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lis PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF Baifent, of Winchester, drawings executed by him, being facsimiles of some mural paintings discovered in East Wellow Cliurcb, near Romsey, Hants. They consisted of two royal heads, (life size) of one of which, and of parts of the decorative diapering, representations are here given. Their date appears to be about the time of Henry III. These decorations occur over the east window, of three lights, (early English or early Decorated) and on the jambs. Mr. Gunner exhibited also a remarkable Document preserved in the Archives of Winchester College, the Customs of the City of Winchester, to which is appended the common seal. The parchment had suffered by being folded into very small compass, but under the good care of Mr. Edward Smirke, it had been recently rendered smooth, and mounted, so as to be secure from further injury.- By Mr. OcTAVius Morgak. — Four bifurcate iron bolt-heads, found behind the wainscot at Machen Place, an ancient residence of the Morgan family in Monmouthshire, built probably in the reign of Henry YII. Of two of them a representation is here given. (Orig. size.) This form does not appear to be of common occurrence : it was used in field sports, as is shown by the highly curious painting by Lucas Cranach, exhibited by Mr. Farrer at a meeting of the Institute, in June, 1850. (Jouiiial, vol. vii., p. 303.) It represented the grand stag-hunt and battue given by the Elector of Saxony, in 1544, to Charles V. and other great personages, who appear shooting with the cross-bow, the bolts having heads of this peculiar form. This curious painting, Mr. Bernhard Smith suggested, strikingly recalls to mind certain expressions in Shakspeare. In "As You Like it," the Duke laments that the " poor dappled fools " should have their haunches gored with " forked heads." So also Kent says to Lear, " though the fork invade the region of my heart." It may, however, be assumed that they were not used - See Mr. Smirke's Memoir on this Custumal, ante, p. 89.