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194< PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF at the mouth iu a constant blast, blowing the fire so strongly that it is very audible, and makes a sensible impression in that part of the fire where the blast lights, so I found by experience. May 26, 1680. After the Lord of Essington or his deputy or bailiS" has driven the goose round the fire at least 3 times, whilst the image blows it, he carries it into the kitchen of Hilton hall, and delivers it to the cook, who having dressed it, the Lord of Essington, or his bailiff, by way of further service, brings it to the table of the Lord paramount of Hilton and Essington, and receives a dish of meat from the said Lord of Hilton's table for his own mess. Which service was performed, about 50 years since (1630), by James Wilkinson, the bayliff of Sir Gilbert Wakering. — the Lady Townshend being lady of the manor of Hilton, — Thos. a Stokes <fc John a Stokes, brothers, both living, having been present. ' * " From 1635 (being the year of the death of Lady Townshend), I find by the court rolls at Hilton that this service was commuted for 8c?. annually ; and this 8d. was regularly paid till 1704, when the whole of the land became the property of H. Vernon, Esq., of Hilton. The little image is now in possession of the lord of the manors of Hilton and Essington. "A bronze seolipile, almost precisely similar, found near Basingstoke about 1790, is now in the museum of the Society of Antiquaries, A represen- tation is given of it in the ' Archaeologia,' vol. xiii., pi. 27. A metal figure, almost precisely similar in fashion, was formerly preserved in a fortress of the Counts of Schwartzenberg, called Sondershausen, and is cited by Henninius, in his Notes on the Epistles of ToUius, as representing Bus- terichus. The resemblance is striking, the right hand is raised to the head, the right knee on the ground, the left hand resting on the thigh. This image had been kept at the ancient castle of Rottembourg.^ A more accurate representation is given by Wagener ('Handbuch der Alterthiimer,' fig. 1138, text, p. 624). He describes it as the deity 'Pustrich,' and as found at Kelbra ; it is actually deposited in the Cabinet of Antiquities at Sondershausen in Upper Saxony." Whitaker, Mr. Vernon remarked, had considered that Jack of Hilton might represent the god Poust, the Priapus of the ancient Germans. M. PuLSKi stated, that there was a similar idol known amongst the Scla- vonic tribes. The word " piist " signified puffing, or making a blowing noise with the mouth, a circumstance deserving consideration in connexion with the functions of Jack of Hilton.^ Mr. Nesbitt gave an account of a magnificent Sepulchral Brass, hitherto undescribed, existing in the cathedral of Cracow. It is the memorial of Frederic, son of Casimir, King of Poland, and Bishop of Cracow, 1488 — 1503. An admirable rubbing of this grand example of early engraving was exhibited. Antiquities anil USiatki of Art ert)t6itclr. By M. PuLSKi. — A selection of drawings representing antique bronzes, of the classical period, preserved in the museum of his relative, M. Fejer- vkry, in Hungary, which had already supplied so many interesting subjects of various periods, produced at previous meetings of the Institute. ^ This account is cited in Blount's * Compare Paiisten, busten, svfflure, Jocular Tenures, p. 443. iniarc huccas, paust, turgidus. buecis, ' See also Montf. Antiq. Expl. t. ii. pust,/o//w. Wachter. p. 410, pt. 184.