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PROCEEDINGS AT MRETINOrS OF carved on stone, .and of the times of tlie same Master. One of these is in the porter's lodge, the other on the nianth'-piece of tlie fire-place in an upper chamher, now called " the Nun's room," part of the old Masters' lodging, supposed to have been the work of Robert Shirbornc. It is carved on a scroll, as follows — "R S Dilcxi Sapieciam anno do' 1503.*" The date is the same in both instances, and the unusual form of the 5 (similar to the letter h) renders it deserving of special notice. This form occurs, however, in the " chirtrcs vulgaires de France," given by De Vaines." It is found in the date of the sepulchral brass of Robert Mayo, in the church of St. Mary, Coslany, Norwich, given in Mr. Wright's curious memoir " on the antiquity of dates expressed in Arabic Numerals," in the Journal of the Archaeological Association.' It is identical with the character quinas, the fifth of the numerical symbols used by Gerbert, in the system of calculation introduced about the close of the tenth century. h ft ?t. Cross, painted Glass. I>iite carved on Stone. Mr. Gunner subsequently communicated a notice of the remains of the ancient Episcopal manor-house at Bishop's Walthara, Hants, consisting of an extensive range of buildings, formerly the bishop's stables, and in later times used as a malt-house. At the end of this building is a cottage, in the wall of which is to be seen inserted a sculptured stone, bearing an escutcheon of the arms of Thomas Langton, Bishop of Winchester (a cross charged with three roses), and beneath it the date 1493, as here represented, being the year in which he was translated to that see from Salisbury. The stone is decayed and the Arabic numerals somewhat worn, especially the second, of which one extremity is now broken away; the figure was, however, evidently the Arabic 4. The curious piece of plate jiresented by the same Bishop Langton to Pembroke College, Cambridge (as stated by Godwin), and still there preserved, usually termed the Anathema cup," bears' an inscription, in which both Roman and Arabic numerals are found united. It is as follows :— C. langton lulnton* cp;S aulc pcnbrocl)tc olim <Sod' tJftJit l)ac ta^sifa foop'ta titJt aulc 1 • 4 • • 7 qui altcaafantt anatljnna £itt. Ixbti. bnc. The anathema has not availed for the preservation of the cover of this fassca. A representation of the cup is given in Mr. Smith's interesting

• ' Specimens of College Plate," (Transactions of the Cambridge Antiquarian

Society, vol. i.) Mr. OiJviiY presented to the Institute a plaster cast of another date, 1404, in Aral)ic numerals, which is seen over the west door of the church ■' This motto, Mr. riuniicr staled, ocnirs in Compton, ami tlic capital was probably re- onr other position, on the stone capital of a moved from some other place, brick colimin, snpporting a kind of oriel win- ^ Dictionnaire de Di])lomatiqiie, vol. i., dow in the upper gallery of the cloisters, on I'l. v. the outside. This is the work of Bishop Vol. ii., p. ]()0. See also p. ()4.