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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE, 337 The occurrence of a "palimpsest" slab is here considered by Mr. West- wood as of great rarity. An example, however, has been kindly coramuni- cated, with several drawings, illustrative of the architectural peculiarities, capitals, and ancient sculpture, at Pocklington church, Yorkshire, by Mr. Joseph Smith. An incised slab exists there, with a cross flory, gradated, the date being at least a century prior to that of an inscription which has been cut on the verge. This memorial, not easily to be decyphered, has been thus read. ITnc jacct Un'a margarcta csnngtoaltJ quonba pc'rissa I)uiu3loci cuius tlim crit xxii Uic Scpicbcr anno Urii JitlCCTcccif. This memorial appears to have been removed from the neighbouring nunnery of Wilberfoss, of which house, as we are informed by a communication from Mr. Hunter, for which we are indebted to the Rev. J. F. Ellis, vicar of Pockhngton, Margaret Esyngwold became prioress, about 1479, and she was succeeded by Elizabetli Lord, confirmed in office, Oct. 18, 1512, precisely corres- ponding with the date on the tomb. The word which has been printed Dim is very obscure, it has also been read olim. It must, however, be some word expressing the demise, or the anniversary celebration, supposing that crit is correct, and to be taken as the future tense. The date is in- scribed in a singular manner, with one " Longobardic" C, one majuscule old Englisli, followed by three minuscules of the same character. Mr. Charles Wyatt Orford has supplied fac-similes of two sculptured crosses of unusually small size, and of early Norman, or even more ancient, date. They are at present in the garden of a cottager at High-Lane, (or Hoo-lane, in old maps,) about five miles from Stockport, in Cheshire, on the Buxton road. They were ploughed up in a field near the church of Disle)% and having been carefully cleaned, were removed to High-Lane, for safety, by the late Richard Orford, Esq. They are composed of the common red sand-stone of the district, and appear to have been very carefully carved, as in some places the arris is perfect, and worked to an unusual degree of delicacy. The same character of ornament appears in both: they were apparently grave-crosses, as the lower extremity was left rough. Several Norman remains, well deserving of attention, exist in the neighbourhood. The want of an " Athense Cantabrigienses"' has long been a cause of complaint, we are happy to learn that this deficiency in English biography has been taken into due consideration by the Ecclesiastical History Society. The use of MSS. and private sources of information is solicited, and will be gratefully received by the Rev. J, J. Smith, Fellow of Caius College, one of the Local Secretaries of the Institute at Cambridsre. The Monthly Meetings of the Institute will take place at 25, Great George Street, on the following Fridays, January 5, February 2, March 2, April 13, May 4, June 1. The Annual London Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 10; and the Anniversary Diinier will take place on the same day. The Annual Local Meeting has been fixed for Salisbury towards the close of July. President, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P. Patron, the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. ^ Burton, Mon. Ebor., p. 418.