in the custody of the Gate Porter.—Copies in gutta percha of several seals appended to documents relating to the Channel Islands, in the possession of M. Metivier, of Guernsey. They comprise—S'. BALLIVIE. INSVLE. DE. GERNEREYE, (sic) used in 1215 and 1329; —S' BALLIVIE. INSVLARVM PRO REGE ANGLIE, in 1286;—the seals of Sir William de Chayne. 1153, and of Edmond de Chaeney, Gardein des Isles, 1365;—of Masse de la Court, Bailiff of Guernsey, 1315; of John de Pratellis, 1200; and of Sir Thomas de Pratellis, 1276;—of Sir Otho de Gransson, 1316;—of Richard de St. Martin, Bailiff of Jersey, 1317;—of Hugh de Turbelvile (sic);—and of Philip de Albignei, 1218.
By Mr. Way.—Copies in gutta percha from seals in the treasuries at Queen's and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, taken by Mr. Ready, to whom access has recently been permitted by the authorities of several colleges (Pembroke, Gonville and Caius, and Queen's), and an extensive collection of fine examples thus obtained.[1] Those now produced comprised a seal of John de Balliol, not described in Laing's Catalogue of Scottish Seals; a fine seal of Sir Peter de Courtenay, 14th Richard II., 1391, bearing an escutcheon of the arms of that family suspended to a tree; the hearing differenced by a label of three points, each charged with three annulets; and a beautiful seal of John Avenell, of a Cambridgeshire family, 26th Edward III. The bearing is a fesse between six annulets, the crest being a demi-dragon, with wings expanded. Amongst several remarkable seals of the De Veres obtained at Cambridge by Mr. Ready, that of Maud, daughter of Sir Ralph de Ufford, and wife of Thomas de Vere, Earl of Oxford, deserves especial notice. It is of circular form, and displays an escutcheon of the arms of Vere impaling Ufford, borne by an eagle with its wings displayed.—* Sigillum : mauled : ber : comitisse : oronie : she survived her husband, who died in 1370, and died in prison in 1404.
ANNUAL LONDON MEETING.
May 26, 1854.
The Annual Meeting announced for this day was postponed to the first week in June, in consequence of the unavoidable absence of the senior auditor. The accompanying balance-sheet, as audited immediately on his return to London, was then submitted and approved.
REPORT OF THE AUDITORS.
For the Year ending December 31, 1853.
We, the undersigned, having examined the accounts of the Archaeological Institute for the year 1853, do hereby certify that the same present a true statement of the receipts and payments for that year, and from them we have prepared the following absract.
- ↑ Impressions from any of these seals may be procured from Mr. Ready, 2, St. Botolph's lane, Cambridge, at very moderate cost.
