To the Society. Royal Archæological Institute, for Proceedings, No.

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Royal Historical and Archæological Association of Ireland, for Journal, vol. ii, No. 10, Fourth Series. 8vo. Dublin, 1872.

The Northern Society of Antiquaries, for Parts 1, 2, 3, of Aarböger, for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie, 8vo, Copenhagen, 1871; and Part 1, 8vo, Copenhagen, 1872. Also for Mémoires de la Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord. New Series. 8vo. Copenhagen, 1870 and 1871.

Smithsonian Society for Annual Report. 8vo. Washington, 1871.

To the Author, John Evans, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., for Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain. 8vo. London, 1872.

Seyed Ahmed Bahadoor, C.S.L., for Essay on Dr. Hunter's "Our Indian Mussulmans.--Are they bound in Conscience to Rebel against the Queen ?" (Printed for private circulation.) 8vo. London, 1872.

To the Autotype Company, for Ancient Sculptures in the Roof of Norwich Cathedral, by the Rev. Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., Imperial 4to.

Dean of Norwich. Part II.

The Chairman adverted, in feeling terms, to the serious illness, and great services to the Association, of Mr. J. W. Baily, who had, although in a most critical state, with his usual kindness and consideration, sent for exhibition a valuable assemblage of fictilia, etc., exhumed during last September in Queen Victoria Street.

In point of age, the earliest of these remains are portions, as Mr. Cuming remarked, of two crania of the bos longifrons, with the horn-cores in a very perfect condition. Several other skulls of this extinct British ox were met with in this locality, and are preserved in Mr. Baily's collection.

Most noticeable among the fictilia are three fine vessels of Samian ware, the largest being a patera hederata, the ivy-leaf being on the rim. The other two examples belong to the sinum class, one being embellished with figures of animals of unusual size, the other with scrolls and volutes of much elegance.

Equally fiue in their way are three Durobrivian pocula, the body of the largest being adorned with a hunting subject, the deer being portrayed with much spirit. The two other tall cups are less ornate in character, one having a somewhat melon-shaped body; the body of the other being compressed at the sides, to permit a firmer grip of the poculum while being lifted to the lips.

The Upchurch ware finds a good representative in an olla decorated

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with dots of barbotine arranged in square groups, a highly metalloid lustre pervading the whole surface of the urn. An olla of the fourth century presents a strong contrast in contour, paste, and colour, to the foregoing fictilia, and is undoubtedly of British origin, its ample mouth. showing that at this period the calcined bones of the defunct were deposited in the urn in rather large fragments.

Of all the vessels produced, the most novel in type is one which may be described as an ampulla-shaped jar, convex at bottom, and with the sides contracting as they rise towards the broad mouth, just beneath which projects a short tubular spout. This rare vessel was exhumed at no great distance from one of similar form that was found near the Bucklersbury Pavement in 1869. The latter specimen (as well as one with three loop-handles, mentioned in our Journal, xxvii, p. 160) is unglazed, whereas the present example would seem to have been partially covered with a plombiferous glazing. In the Cuming collection is a broad-mouthed olla with rounding base, the interior of which has been glazed; and this was certainly discovered, with Roman remains, on the site of the New Post Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, in 1824. Examples of the kind of pottery here described require careful consideration before their date can be determined with confidence; but there is reason to believe that they were wrought in the fourth century.

The latest object sent by Mr. Baily is a censer or fuming-pot of the sixteenth century, of similar character to those described in this Journal (xv, p. 280). The paste of this vessel is of a yellowish hue, and its surface is partly covered with a bright green glaze.

