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 190 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF served for many years in the possession of the family of Sydenham, of Combe, Somerset. They consist of three Books of " Horae," one of the use of Rouen, another of that of Poitiers, — all being exquisitely illuminated, with delicate borders of flowers and large drawings of sacred subjects, saints, &c. The first contains numerous entries relating to the Denys family, dated from 1550 to 1600. — ^A curious MS., relating to ceremonies and discipline, with forms of excommunication for a great variety of offences. — A MS. collection of French poems, thirteenth century, in its original oak boarding. — A beautiful MS. of the Vulgate, fourteenth century. — ^A large folio MS., beautifully written in Roman letter, the Homilies of St. Chrysostom, written, at the cost of Christopher Urswyke, for the Monastery of Hayles, Gloucestershire, in 9 Henry VIII. It is stated to have been written " arte Petri Magii Unoculi, Teutonis natione, Bra- bantini." — Also, a Psalter, with interlinear commentary, written, 1514, for the monastery of Hayles. A detailed account of these interesting MSS. will be given hereafter. By the Rev. Stephen Jenner. — A collection of various ancient remains found amongst the ruins of Clare Castle, Suffolk, during recent excavations made in the inner hallium. They consisted of decorative pavement tiles, mediaeval pottery, including specimens with coloured glaze, and some apparently of Anglo- Roman fabrication ; various objects of metal, fragments of painted glass, and some coins of different periods. A door-way was found, supposed to have formed part of the ancient church of St. John the Baptist in the Castle of Clare. Mr. Jenner communicated, also, a series of extracts from records and ancient evidences illustrative of the history of the castle and its possessors from the time of Edward I. By Mr. Whincopp. — Two armillse, supposed to be of x glo-Saxon workmanship ; one of silver, from Cuerdale ; the other of unusual form, one side being very broad, and ornamented with two dragons affrontes. Two bronze handles, discovered at Pompeii, probably parts of a vessel destined for the uses of the baths, and very similar in design to one repre- sented in the last Journal from the "Museum Disneianum." A silver ring, formed with a singular square facet, an intaglio, the he^ of Julius Caesar, on root of emerald, and some curious specimens of ancient glass, found in the bed of the Thames. By Mr. Hewitt. — Portion of the hair-cloth which formed the under- garment of one of the knights, whose tombs were opened in the Temple Church. The Rev. W. T. Coppard, local secretary in Devonshire, communicated sketches of a fine early English finial cross upon the eastern gable of the north aisle, at the church of Plympton St. Mary, a good exafiaple of that feature of architectural decoration. He stated, also, that during recent repairs, having noticed a part of the east wall, which appeared hollow and had been plastered and sanded over, just above the east window, he had removed the plaster and uncovered a quatrefoiled opening, apparently such as is found in churches of the Early English period, although not very frequent in those of minor dimensions. The window itself is evidently an insertion of transitional, or late Decorated, character, the original window having been much earlier.