l!)-2 PROCEEDIN'GS OF THE AKCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.

ill the cu>to(ly of the Gate Porter. — Copies in gutta percha of several seals appeiiJed to docmnents relating to the Channel Islands, in the posses- sion of M. Metivier, of Guernsey. They comprise — s'. uallivie. insvle. DE. GERSEUEYE, {sic) used in I21.J and 1329 ; — s' ballivie. insvlauvm pro REGE anglie, in 1286 ; — the seals of Sir William de Chayne. 1153, and of Edmond de Chaeney, Gardein des Isles, 1365 ; — of Masse de la Court, Bailitf of Guernsey, 1315 ; of John de Pratellis, 1200 ; and of Sir Thomas de Pratellis, 1276 ; — of Sir Otho de Gransson, 1316; — of Richard de St. Martin, Bailiff of Jersey, 1317 ; — of Hugh de Turbelvile {.sic) ; — and of Philip de Albignei, 1218. By Mr. Way. — Co])ies in gutta percha from seals in the treasuries at Queen's and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, taken by Mr. Ready, to whom access has recently been permitted by the authorities of several colleges (Pembroke, Gonville and Caius, and Queen's), and an extensive collection of fine examples thus obtained.' Those now produced com- prised a seal of John de Balliol, not described in Laing's Catalogue of Scotti-sh Seals ; a fine seal of Sir Peter de Courtenay, 14th Richard II., 1391, bearing an escutcheon of the arms of that family suspended to a tree ; the hearing differenced by a label of three points, each charged with three annulets ; and a beautiful seal of John Avenell, of a Cambridge- shire family, 26th Edward 111. The bearing is a fesse between six annulets, the crest being a demi-dragon, with wings expanded. Amongst several remarkable seals of the De Veres obtained at Cambridge by Mr. Ready, that of Maud, daughter of Sir Ralph de Ufford, and wife of ThtJinas de Vere, Earl of Oxford, deserves especial notice. It is of cir- cular form, and displays an escutcheon of the arms of Vorc imitaling Ufford, borne by an eagle with its wings displayed. — ^js'igiUum : maultJc: fact" : (omitt^^C : ovoiltc : she survived her husband, who died in 1370, and died in prison in 1404. ANNUAL LONDON MEETING, May 26, 1854. The Annual Meeting announced for this day was postponed to the first week in .lune, in consequence of the unavoidable absence of the senior auditor. The accompanying balance-sheet, as audited immediately ou his return to London, was then submitted and appiovod. ItKI'OllT OF THK AUL)1T(JUS. For the Yfiir iudin<j Dcrcmbcr .'il, lft5."5. We, the luiib r.-i;;in il, liuving e.xanniicd the accounts of the Archaeolo- gical Institute I'or the year 1853, do hereby certify that the same present a true !<tat(!tnent of tht; receipts and payments for that year, and from them we have prepared the rnlldwlng ulistracl. ' ImprcHHionH from any of tlnsf Kinls 2, .St. ISotolpli'Hliiiic, C'iiinliriil>,'<', nt vi-ry iiiiiy Ijc |irocure(l from Mr. Kfaily, niodcriito coHt.