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 416 MEETINGS OF THE INSTITUTE. calendar, and shows the moon's age, &c. On the works is the maker's name, " Dauid Eamsay Scotus me fecit." David Ramsay was an eminent artificer in the times of James and Charles I. He was the first master of the Company of Clock -makers on their incorporation, 7 Charles I. 1631.® Underneath a small shield, which conceals the hole for winding, is the name of the engraver, " Gerhart de Heck scidps." " It is the property of Miss Boulby of Durham. It has been long in her family, and is supposed to have come to them from the Eussells of Woburn. By Mr. Bryant. — A tall octagon drinking-glass, with small hoops of blue glass at intervals, possibly for the same purpose as the pegs in ancient peg- tankards. Also, a wooden spice-mill, curiously carved with Tudor roses, the mechanism turned by a winch. It is a curious reUc of domestic usages of the sixteenth century, and, as well as the glass, had come from the old mansion at KntUng, Cambridgeshire, formerly the residence of the North family. By Mr. W. B. Utting. — A small bronze mortar and pestle, the former inscribed,— LOF • GODT • VAN • AL • (Praise God for all) A" • 1640, and ornamented with wreaths of flowers, &c., in relief. It has been many years in the possession of a family at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and is'supposed to have been cast in HoUand. The words appear, however, to be Flemish"; the same motto is found on a small bronze hand-bell, presented by Dr. Eawlinson to the Society of Antiquaries, and inscribed, — Johannes a Fine A'' 1547 me fecit — Lof God van al. (See Vetusta Monumenta, vol. ii., PI. xvii.) ^ See Mr. Octavius Morgan's History of the Clockmaker's Company, Archaeologia, vol. xxxiii., p. 95. ^ This artist is not named hy Walpole, nor in Bryan's Dictionary. He was possibly of the same family as Nicholas Vander Heck, a painter at the Hague, about 1600, or John V.andcii Hecke, who was settled at Antwerp, about 1650. NOTE ON THE GRANT BY WILLIAM DE HERYGHES. (Given at page 280.) Since the publication of the last Journal, we have been favoured with suggestion.? from several correspondents, to whom our thanks are due, for their careful examin- ation bestowed on the little document kindly communicated by Mr. Thomas Hart. It may not be uninteresting to some of our readers to be informed, that, as Mr. Smirke has kindly pointed out, the grantor doubtless took his siu-name — de Heryghes, from Harrow-on-the-Hill, whilst on his seal he is described as the son of Richard de Wald', namely, of Harrow Weald. The name of that place is written Heargc and Hergas, Dipl. Ang. Sax. i., pp. 282, 297 ; Herges, in Domesday ; Harghes, Mon. Angl., i., 96 ; Hereghes, Plae. Abb., f. 137, a. The last is of the same age*as the deed in question. Mr. Smirke justly observes, that the phrase " absque poUicibus mcnsuratis," in the measurement, means, without reckoning inches, — tlie measure was 12 Statute ells and a fraction. We were unable to explain the designation — hlacter. It appears highly proljable that it is the French hlactkr, or hlaatkr, a dealer in corn.* (Depping, Livre des Metier.s, and Taille de Paris, A" 1292.) « Rosser le Paumer, Bladcr,''' is named in Lib. do Ant. Leg., as one of the sheriffs of London, t. Edw. II. This seems to be a translation of Uadariua, in another record. It has, however, been suggested that the word may signify a boater of metal, the hatour or bractcator, some- times called Blatliarius, Ducango.
 * See Rofiuefort, v. Bhiticr, bhivetier, bladicr, &c. Due, v. Blatlcrius.