434 in.; thickness, 134 in. Mr. Ferrey presented them to the Museum of the Institute.
By Mr. Robert Fitch, of Norwich.—A fac-simile, moulded in gutta-percha, from a singular object formed of hard limestone, evidently a mould which had served for casting ornaments in metal in high relief, to be attached to some decorations of a sacred nature. It represents a chalice, surmounted by the Host, bearing the sacred monogram, and surrounded by rays. It was found recently at Dunston, Norfolk, in a plantation near the church, the property of Robert K. Long, Esq., about five miles from Norwich.
Mr. Hakewell exhibited rubbings from the sepulchral memorial existing in the chancel of the Church of Leigh, Surrey, probably the tomb of the founder, or a benefactor to the fabric. It is one of the monuments of the Arderne family, formerly settled at Leigh Place, and allied to the Arderne family of Warwickshire. They are noticed in Manning and Bray's County History. It was commemorative of Richard Arderne, who died A.D. 1499, and his wife, Johanna. Their sepulchral effigies of brass, have perished. Above the casements, on the face of the slab from which these figures have been removed, is a curious representation of the Trinity; two escutcheons (a fess cheeky between three crescents—Arderne, and the same, impaling a chevron between three stags). On a scroll, from the mouth of one of the figures, was inscribed—Jh'u redemptor mundi miserere nobis; and, on the other, At videntes Jhu'm semper Colletemur. The last word being repeatedly inscribed on the quarries of the chancel windows, written diagonally, and originally, as it would appear, filling the whole window, in lieu of any diapering, heraldic or other ornament.
Mr. J. A. Busfield, of Bradford, communicated the following account of early gravestones and other remains existing at Keighley, in the county of York, accompanied by drawings; and has very kindly presented to the Institute the woodcuts, which are given in illustration of his remarks:
"So general has of late become the wish to preserve a record of the early sepulchral remains still existing in our parish churches, that I am induced to offer the following particulars relative to some interesting sepulchral memorials of considerable antiquity at Keighley; but which, it seems more than probable, are now doomed to rapid destruction—the ancient church in which they had rested for more than 500 years having been pulled down, and the tombs of its original founders and benefactors discarded from the modern edifice. The antiquary and topographer of another generation will be indebted to the Archaeological Societies of the present time for preserving a record of that which had, till now, survived the wreck of time or hand of the destroyer.
"The first of the memorials I am about to describe relates to the Kighleys of Yorkshire—an ancient and chivalrous family, long since extinct in the male line, but whose co-heiress (interred under a splendid monument at Haut Hucknall, near Hardwick, in Derbyshire),[1] transferred the manor of Kighley, together with the estate, at the close of the sixteenth century, to the family of Cavendish, by marriage with Sir William Cavendish, afterwards created Baron Cavendish and Earl of Devonshire, the Earl of Burlington being the present possessor.
- ↑ Whit. Craven, p. 159.
