XV. Explanation of a Seal of the Abbey of Lundores,

in Scotland, by the Rev. John Brand, Secretary. In a Letter addreffedtoOwenSalu&ury Brereton, Efq. Vice Prcfident. Read May n, .1797. SIR, Somerfet Place, May 20, 1797. THE matrix of a very old feal, (made, it mould feem, of the bone of fome animal) and which you did me the honour to put into my hands laft week for the purpofe of finding out to what place it belonged, I have the pleafure to inform you I am now able, under the correction of this learned Society, to explain. It has not, as you were induced from the fimilarity of names to fuppofe, the fmalleft connexion with London, the metropolis of England, but is a Scottim feal, and mofl probably the firft and ori- ginal one of the rich Abbey of Lundores in the fbreft, on the river Tay, by the town of Newburgh, in Fifemire, founded by David, earl of Huntingdon, brother to William, king of Scotland, on his return from the Holy Land, A. D. 1 178,, for Tyronenfes. This matrix reprefents the Virgin Mary feated, with our Saviour in her lap, holding a branch in her right hand, and the abbey of Lnn- dores in her left. PL XIII. fig. 4. The infcription runs thus : " Sigillttm Sanfle Marie et Set Andree de Lundo*** ;" here a piece has been broken off; part of the R is however ftill vifible, and there is no doubt but that the letters e and s followed it. My reafons for fill- ing