year's gift, being inscribed—en hon an. It exhibits the patron saints of the Priory, the Virgin, St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Pancras. The same motto occurs on the fine ring found in the tomb of Bishop Stanbery, at Hereford (Archæologia, vol. xxxi. p. 249); it is found on a ring, with a figure of St. Christopher, found at Attleborough, Norfolk, now in Mr. Fitch's cabinet; on one discovered near Leicester (Gent. Mag., June, 1796); on one found in the chapel at Petworth, and formerly in the possession of the Earl of Egremont; and on the fine ring found in the Thames, sold at Strawberry Hill, with the impress of a castle.[1]
Seal of Sir John Pelham, A.D. 1469, with the cage as a crest, and badge of the buckle.
Our limits will permit only a brief mention of the account of certain primeval vestiges on the South Downs, by the Rev. E. Turner, the remarkable hill-fortresses, especially Cisbury, and the curious circular pits adjoining to it, supposed to be the remains of British habitations. The notices, by the Rev. M. Tierney, of recent discoveries in the Collegiate Chapel at Arundel, and of the interments of the Fitzalans, Earls of Arundel, are of considerable interest. Mr. Lower has supplied notes on the wills pre- served at Lewes and Chichester, illustrative of the customs and state of society in the county in past times; and the Society is indebted to the same zealous archaeologist for observations on certain curious heraldic details connected with two distinguished Sussex houses, the Pelhams and the De la Warrs; as also for some additions to his valuable Memoir (given in a previous volume) on the important local manufacture, the Iron Works of Sussex. Mr. Figg has taken up a neglected and interesting subject of inquiry—manorial customs and services; and he has added to the illustrations of the volume several examples of decorative pavement tiles, of local interest. Amongst the objects of curiosity, produced for the gratification of the Society, the silver alarm-watch of Charles I., usually placed at his bedside, here claims especial notice, particularly since, through the kindness of the possessor, W. Townley Mitford, Esq., the members of the Institute have been permitted to examine this precious relic, exhibited at one of the meetings in London. We are much indebted to the Sussex Society for enabling us to give the accompanying representations, which enrich their recently published volume. The ill-fated monarch presented this watch, as he was going to the place of execution, to Thomas Herbert, his attached attendant. It is repeatedly mentioned in the memoirs of the two last years of the reign of Charles I. by Sir Thomas Herbert, from which
- ↑ Calal. fifteenth day, No. 11.
