by Mr. Phipson; they were sixteen in number, placed under where the stalls had been, their mouths opening into a trench on each side, as at St. Peter's per Mountergate Church, already described in this volume.

Mr. L'Estrange also communicated an account of a brass inscription restored to the church of St. John Timberhill, Norwich, by Mr. Titlow, and of errors in Blomefield's History respecting it.

The same gentleman also sent a drawing by Mr. Spaull, of a coffin-slab at Hindringham Church to Abbot Hugo, of Langley.

MR. FITCH exhibited a large number of flint Implements from the drift, recently found at Thetford, some taken out of the soil by himself.

June 19th. MR. CARTHEW exhibited a brass shield, believed to have been taken from Ely Cathedral. Arms:-a lion rampant, impaling, chequy, on a fess, three martlets.

Date about 1400-20.

MR. L'ESTRANGE exhibited a cast of a wood-carving of the head of St. John the Baptist in the charger, from a spandril of the doorway of the screen in Trimingham Church.

August 10th. MR. FITCH exhibited a silver seal found. outside St. Augustine's Gates, Norwich, 1866, representing a female head, with the legend, +JE SVY SEL DE AMOUR LEL: circa 1350-1400.

The REV. E. GILLETT exhibited a carved wooden helmet and crest, (a plume of feathers out of a coronet, with a crescent for difference) probably part of a monument; long preserved at Lincoln Hall, Beighton, formerly belonging to William de Waynflete: circa 1400.

SIR J. P. BOILEAU, Bart., President, exhibited some tracings of wall decoration, found at Hethersett Church, on [VOL. VII.] 2 B

the wall at the east end. The chancel of the church had been taken down, but the paintings are of the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.

September 4th. MR. MANNING exhibited, by permission of the owner, a jet chessman, found at Thelton, Norfolk, in

1866, belonging to T. E. Amyot, Esq., of Diss. It is apparently of the Saxon period, and may be of Norse manufacture. It is engraved with lines and circles, and is shaped like a small flat bottle, with a conical projection rising from the top. Not many chess pieces have been preserved in this material; two in the Museum at Warrington are noticed in the Archæological Journal, ix. 304, and xiii. 180. This piece from Thelton has been exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries, and the woodcut published in their Proceedings," vol. iii. p. 385, is here reproduced by their obliging permission.

The President communicated a sketch and notice from Mr. Elwes, of Congham, respecting a stone hammer, and a bowl or mortar, recently found there.

MR. FITCH reported that a portion of a fine screen had been discovered at St. John de Sepulchre Church, Norwich. The figures are in outline, and represent St. James, St. Blaise, St. Ursula, St. George, St. Etheldreda, St. Gregory: circa 1400-1450.

November 29th. MR. MANNING exhibited, by permission. of Mrs. Holmes, of Gawdy Hall, Harleston, an ivory chessman, believed to have been purchased by the late Mr. Sancroft Holmes. Of this piece it is remarked in the "Proceedings" of the Society of Antiquaries, (who have

is uncertain whether this specimen is Italian or Oriental." MR. MANNING presented a copy of Mr. Alfred Newton's pamphlet on "The Zoology of Ancient Europe," containing some account of discoveries of remains of " Lake Dwellings," at Wretham Mere, Norfolk.

1867, January 10th. MR. FITCH exhibited a fine silver armlet or fibula, found near Chelmsford, Essex.

MR. MANNING exhibited a gold ring with a sapphire, dug out of a pit at Fressingfield, Suffolk: circa 1400.

MR. T. JECKYLL sent a sketch of a fireplace in a farmhouse at Fundenhall, with a frieze of plaster: circa 1600.

The REV. J. GUNN reported the discovery of mural paintings at Brunstead Church, representing the "deadly sins."

April 3rd. MR. FITCH exhibited a "costrel," or portable bottle, sixteenth century, found in Chapel Field, Norwich.

