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 110 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF Bv Mr. Trollope. Facsimile of a beautiful ring-fibula, found in Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight, aud here represented (slightly reduced) from a draw- ing bj Lieut. Col. Trollope. This interesting ornament appears to be of the early part of the fifteenth century. The dimensions of the original are, about 2^ in. by 2j. By the Rev. E. Wiltox. — Rubbing from the curious tomb of Ilbertus de Chaz, bearing two inscriptions, which have been engraved in Gough's edition of Camden's Britannia, and Bowles' History of Lacock Abbey, where this memorial, found at Monkton Farley, Wilts, is now preserved. By the Rev. E. Jarvis. — A gold ring, stated to have been found in the Isle of Man. The workmanship is of rude and primitive character, bearing resemblance to that of Saxon artificers : it bears no device, but is orna- mented with a thin quatrefoiled plate in place of a setting. By Mr. IIoLDEN, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. — A beautiful little gold ring, of the fifteenth century ; on the facet is engraved a figure of St. George, the hoop wreathed, and originally enamelled with flowers. It was found in a cutting for the Birmingham Railway, near Oxford. By Mr. Bershard Smith. — A double-barrelled dag, ^Yith two wheel- locks, having the slide to cover the pan ; the barrels are placed vertically, one over the other. — A troopers' pistol, with a wheel-lock of the simplest form, of the time of Charles II. Brooch found in Carisbrook Castle February 6, 1852. OcTAYius Morgan, Esq., M.P., Vice-President, in the Chair. Mr. Franks gave a report of the accessions, during the past year, to the collection of national antiquities in the Briti-sh Museum, and made honourable mention of the donors, through whose liberality the series now in course of arrangement in the *' British Room " had beeu augmented.' Mr. G. ScnARF, Jun., kindly laid before the meeting the drawings which he had just completed, representing the remains of an ecclesiastic found at St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, and he related the particulars noticed by him whilst engaged upon that work. The di-scovery had been made in the latter part of January, in the removal of the lower portion, or bagsa capella, of St. Stephen's, and Mr. Scharf described the state of the body as seen by him shortly after, wrapped in layers of cere-cloth, tied on with cords, and deposited in a cavity in the North wall. On Jan. 31st, Mr. Scharf attended the examination of the body, and his drawings illus- trated the progressive appearances, as the cloth, which adhered tightly, Thib rcpoi't will be found in this volume, ante, p. 7.