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 98 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF within it, and thus stands both for the word est, and the vowel E. The following distich accompanies the figure : — " Quid signat rota mihi die, et postea pota, Vel properante pede sine potu surge recede." By Mr. Freeman. — Various ancient relics of metal, and fragments of medieval pottery, found at Burg Town, in the township of Broad Blundon, Wilts, and exhibited through the kindness of Mr. Benger, of that place. The spot, where vestiges of many periods have been found, is adjacent to a large camp. Considerable traces of foundations have been brought to light. Amongst the objects produced was a fragment of a torc-armlet of bronze, similar to those found with Roman remains ; also antique keys, spurs, weapons and implements of iron. Mr. Yates exhibited, through the kindness of Lady Fellows, two beautiful objects, in her possession : one of them being a small gold crown, set with rubies, emeralds and pearls, intended probably to decorate an image of the Virgin Mary. Its date appears to be the fourteenth century. It was found, in 1772, on the east side of the White Tower, in the Tower of London, and brought before the Society of Antiquaries, by Dean Mills. (Archaeologia, vol, v., p. 440.) The other is an enamelled gold ring, decorated with filagree. It is a Jewish betrothal token, and is formed with a little ridged capsule, (like the gabled roof of a house) in place of any setting ; this is attached by a hinge to the collet of the ring, and probably contained some charm or perfume. Within the ring are inscribed two Hebrew words, signifying good luck, — " fortuna bona, qua; vox gratulantis est et optantis alteri prosperitatem alicujus rei."^ By Mr. Westwood. — Rubbings of two sepulchral memorials, the first an incised slab, at Little Hampton, near Hereford ; it represents a lady of the fifteenth century ; the figure is of very exaggerated length, a peculiarity of design which may be noticed in other incised effigies on stone, in Staftbrd- shire, Shropshire, &c. The other was from a small brass, a recent addition to the small list of Welsh sepulchral brasses ; it is the bust of a priest, found in excavations at St. David's. It was preserved at the residence of the Archdeacon of Brecon. By Mr. R. Fitch. — Impressions of the remarkable " Palimpsest " brass, lately discovered at Norwich, during the repairs of St. Peter's Mancroft Church. On one side appears the effigy, in armour, of Peter Rede, well known by Cotman's etching ; the figure, as also the inscribed plate under its feet, having been detached from the slab, the reverse of each was found to he engraved. The primary memorials, of which these plates had formed part, appeared to have been Flemish works of more than ordinary richness of design, of the fifteenth century, and resembling the brasses of that period existing at Bruges. Peter Rede died in 1568, but his effigy is a design of much earlier date, (about I4G0). Mr. Fitch has had the kind- ness to present rubbings, to be placed in the collection of the Institute. By Mr. F. M. Lyte. — A bronze spear-head, found in the recent drainage of Whittlesey Mere ; two ancient keys, and a brass ro welled spur, fifteenth century, found near Totnes, Devon. Also, an impression from a circular bronze Italian seal, reported to have been found in the same county, bearing an armorial escutcheon, two horses' heads couped at the neck, and - Buxtorf, Lexicon Chald.