MR. L'ESTRANGE sent an extract from the will of Nicholas de Stow, P.C. of Snettisham, 1376, leaving five marks to the paving of the chancel of that church: confirming the statements in Original Papers, vol. i. p. 373.

The REV. J. BULWER reported that Mr. Bolding, in making excavations at Weybourne Priory, had discovered what he believed to be the plan of an older church.

MR. FITCH exhibited a gold coin of James I., found at

Hellesdon. Obr.: a rose crowned: IA. D'G. MAG. BR. F'. ET. H'. REX. Rev. a thistle crowned: TUEATUR. UNITA. DEUS.

June 21st. MR. FITCH reported that seven gold angels, of the reigns of Henry IV., Henry VI., and Richard II., were found in making a road at Attleborough hall.

Sept. 24th. The REV. J. LEE-WARNER exhibited a rubbing of a brass legend at Wellingham, "Hic jacet e .. Thomas Pecke, eremita." circa 1450.

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MR. FITCH exhibited the brass matrix of the seal of the Deanery of Flegg, circa 1400; and a bronze wolf, said to have been found at Caister by Yarmouth; apparently the head of a staff.

November 5th. MR. MINNS exhibited a brass seal found at Castleacre: device, a priest with hands raised over a chalice on an altar: s'. ROB'TI. CAPIL'. DE. WRIDLINGTON."

CAPT. BULWER exhibited a brass locket, in the form of a heart, enclosing a cross, found in East Dereham churchyard, August, 1867.

MR. FITCH exhibited a silver ornament of square form, size 1 inch by inch, with the figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the letters "APS. as," apparently a mould for taking impressions; also a leaden matrix found at Booton. "+s'. WIL'MI. DE. SLOTH."

1868, January 2nd. MR. C. J. WINTER exhibited a drawing of a portion of a mural painting of a consecration cross at St. Andrew's Church, Norwich.

February 6th. MR. FITCH exhibited two flint Implements of the paleolithic type, found at Santon Downham, Suffolk.

June 2nd. MR. FITCH exhibited a leaden bulla of Pope

* Mr. Fitch read a Paper on the discovery of these Implements, at the Annual Meeting on the 19th.

Clement III., found in St. Giles' churchyard, Norwich, May, 1868.

MR. MANNING exhibited a polished flint celt found at Needham, near Harleston, Norfolk. Also some leaden objects found at Leverington, Cambridgeshire, viz.: a spindle-whirl, probably Saxon; a shield-shaped article with a lion rampant, pierced with a hole; and a roundel with the Royal arms, James I. (?); also a bronze pin of Roman date.

MR. L'ESTRANGE exhibited two deeds, with seals, of Gregory Draper, 1435, 1456, with merchants' marks differing from those of the same person noticed in the Society's Original Papers, vol. iii. p. 215. It was suggested that he had probably made use of another person's seal.

August 4th. The REV. PRECENTOR SYMONDS exhibited a small bronze celt, the cutting edge having a groove, pur-~ chased at Tours, France.

September 2nd. MR. FITCH exhibited a fine bronze seal, found August, 1868, in Norwich. It is the seal of the Hundred of Lothingland, Suffolk, and is similar to that of the Hundred of Wangford, figured in the Archæological Journal, vol. xi. p. 31. and in Suckling's Suffolk. It is inscribed, "S. regis in comit.' Suff: Hundr de ludingland."

October 7th. A communication was received from MR. HARROD respecting the extracts from the Lynn Subsidy Roll, printed in the Society's Papers, vol. i., stating that he had been able to confirm the date by comparison with a Roll at Ramsey Abbey, as being of the 19th year of Edward I.

MR. MANNING exhibited an iron javelin head with four blades, found in the bed of the river at the " Goldspur" bridge, Hoxne, Suffolk; probably Danish.

MR. F. WORSHIP exhibited a leaden "signaculum," said to have been found at Blackfriars Bridge, London, with the date 1021 in Arabic numerals. It is doubtless a forgery.