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 400 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF DE HILTUNE," and is now preserved in the Whitby Museum. Another is in the possession of the Eev. C. R. Manning, and a third, found near Lincoln, is in Mr. Albert VVay's collection. This last, as well as the seal found at Warke, is perforated at one end, as if for suspension, and they may possibly have been worn with a certain notion of talismanic virtue attributed to jet. Mr. Harrison has very kindly presented the accompanying woodcut. The device upon this seal is the ileur de lys, so frequently found on seals of this period, the legend ^ AVE : MARIA : GRACIA. The lily may be perhaps regarded as used with some symbolical allusion to the Virgin. Mr. Chakles E. Long communicated a note of a sepulchral cross-slab of very diminutive size, having the symbol of the scissors or shears, to the import of which attention had lately been called at the Meetings of the Institute. It has for many years been in the garden of Mr. Howard's steward, at Greystoke Castle, near Penrith. Dimensions, length about 14 in., the breadth at the top 9 in., at the foot 7iin. The cross gradated, in form very similar to that at Southwell Minster, given by Mr. Cutts in his " Manual of Sepulchral Slabs," pi. xliv. At the dexter side appear a pair of pointed shears. Mr. Long remarked, that at Kirk Oswald, Cumberland, during recent repairs of the church, four or five cross slabs had been found concealed under the pavement. They are now placed in the church-yard. On one of these memorials appear two crosses, one having a sword and shield charged with arms, a chevron indented, within a bordui-e," at the side, the other with a pair of shears, and traces of an inscription, of which the words VXOR EIVS are plainly legible. This example Mr. Long considered as strongly corrobo- rative of the supposition that the shears served to indicate the interment of a female. One of the slabs, Avith a cross and sword, has a date — ilftc iacft MyeS ItotJtIjtnt qni obitt yhi" Kic fHartti .a°. i3i. 1466, cujufi mxinu, kc. The family named Lowthin still exist in the parish. Mr. Franks described and exhibited a rubbing of another sepulchral memorial of singular design. It is a cross of brass, inlaid on the slab, and is formed by interlaced bands, bearing some resemblance to the knot- work of a much earlier age, but more simple in arrangement. It marks the tomb of Richard Pendilton, in the service of Giles, created Lord Daubeney by Henry VII. in 1486. Under the cross is a plate bearing the following inscription : — i?ic inctt Jiltfaillug ptntJiUon quo'Uam ig'it'nsi p'potmtt^ bill (Sflitiij tJaiDbnfu | i^tgi n'ro ilfurico grptimo Camcrarit (Qui obtit ^nno tj'ni iiltU'mo | cccco ijo xxo Hit ^fptcmbris Vyn U'nifalt 33 cuV a*tc p'picictur tieus. Smr. This memorial is in the chancel of Eversley Church, Hants, the slab form- ing part of the pavement. Length of the cross, 6 feet 3 inches. By Mr. Albert Way. — Impressions from a sepulclu-al brass of the fourteenth century, at Ghent, representing a warrior and his lady. Repre- sentations Avill be given in the next Number of the Journal. By THE Rev. T. Faulkner Lee, of St. Albans.— A plan and sections from accurate measurement, representing the Roman remains and tessellated ' Possibly, as Mr. Long observes, the bordurc may not be heraldic, but only the margin of the shield.