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 100 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF numerous documents connected with its history, as also an impression of the conventual seal, which he exhibited. This memoir will be given in a future Journal. Mr. Lucas directed the attention of the meeting to a series of specimens of ancient painted glass, in his possession, and which he had with much kindness brought to London, and arranged for the gratification of the Society on this occasion. He stated that he had purchased this curious collection some years since at Guildford, and it was reported to have been acquired from an old mansion in Surrey. It comprised several fine royal atchievements and badges, which had led to the conjecture that it might have formed part of the spoils of Nonesuch Palace. Mr. Lucas had, however, in vain sought to ascertain the history of these interesting works of art. Mr. Winston offered some remarks on the painted glass exhibited by Mr. Lucas, of which he has subsequently supplied the following notices. This series of specimens may be described as extending from about the middle of the thirteenth century, until the reign of James L The most perfect examples consist of heraldry, and small circular subjects of the time of Henry VIII. ; but the rest may be considered as almost equally valuable to the student, desirous of familiarising himself with the distinctive features that characterise glass paintings of different dates. The collection comprises, — The upper half of a s mall figure of the middle of the thirteenth century — A group consisting of two figures, wanting their heads, who appear to be in the act of depositing something on the ground with their hands. A piece of glass has been inserted between them, which resembles the conventional representations of the inside of a coffin — a similar piece is inserted on one side of the group. This appears to be of the last half of the thirteenth century. There are also two Early English quarries, and four fragments of Early English pattern work. The Decorated remains consist of a very early single red rose, now inserted in a circle made up of leaves, of the time of Henry VIII. — Some canopy work, foliaged scrolls, and a portion of a castle border, of the time of Edward I. There are also remains of a border of lions' heads. And, of later date, fragments of draperies, inscriptions both in Lombardic and Black letter, and small circles representing lions' heads, and a human head, of the period of transition between the decorated and perpendicular styles. Among the Perpendicular remains, is a series of letters, crowned, which formed part of an early border ; a quarry representing two birds reading out of a book — a quarry with a flower tricked out on it, and one or two specimens of tracery lights, which have been glazed with ornamental quarries, set square-wise. None of these seem earlier than the middle of the fifteenth century. There are one or two examples of quarries representing the badge of Henry VII., the crown suspended in a hawthorn bush ; and a badge, a boar's head erased, also a great collection of fragments of draperies, canopies, angels, and the heads of saints, bishops, patriarchs, from about the beginning of the reign of Henry VI., to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Of the cinque-ccnto period, are several heads and fragments of draperies, and ornamental work, with a great many fragments of crowns, wreaths, roses, ami of the inscription " Dicu ct mon droit," which has been used