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 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITL'TE. 197 him walk^, tells him now was the time to doe him right or never, to w''' motion of his, the Duke not vouchsafeiug an answere, Felton beeing of p'son low stabbs him over the shoulder to the heart, then leaves the Dagger, w'^'' the Duke him-selfe puUd-out, and w^'^ it made an offer at the Murderer, but in that proffer fcll-downe dead w'*' these words : Zounds, I am slaine, or as others will. Zounds the Rogue hath slaine mee ; the standers by w^h this affrighted and conceiving the howse beset w"'' Marry- ners, by their feares gave the Actor opportunity to have fled, who went onely out of the roome yet stay'd about the howse (such a Charme is blood as not to strengthen the Actor to goe out of the circle) after the generall feare quieted, the Murderer was sought for, and presents himselfe fearelesse w'"' this. Quern quseritis, adsum, Seeke yee him that killd the Duke I am the man. Beeing appr'hended and examined, continues resolute and fearelesse, and insists upon it, and would p'swade the first suggestion to proceede from a good Spirit, and would make God the Authour of this abhorred bloodshed, and him selfe home to free his Countrey. Vayn man, as if God cannot doe w"' all men what hee pleaseth w^'^out the helpe of man or will suffer man to revenge, ffor vengeance is mine, sayth the L '. " To M"" Smythe of Amr'ingale '' " HendexN, 2C Aur/usi, 1628." " From M John Heme. This curious letter is written on a sheet of foolscap; the direction is torn off, except the words, "to M Smythe." The writer, John Heme, was great-nephew of Nicholas Heme, who built the house at Amehnghall, and died s. p. That property fell to John, father of the writer, an eminent lawyer, settled at Hendon, Middlesex. The son was also of Lincoln's Inn, and died 1664. Blomefield gives the inscription on his monument, and other memorials of the family, at Ameringhall. Mr. Smythe appears to have married the widow of Xich. Heme, and she died in 1649. " John Smith " occurs in the register, buried there in 1647. ^iitiqutttcS mxis ©Korfi^ nf ^rt e^1)t6itrtt. By the Hon. RrcHAKD Neville. — An interesting and unusud relic of Roman age, a bronze chain or scourge, of very skilful workmanship. (Length, 16 in.) Its form is shown by the annexed representation, very kindly contributed by IMr. Neville. It was found in 1847, in digging foundations for a school, adjoining to the churchyard at Chesterford, Essex, and was taken from a cavity seven feet deep, with some third brass coins of Theodosius the Great, much defaced. The chain, supposed by some to have been part of the trappings of a horse, is well coated with jxitina : various imperial coins and Roman remains were found near it, as described by Mr. Neville in- his " Sepulchra Expositix," p. 60. It is not easy to assign a purpose to this chain. In its arrangement it bears some resem- blance to instruments of torture, called lAumhattB, when armed with plummets, such as have been found in the Catacombs at Rome, and are represented by Gallonius in his work " De Martyrum Cruciatibus." A curious example, formerly in the possession of Dr. Milner, of Winchester, is represented in the Archaeologia, vol. xxi., p. 541. The /frt///-^, however, " Aiiicringh.tll (IJlomcf.), now called Arniingliall, near Norwich. VOL. VI. P D