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THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 99 addorscd, the reins tied to an annulet in the centre above. — s' VGIIOLINO DIXES' . . . ENEIA. By Mr. R. Almack. — Two Italian matrices, purchased at Florence, one of them in form of a shield, the hearing being four fusils on a bend, — s : lACiioi'O lioxizzi DE FiEsoLE ; the other presents a coat of arms — two lions' gambs erased, in saltire — s' ciiaxtixi • angxioli ; it has also a smaller privy seal at the extremity of its handle, with the initials C A, and a cross. By Mr. A. W. Franks. — An oval leaden seal, lately found at Sleford. Lincolnshire. The legend forms three lines across the seal. — ►J^sigill' iivgon' capll'i. Date, thirteenth century. By Mr. Forrest. — The seal of the Vice-custos of the Grey Friars', Cambridge, the site of whose house is now occupied by Sidney College, where the seal was found in 1839. (See Archaeologia, vol. xxviii. p. 462.) It bears a scutcheon of the emblems of the Passion, — s' vicarii • custodis cantehriggie. — A gold ring, of French work, t. Louis XIII. : it is set with a ruby, and inscribed, — a ho n fin, a motto appropriate possibly to a New Year's gift. — A brass chandelier of remarkable design, date early in the fifteenth century, recently brought from Frankfort. In the centre is a figure of the Virgin holding the infant Saviour : the branches are ornamented with large leaves, and terminate with prikets and small nozzles, alternately, the latter intended, as some have supposed, to receive small lamps, in place of tapers. — A fine example of iron-work, probably wrought at Nuremburg, a lock for a coffer, enriched with flamboyant ornament. By Mr. P. Delamotte. — A collection of vases, drinking vessels, «tc., of porous, plain and glazed ware, the colours yellow and green, brought from Tunis, to be placed in the Great Exhibition. Several of the forms evinced considerable taste, and have manifestly been preserved from an ancient period : so that their comparison with types, with which the antiquary is familiar, is not without interest as an illustration of fictile manufactures. By Mr. J. T. Irvine. — Twenty-five leaden tokens, found in removing the tiled floor of a ruined chapel, on the north side of the chancel at Dartford, Kent. They seem to have been cast, and vary in size from that of a sixpence to a shilling ; bearing devices, as a cross, a cinq-foil, (tc. : or initials — T. B. — 1. II. — G. S., with a rose and crown on reverse, B. G. anchor on reverse, and the like. Also, a brass royalist medal, bearing the crowned head of Charles I., the rev. plain. — An Italian medallic cast, of brass : on both sides are these arms, — three bends, the central bend charged with three roses? in the field — G. M., on the reverse — 15S1. adi. 6 maggio. January 9, 1852. James Yates, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. The Rev. W. Gunner read a memoir on the history of the Cistercian Priory of Andwell, Hants, and of the family named De Portu, its founders. It was a cell to the Abbey of Tyrone, in France. Scarcely any particulars relating to this Priory had been published ; and Mr. Gunner's recent researches amongst the muniments of Winchester College had drawn forth