Dr. Kendrick sent for exhibition a curious piece of embossed appliqué needlework on white satin, 14 ins. in height by 18 ins. in width. In the centre is an oval border, 6 ins. high by 83 ins. wide, enclosing the story of Hero and Leander. In the distance is a city with a lofty square tower, on the top of which stands Hero, torch in hand, whilst beneath Leander swims through the Hellespont. This distant scene is by night; but, in advance, the sun darts down its illumining rays, and in the foreground lies the corpse of Leander. Cupid sits near him in sorrow; and weeping friends gaze on the defunct lover from the opposite bank, on the dexter side of the picture. Above the oval is a building of Oriental character, with a large tree on either side. On the dexter side of the oval stands a gentleman, on the sinister a lady, both being in the costume of the time of Charles II; and these effigies, in the opinion of some, are intended as representations of the monarch and his queen, Katherine of Braganza. Beneath the oval picture are a waterfall and basin, flanked by a stag and lion, both couchant. In each corner of the work is a large flower; and dispersed about are birds of divers sorts, a dog, rabbit, snails, butterflies, with fruit and flowers. Beneath the dog is the letter M, and beneath the rabbit G,

which may be the initials of the Christian and surname of the ingenious worker of this elaborate production.

Mr. H. Syer Cuming said that the rich and curious piece of needle. work exhibited by Dr. Kendrick once formed the front panel of a coffer of the time of Charles II, during whose reign this species of decoration. was held in high esteem. Embossed appliqué needlework is believed to have originated in France, towards the close of the sixteenth century, and to have been practised in England as early as the reign of James I. In our Journal (i, p. 54) is a notice of a suit of bed-hangings of black velvet, decorated with prominent appliqué work, and with the date 1616 embroidered on the headcloth. In vol. xvi, p. 317, is an account of a piece of French embroidery, of the first half of the seventeenth century, representing a bust of the Virgin Mary, in which the accompanying cherubs' heads and other accessories are wrought in relief. And in the same volume (p. 336) are descriptions of two pieces of appliqué embroidery, of the seventeenth century, on white satin, representing King Solomon seated in his tent, and welcoming the Queen of Sheba.

Our late member, Mr. Christopher Lynch, possessed several curious examples of needlework appliqué. One piece represented three male figures, in the dress of the early part of the seventeenth century, standing close together, as if forming a portion of a procession. Among other decorations on another specimen appeared two effigies much resembling those on Dr. Kendrick's panel, which were considered to be those of Charles II and Katherine of Braganza. It is these two pieces which are mentioned in our Journal, vi, p. 85.

Mr. Cuming closed his remarks by the exhibition of an elegant little cassolet of wood, the top, front, back, and ends being covered with white linen decorated with highly raised embossed appliqué representing flowers, leaves, etc., of yellow, green, blue, pink, and crimson silk, outlined and intertwined with gold twist, and edged with gilt spangles. These emblemata, as the Romans would have termed them, are not wrought in stitchery, but moulded, and then faced with pieces of silk, in the manner practised by the Japanese from time immemorial. This cassolet is reported to be of French origin, of the time of Louis XIII.

The Rev. George Heron, M.A., incumbent of Carrington, Cheshire, transmitted for exhibition a collar worn by King Charles I. It is made of a piece of fine white linen or cambric, 30 ins. long by 8 broad, sloped out to fit the neck, and shaped to the shoulders by twelve narrow plaits; and secured to a band, 15 ins. long by 1 inch wide, fastened at the throat with two little globose linen buttons. On the inside of this band is a crown, and the words, "A gift from King Charles yo 2: 1660," done with pen and ink. The pedigree of this interesting relic is well established. It was given by the son of the martyred monarch

to a member of the Byrom family, and at length came into the possession of one of their descendants, a Miss Atherton, who presented it to its present owner.

Mr. H. Syer Cuming said that in our Journal (xx, p. 332) is described an embroidered cambric scarf, or neckcloth, worn by King Charles I on the morning of January 30, 1648, and that no doubt could be felt respecting the truth of the statement that the collar now before the meeting once belonged to the same ill-fated sovereign. It was clearly of his time; and innumerable portraits exist of the King, in which he is represented with such a falling band spreading over the steel gorget of his armour. The Byroms were just the race to preserve a relic of this kind with religious care. Strongly attached to the royal cause, they remained faithful to the house of Stuart through all the adversities which overwhelmed it; and Dr. John Byrom of Manchester was counted one of the chief Jacobite bards of the last century.

