saint, who is portrayed also on the chapter seal with the pallium and rationale; the seals of Erkenbald, Arclibishop of Mayence, 1011, and Adalbert I., 1124; and Baldwin, Archbishop ot Treves, 1307.
By Mr. Wyndham.—A collection of genealogical materials, pedigrees and memorials, chiefly illustrative of the history of foreign families of note in mediæval history. Amongst these collections, a drawing of a tomb, formerly existing at Paris, in the church of St. Antoine des Champs, claims especial notice. The existence of such a memorial appears to have been unknown to Sandford, and the description of it has been preserved in one of Menestrier's rare treatises, entitled, "L'Usage des Armoiries," Paris, 1673. p. 166. It represented Elianor, second daughter of King John, married first to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and after his death to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. She quitted England after his death at the battle of Evesham, and died in a convent at Montargis. On this tomb she appeared kneeling, and holding a heart between her hands, her heart having been deposited in the church of St. Antoine. Several armorial escutcheons surrounded the figure, which are represented by Menestrier.
By Mr. Nesbitt.—Rubbings of six engraved brasses in various churches in Germany.—The earliest of these is in the Cathedral of Paderborn, and represents Bernard the fifth bishop of that see. He was of the house of Lippe, was chosen bishop in 1320, and died in 1340.
The figure is not engraved on a plate, but cut out and let into a stone, as is the case in England. It is 6 feet long, and represents the bishop in eucharistic vestments, standing on a pedestal; a crozier is held in the left hand, while the right is raised in benediction. The chasuble is covered with embroidery of lions, eagles, and five-leaved roses.
The drawing and engraving resemble the English more than the Flemish works of the same period.
Two escutcheons are placed in a slanting position near the head; the sinister bears the arms of Lippe (az. a five-leaved rose gu.), the dexter, Paderborn (gu. a cross or.), with Lippe on a small inescutcheon.
A fillet of brass surrounds the figure, and bears an inscription, the capitals of which are Lombardic, the remainder in a simple form of Gothic letter. Parts of the inscription have been lost, and others misplaced, but in Schaten's Ann. Pader. (vol. ii., p. 294) it is given as follows, with the exception of the two first lines, which are there omitted,—
Post dupla centena Christi bis bina trigena lustra[1] die,
Januarii terdena de luce vani.
Mundi translatus de stella floreque natus
Bernardus quintus foris hic qui rexit et intus
Ut Cato prudenter Machabœi more potenter
Ecclesiam pavit in pace suos quia stravit
Hostes hic Struxit nova diruta cæpta (capta ?) reduxit
Omnia piscinas sylvas vireta (vineta ?) ferinas
Omneque quod movit communiit utile fovit.
Hic lapis ossa tegit animæ quæ tartara fregit
Ut salvus huic detur clerus plebs corde precetur.
- ↑ The only sense which this singular way of dating will bear would seem to be 320; to this sum, if 1000 be added, we have 1320, the date of the bishop's accession to the see, or translation from the world. Lustrum, it is obvious, must be taken, not in its classical, but in its medieval acceptation.
