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 THE ARCHAEOLOGICA!. INSTm'TH. p,]: By the Rev. Edwin Jauvis, of Ilaektlioni, Linculii. — .Several riii<,r- fibuhe of bronze, of the Saxon period, found in Lincolnshire : prescntiuji; varieties from the flat ring, impressed with a border of lines or punctured marks, to the type formed of a rounded bar, grooved around, as if in imita- tion of a cord. The acus was invariably of iron. The dimensions of these ornaments varied from 1 i to 2 inches. Fibulaj of similar form, fmm Carcby, were exhibited at a former meeting by the Rev. Hugh Maclean. By Mr. Jon.s Niciioll, F.S.A. — Three ancient relics, consisting of a mazer, diam. .about G inches, mounted with silver ; a silver salt, parcel gilt, and a standing cup formed of a cocoa-nut harnessed with silver gilt. They are part of the ancient plate of the Ironmongers' Company. A pair of mazers remain in their possession, formed of wood, apparently of the maple : in the centre of each, on the inner side, is a flat boss of metal, to which is affixed an enamelled roundel of the arms of the company — Arg. on a chevron gules, three swivels or between three steel gads azure.' Tliese enamelled plates have been renewed in recent years. The rim of one mazer is plain, the other bears the inscription — Sue. mait'a. gva'. plena. linsi. tecum. b'ntitcta. tu. i. miiltertb^. t. btncliictug. fructiisi. The.-e mazers are not raised upon feet : it has been customary to display them upon the buflet of the Company by raising them on two silver salts, in form resembling an hour-glass, of which one was exhibited. These last appear to be of the early part of the sixteenth century. No notice of these bowls appears in the inventories of the Ironmongers' Company ; this is accounted for, Mr. NiclioU observed, by their having formerly belonged to the Yeomanry, whose records being unimportant have not been preserved. The form of the mazers is very similar to that of one in the possession of Mr. Evelyn Shirley, represented in Archreol. Journal, vol. ii., p. 2G3. Mr. Joseph Clarke sent for exhibition another flat mazer, mounted with a silver-gilt rim, and having a silver roundel within the bowl, on which is engraved a figure of the Virgin and Child, surrounded by rays. The material seems to be the wood of the maple ; and the grain is mottled and curiously curled, appearing to show that it was formed from the bulging knot or knurle of the tree. This bowl has been preserved at the charitable Institution at Saft'ron Walden, Essex, now designated as Edward Vlth's Almshouses. The present rules for its government were drawn up in his reign, in 1550 ; but the foundation is much earlier, and the following record occurs in one of the registers : " In the year 1400, the most wor- shipful men and parishioners of Walden, by the help of the eommonaltie "jf the said town, ordained and made a house of charitie in Daniel's lane, in honour of God, and the sustentacion of xiij. poore men." In the nldest books of the charity mention is thus made of a mazer : " Yt ys wrytyn and set in mende and memorye, how that in y"^ ferste founda- -jon and begynnyng of this dede of charyte, a worschipful man, naymed Mayster Rogere Waldene, at that tyme Erchbyschop of Cauntyrberry," <tc. L'ave certain benefactions ; as also did others, and a list ensues, with value jf each item, including — " a mazer, price of xl.s. the wheche mazer Margaret Breychman gaf to serve in the foreseyd house perpetual, for the oules of her and Stephen Breychman, and all her friends." Roger Walden, k native of the town, was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in 1398, (ranted in 14,5.5. The company w:s in- florid Roman capital A. orporated in 1462. The year mark on ' VOL. VIII. F F
 * These amis are said to have been the silver mounting of the mazer is the