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Rh "Orate pro animabus Walteri Mauntell Militis et Elizabeth uxoris ejus uni' filiar' et hered' Joh'nis Abbot A'migeri qui quidem Walterus felicit' obiit xiii die mensis Junii anno D'ni mill'imo cccclxvii. quor' a'i'abus p'pitie(tur Deus amen)." The concluding words are concealed by the masonry.

Between the figures there is an escutcheon of the arms of Mantell, quartering, on a bend four lozenges, impaling a chevron between three inkhorns, (Abbot). There are four other escutcheons, the upper displaying the arms of Mantell, and Heyford, as before; the lower are—a stag's head, cabossed, and—a bend charged with four lozenges.

Mr. offered some observations on a collection of spoons, of silver, brass, plated brass, and pewter, exhibited to the meeting, and forming a series from 1573 to 1767, showing the periods when the different changes in their form were introduced. The form of spoons, in England at least, seems to have continued the same from the middle of the fifteenth century, as seen by the spoon of Henry VI., now preserved at

Hornby Castle, to the time of the Restoration, when it should seem that a new fashion was introduced, which completely superseded the ancient form. This ancient form is shewn by No. 1, and one of the spoons of this form exhibited, was made as late as 1655, as ascertained by the Hall mark;