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 4(34 PKOCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OP rule of St. Augustine were united into one order by Pope Alexander IV., about the year 1356. Circular seal of a chantry of St. Anne, of Cleves. Fifteenth century. It represents the Virgin and Child, with St. Anne ; beneath is a scutcheon of arms :— ^iS- {B cantaitE. ^c'f anne • tJc * cUbtiS'. Circular seal of the Jurisdiction of Cleves ; the device, St. George and the Dragon : — KLEVISCHER GERICHTS SIGEL. Dated 1701. Impressions from a ring of mixed metal ; the device, the Virgin and Child ; and from a massive gold ring (weighing 18 dwts.), found at Stamford in 1847, at a place called " The Nunnery Burial Ground." It was found in a stone coffin. The impress is a kind of merchant's mark, with the initials E. S. Mr. Sulley sent also a drawing of a curious medieval vessel, found in Jidy last at a depth of 17 ft. beneath the site of Thurland Hall, built by Thomas Thurland, Mayor of Nottingham, in 1419. It resembles the vessels found at Oxford, and represented in the Jonrnal ; * but it has a large E. reversed marked upon it. Height 10^ in., circumference 20 in. Mr. Allies presented to the Museum of the Society a collection of various relics of the Eoman age, found in April, 1847, at Droitwich, compris- ing an urn, supposed to have been used in the manufacture of salt, fragments of tessellated pavement and pottery, which were laid before the meeting. This discovery, interesting as tending to prove the site of the Sal'mcB of Eoman times, has been stated in detail in a previous volume of the Journal.^ Mr. Allies remarked that the occurrence of iron nails, of somewhat peculiar form, had not been mentioned in that report, and he regarded the fact as deserving of record, having been informed by the Dean of Hereford that nails, identical in form, had been noticed at Kenchester, supposed to have been used in Eoman times to fasten the tiles of roofing. The Dean had also found similar nails in the course of recent investigations of Eoman remains in Wiltshire. They most nearly resemble what are termed " clout nails." The surface of the little chest, found at Eainbow Hill, near Worcester, in railway operations, was thickly set with nails of similar form, but mostly of greater length. Mr. Allies presented to the Society this singular little coifer, of which an account may be found in the Journal (Vol. iv., p. 149). By Mr. Yates. — Eepre sen tat ions of some very singular celts, preserved in the Cabinet of Antiquities, at the National Library, Paris. These valuable examples are given amongst the illustrations liberally presented by Mr. Yates, and will be found in a previous part of this Journal. The Eev. W. Gunner, by kind permission of Greville J. Chester, Esq., exhibited the following collection of ancient relics, from his cabinet : — A bull's head, of mixed metal, of the colour of bell-metal, found, with Eoman remains, at North Waltham, Hants. — A small figure of a knight, sleeping, of copper, found at Popham, in the same county ; it is armed in the ring mail and surcoat of the thirteenth century, and was probably affixed as an ornament of a shrine, or other sacred ornament, to which it appears to have been attached by rivets. (See wood-cuts.) — A cii'cular brass seal of some religious house ; it bears the figure of St. Peter in the centre, with the follow- •' Archaeological .lournal, vol. iii. p. fi'J. '" Vol. iv. pp. 73, Hfi.