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fouiul in situ, in unblocking a small circular-headed, doublc-splaycd window in the chancel of Franiinghani Earl Church, Norfolk. It is pierced with eyelet holes, in dillerent directions, round the edge, doubtless for the purpose of affixing some kind of lacing. Fragments of similar frames were found in the other double-splayed windows, but very much decayed. ^Ir. Manning thought it possible that this might have served for fixing a substitute for glass in early times, and that the material might have been canvas, which is mentioned by the late Mr. Hudson Turner as having been used at Westminster Abbey about 1270.' It had also been supposed that these holes were merely for cords to be passed through to keep the birds out, the rain being sufficiently excluded by the double splay. Con- trivances of this kind appear to have been termed fcncstrciWs, fcncstralia. llorman in his Vuh/aria says that " glasen wyndow is to let in the lyght and kope out the winde. Paper or lyn clothe straked acrosse with losyngys niak fenestrals in^tede of glasen wyndowes." Possibly the " losyngys " in this case imply a not-work of cords stretched across to preserve the paper or linen from damage. By Mr. Edwaud Hoark. — Representations of a singular silver crucifix, orifiually gilt, having the image of the Saviour on both sides ; the cross is curiously formed of open work in a lozcngy pattern, and a spiral twist all round the edges. Date, XVIth century. It was probably intended to be attached to a string of paternosters, and it was found in digging a deep grave, in 1844, at St. Cronan's Abbey, Roscrea, co. Tipperary. This reli(|ue is now in Mr. Iloare's Collection. Mr. Blaauw presented a cast from the glazed surface of a block of terra- cotta, part of the external decoration of the ancient residence of the Pelhams at Laughton Place, near Lewes. This moated mansion was erected by Sir William Pclham in 1534, and it was for two centuries the seat of the family. The buckle which was their badge, appears in several places amongst the ornaments, which, as also window cases and other dressings of moulded brick, arc of very skilful workmanship. The block from which the cast was taken measures 8 inches in thickness, aiul it disjilays the buckle with the initials of the builder of the house — W. P. and upon the buckle is this inscription — LAN de ghack 1534 kvt cest MAYso' I'AITE. A repicsentation of this badge is given by Mr. Lower in his Memoir on the Badges of the families of Pelham and De la Warr, Sussex Arclueol. Coll., vdl. iii., p. 228 ; ami in his " Curiosities of Heraldry," p. IGl. A model of one of the windows, ornamented with arabesques, was exhibited by Mr. Blaauw in the Museum furmod during the meeting of the Institute at Chichester. By Mr. Nightingale. — Two rerujues of baked clay found in digging graves in the churchyard of St. Nicholas', Wilton. One of them is a per- forated disc, (lameter about 4.1 inches, diameter of perforation 1 J inclies. It rescmbleH one represented in " Artis' Durobriva'," plate 21), fig. G, found with Roman remains and dcHcribcd as a weight, jiossihly from its being marked with three imjtressed cavities at ei|ual distances, a p<'culiarity occurring in other examples. A massive ring of baked clay, closely similar to that found at Wilton, was dug up in the; churchyard at liur.st I'lerpoint, '■> ]']],(■ IIoUh, r,(), F)!), Henry III., citod occiirH hIho in I2!i.'l, " jiro numlK) nd fcnoH- in till- IniT'irliii'tioii to boiiii.Hlii- Anliili!!'- tnill.i.s ml hciicciiriuni lUgino a|)ii(l VViHt- lunr in lJi;^liincl, p. xxx. A ]pii^m(iit nioniihl'. iij<l."