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By Mr. ^^ ilson. — Several sculptures in ivory, two iliptychs with figures of saints, and a figure of tlio Good Shepherd, placed on the summit of a kind of rocky pyramid with various devices around the base. It measures nearly 9 inches in height. Several of these singular figures have been brought to England within recent years. A more full description of one exhibited in the museum during the Norwich meeting and brought, as it is believed, from Portugal, may be found in the Museum r »I^ catalogue. (Norwich volume, p. 45.) Also a chalice of gilt metal, with a silver bowl, and four small nielli around the knop ; on the underside of the base is the date 1517 (?) in Arabic numerals. (See woodcut.) By Mr. Charles Tucker. — Representation of the inscription upon the tenor bell in the church of Bedale, Yorkshire. The characters are majuscules, of the form sometimes termed " Lombardic," the " Gothique arrondi " of French archaeologists, and they are probably of the XlVth century. The inscription forms the following Leonine distich'* : — ^ lou : EGO : CUM : fiam ; cuucE : custos : lavdo : mariam : DIGNA : DEI : LAUDE : MATER : DIGNISSIMA : GAUDE : The first word seems to be the intcijoction 10, the greek Iw, which was u?cd as an exclamation of rejoicing, of applause, or of invocation. Some- times, but rarely, to occurs as a monosyllabic ; it is so used by Martial. This couplet may be thus rendered : — lo ! when 1 am made a guardian (or protector) by the cross, [i.e. am consecrated) I praise Mary. thou ! worthy of praise divine, most worthy mother, rejoice. By Mr. Burtt. — An original document of the early part of the Xllth century, being a grant to the monastery of St. Martin des Champs, at Paris, by Peter de Blois, Bishop of Beauvais, and bearing his seal, a remarkable example of the mode of sealing en placard. Tiiis grant, unknown ap[)arently to French writers, will be more fully noticed hereafter. It has been purchased for the British Museum. By Mr. Franks. — An Italian Majolica dish, upon wiiich is represented Piialaris being burnt in the brazen bull. In one corner are introduced the arms of Guidobaldo II., Duke of Trbino. On the reverse is written Pcrillo, ])robably erroneously for Piialaris. The date of this fine example is about 1550. By Mr. C. Desborougii Bedi-okd. — A jar of red ware with numerous micaceous particles in its substance, it had originally two handles. — Also, some decorative pavement tiles, of the XlVth century'. Tiie.se relics wero found at a considerable depth in the course of recent excavations at Jlaberdashers' Hall, London. By Mr. Le Keux. — A green-glazed jar with four little handles or rings round the neck, probably intended for tying down the cover, which as it was said was found closing the mouth of the vessel. it is stated tiiat it had been recently found at I'laling, in preparing the foundations for a new eliurch, and that it was filled with coins, which came into the hands of four labourers engaged in tlu; work. They had aliscondcd, and Mr. Le Keux had endeavoured in vain to ascertain the age of the coins thus discovere<l. By Mr. C. IIalsteu, of Chichester, — ImpresHJuu fnuu u gold betrothal

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