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 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 191 By Mr. Allies. — Several coins and tokens found during the demo- lition of some buildings adjoining to the Abbey Church, at Great Malvern. Amongst them was one of the curious series of silver pieces attributed to Simon Pass, representing the royal family and sovereigns of England, and probably used as counters. Walpole states, in his Life of Hilliard, that he had a license for twelve years from James I., to grave portraits of the royal family, a source of great emolument to him, and that he employed Simon Pass and other ai'tists in engraving these small plates.' The piece found at Malvern represents William Rufus. Also, a Nuremberg jetton, on which appears a man seated at a counter-table, occupied in computation. Rev. the Alphabet. Compare Snelling, pi. r'., figs. 13, 14. By Mr. Franks. — Rubbings of two sepulchral brasses, remarkable not only on account of their good design, and the unusually elaborate work of the burin which they exhibit, but as bearing the name of the engraver, an unique instance, perhaps, of the record of any artist by whom such monu- mental plates were executed. These memorials are described by Pennant, who was stiTick with their superior design. They exist in the church of Llanrwst, Carnarvonshire, and represent several persons of the ancient family of the Wynnes, of Gwedir. Pennant mentions the portraits of Sir John Wynne, 16QG, his wife, and daughter, the work of Sylvanus Crew. He speaks, however, with still greater admiration of a half-length of dame Sarah, wife of Sir Richard Wynne, temp. Charles I., by William Vaughan.^ By Mr. Tdrnbull. — A representation of a rappoir, or -snuff-gi'ater, of ivory, beautifully carved. The original is preserved in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.^ It was announced, that, in compliance with the urgent recommendation of many members of the Institute, the Committee had determined to take more commodious apartments at No. 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East, where the rapidly increasing collections of the Society might be preserved, 60 as to be available for the use of the members, and a convenient reading- room established. The new apartments would also be sufficiently spacious for the monthly meetings of the Institute, hitherto held, by the liberal permission of the Institute of Civil Engineers, in their theatre in Great George-street, and would afford various facilities, which had been much desired by the members of the Society. May 4, 1849. Mr. Edward Hoare, local secretary at Cork, communicated a notice of the discovery of a very remarkable urn of baked clay, dark coloured, and most elaborately ornamented with patterns, impressed, apparently, by a pointed instrument or punch. Height about 14 inches. Mr. Hoare sent a representation of this unique specimen of Irish fictilia (see woodcut) which was found" in 1832, at " Caini Thierna," co. Cork, and is in the possession of the Rev. Mr. Ryder, in the same county. Very few Irish cromlechs, cairns, or tumuli have as yet been examined, and Mr. Hoare obsei'ves that a very small number of Irish urns have been noticed, or representations given, in antiquarian publications. Those known to him appear quite dissimilar in ' Walpolc's Anecdotes of Painting, edit. ^ See an account- and figure of another Dallaway, vol. i., p. 2,01. ivory ra/>poir,Archaeologia,vol. xxiii., p. 416. " Pennant, Tour in Wales, vol. ii., p. 144.