Mr. Cuming went on to say that he would take the present opportunity to exhibit a portion of a garment which had been worn by King Charles I, and long preserved in the Lathom family. The garment, of which he produced a part, was a doublet, or waistcoat, made of rather thin silk; the field of which is black, decorated with a pattern consisting of perpendicular lines of acute ovals of a pink colour, bordered on alternate sides by an undulating yellow beading. The condition of the silk indicates that the vest had been much worn. The relics here described are interesting additions to the remains of the royal wardrobe already noticed in our Journal.

Mr. E. Roberts exhibited five curious steel knives, a pin, and the clasp of a purse, all (with one exception, the date of which was uncertain) of the sixteenth century, found on the banks of the Thames.

Mr. Gordon M. Hills, Hon. Treasurer, exhibited on behalf of the Rev. J. F. Hodgson, of Staindrop, a photograph of a curious tombstone discovered six or seven years since under the floor of the tower of Monkwearmouth Church. It is a splendid specimen of a cross in relief, and with the following very perfect inscription incised in the field, HIC IN SEPULCRO REQVIESCIT CORPORE HEREBERICHT PRB. The Treasurer drew attention to the fact remarked by Mr. Hodgson, that the name HEREBERICHT is not the name to which originally the monument was inscribed. Where this name is cut, the stone has been sunk away, so as to obliterate an earlier name, before the name of Herebricht, the priest, was cut. Mr. Hills agreed with Mr. Hodgson, that the stone, as originally cut, was nearly coeval with Benedict Biscop and the Venerable Bede. Mr. Hodgson has offered to the Association a full and completely illustrated account of the antiquities of the church of Monkwearmouth, which Mr. Hills believed will show that the building is coeval with Bede, and the most valuable example of early architecture in Britain.

Mr. Hills also laid on the table, for examination by the members, two volumes which had been placed in his hands, for exhibition, by R. Stainbank, Esq., of the celebrated Whitechapel Foundry, containing legends and inscriptions on ancient bells. They were taken from rubbings selected by Mr. Stainbank, and were copied in facsimile by Mr. William Kimber. They commence from A.D. 1296, and are most carefully and beautifully executed.

Mr. J. W. Grover read a paper, "On a Roman Villa at Teston, Kent," accompanied by a plan, both of which will appear in a future number of the Journal.

Mr. Roberts said that the apsidal apartment to which Mr. Grover had called attention might have been designed to receive a couch for persons to sit upon while in the sudatorium.

Mr. George R. Wright proposed that a letter should be written to the family of Mr. J. W. Baily, expressive of the deep sense of obligation which the Association felt under to that gentleman, the sincere sorrow with which they had heard of his alarming illness, and their heartfelt wishes for his ultimate recovery. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr. J. W. Grover called attention to the following extract from a report of the proceedings of the Court of Common Council, on Thursday, 23rd Nov., in reference to "Cæsar's Camp" at Wimbledon :

"CESAR'S CAMP.'-Mr. John T. Bedford moved that it be referred to a committee to consider the expediency of preserving' Cæsar's Camp' as an open space for public recreation and enjoyment; and with directions to the committee to place themselves in communication with the proper authorities, to ascertain upon what terms and conditions this may be accomplished, reporting to the Court from time to time. Mr. Bedford dwelt on the great historical interest which attached to the Camp, and on its being situated, moreover, in a position commanding charming views of a wide sweep of country all round. He was sorry to say the Camp was in some danger of being appropriated to building purposes, unless some well-directed effort was made by a body like the Corporation to preserve it. The motion was seconded by Mr. R. N. Philipps, F.S.A., and after some slight opposition was agreed to."

The members present unanimously expressed the pleasure they felt that one of the members of the Council of this Association, Mr. R. N. Philipps, had been instrumental in bringing about so desirable a conclusion; and earnestly hoped that, whatever might be ultimately determined upon with regard to Wimbledon Common, "Cæsar's Camp" might be permitted to remain intact.