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THE AKCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 115 group of children ; on the reverse, the head of a man in the gesture of supplication, with an inscril)ed scroll in front of it, as follows, — Suscipc (pieso tanje q'muis indigne benign . . . Et semper s'm me rege virgo tuum. There is also part of a second scroll, inscribed, — . . . non valeo . . This plate was originally gilt. Date, about 1500, the obverse not much later. The other brass bears the following inscription : " Kichard Potter late of VVestra Esquier buried here, had by his iij wiues Elizabeth, Ane, and Alice, XX. children, whereof he Icffte aUue at his deathe the iiijth of maye, 1563. iij. sonnes and x daughters. " I slepe in dustc, untill the morning. " Come Lorde .Jesus, come quicklye." On the reverse, is a portion of a Flemish brass, of the earlier part of the sixteenth century, apparently the lower end of the shaft of a canopy, with part of the basement, on which is suspended a scutcheon of arms, the heraldic coloui's expressed by hard coloured mastic. By Mr. Webb. — An ivory triptych, of singular beauty and interest, sculptured with various subjects from the Legend of the ^'irgin, from the Sansomme Cabinet at Paris. Also, an elegant nuptial casket, or forci^r, the exterior painted with lions, eighteen in number, aU in varied attitudes, on a gold ground : it is banded and clamped wath gilt brass, very ornamentally fashioned with six-petaled flowers, and fleurs-de-lys. The reverse of the lid exhibitis a conjugal device, two arms within a central compartment, the hands united : around this the initial " G." surmounted by a crown, several times repeated ; the rest of the field, which is richly gilt and burnished, is powdered with quatrefoils impressed. The device and initials are pounced, in like manner as the decorations on the monumental effigies of Richard II. and his Queen, in Westminster Abbey. The date of this curious casket appears to be the latter pai't of the four- teenth century : it is probably of German workmanshij), and was brought to this country from Aix-la-Chapelle. It is a remarkable example of the opus poumtum, poinqo)im', an elaborate mode of enrichment in vogne during the fourteenth and filteenth centuries.' By Mr. Frederic Ouvry. — A curious watch, supposed to have belonged to James I. or, possibly, to have been a present from that sovereign. It is in shape like an egg flattened. It has an outer case of plain silver. The inner case is beautifully engraved, on one side representing Christ healing a cripple, with the motto used by King James — " Beati pacifici." The royal arms underneath. On the other side, the good Samaritan, with the inscription, " S. Liicas, c. 10." Inside the lid, is a well executed engraving of James I. with his style and titles. Round the rim, are the Rose, the Harp, and the Thistle, all crowned, with the initials " J. R." The face has a ' See Mr. Joliii Gough Nicliol's Remarks on the Effigies of Richard II. and his Queen, Archaeologia, vol. xxix., p. .55.