birds are not uncommon on tiles, though more generally placed on boughs of foliage, curling out from a central stem. The tiles at Bedwyn furnish proofs that the pattern was impressed from more than one block. The design consists of a castle in the centre, and rings at three of the corners. In no two instances are the rings in quite the same position; in one instance they are altogether wanting, though the castles are identical. A castle appears also on a tile at Bayeux Cathedral.

Mr., of Pocklington, Yorkshire, communicated facsimiles of Sepulchral Brasses existing at Howden, in that county, including the effigy previously noticed in the Journal by the Rev. W. Drake, as an instance of the misappropriation of such memorials. (See vol. ii., p. 189). It would appear to represent Peter Dolman, Esq., Counsellor at Law, who died in 1621. but is manifestly to be referred to the previous century. The inscription is on a plate which had formed part of a female figure, as appears by the lines engraved on the reverse. These plates being detached are now kept in the vestry at Howden church, and Mr. Smith stated that he had been informed by Mr. Sugden, of that place, that some years since there was another figure with these, representing a man in robes like a priest; this memorial, now lost, may have been the effigy of the counsellor, rather than the figure of earlier date. Mr. Smith sent also a rubbing from the inscription commemorative of Lady Margaret Clifford, wife of John Lord Clifford, called "the Butcher," from the number of Yorkists slain by his hand at the Battle of Wakefield; and another from the mural brass, in the small church of Kilnwick Percy, to the memory of Thomas Woods.