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THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. ] 13 possession, found with numerous Anglo-Saxon relics at Micheldever Wood, near Winchester, of which some were secured for the Winchester Museum. Mr. Chestek contrihuted, also, sketches of a panel of the rood-screen in Loddon Church, Norfolk, representing the crucifixion of St. William by the Jews of Norwich, a.d. 1137; and of two other compartments — the Adoration of the Magi, and the Circumcision. The boy-martyr of Norwich appears affixed, not to a cross, but to the gallows, formed of a transverse beam, supported by two forked uprights, with a third, like the stem of a tree, behind the child, terminating in a mass of foliage above his head, which is surrounded by the aureola. Underneath is inscribed — Sc' Gulelm'. On each side appear three Jews, one of them piercing the child's left side, and receiving the blood in a dish. In Dr. Ilusenbeth's useful manual, the " Emblems of Saints," this painting is described, as also three other East- Anglian portraitures of the martyrdom — on the rood-screens at Worstead and at Eye, Suffolk, and on a panel formerly in St. John's, Madder Market, Norwich. Mr. Nesbitt exhibited rubbings of two interesting foreign sepulchral memorials, of which representations are given. The first is an incised slab, which lies in a chapel on the northern side of the church of the Dominican Convent, at Cracow. It measures 7 ft. 10 in. by 3 ft. 6 in. The inscrip- tion (divested of contractions) runs as follows, " Ilic jacet magnificus dominus Johannes .... lensky dapifer cracoviensis, defunctus anno domini M" CCCCLXXC" xxv mensis Augusti." The C which ends the date of the year is probably an error for an I, so that the date would read 1471.' The stone is unfortunately injured at the place where the first four letters of the name occur, and of these only the lower halves remain. It is sufficiently plain from what remains that the mutilated letters were K . . V , i, so that the name should be read Kovilensky. Mr. Nesbitt had, however, not been able to verify this conjecture by means of the very few Polish historical or heraldic works which he had the opportunity of con- sulting. From the inscription, it appears that the person commemorated held the office of Dapifer' of the Palatinate of Cracow. Of these officers there was one in each Palatinate ; the office was very much of an honorary character, its duties being only actual when the King was in the Palatinate to which each Dapifer belonged. It was one of considerable dignity,' being reckoned as fourth among those not of the senatorial rank. (Hartd- knochius de Republicji Poloniensi.) It will be observed that although the figure is in armour, no sword, dagger, belt, or spurs are represented. This may not improbably be in accordance with a rule of etiquette, prescribing the absence of offensive weapons from the persons of those in attendance on the King, in the interior of his palace. On the brass of Robert Braunche, at Lynn, the guests and attendants at the Peacock Feast (engraved by Carter) are without offensive arms, belts, or spurs, although clad in complete suits of mail and plate. ' It is however possible that the date should be read as 1500 minus 70, i. c. 14.30. - In Polish Stolnik, from Stol, a table. ' . . . A noble, whose proud wish aspired To honour, and he found what he desired, A Truchsess now, and ne.t a Stolnik. . . . Oiizdraiska, by Niemcewicz, in Bowring'a Specimens of Polish. Poets. VOL. IX. Q