several which no longer exist.[1] The drawings exhibited by Mr. Majendie represented the following monuments:—A cross-legged effigy, a knight in a long surcoat, the feet resting on a boar; date about 1300; the figure is placed on an altar-tomb with deeply recessed niches at the side. An effigy in plate armour, camail, military belt over the hips, the arms of De Vere on the jupon; date late in the XIVth century. On the sides of the altar-tomb are niches in which small figures are placed. Cole supposes this to be the tomb of Robert De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who died 1392. An altar-tomb with effigies of a knight and lady; he wears plate armour, with the arms of De Vere on the breast, an orle around his helmet; in the niches at the sides of the tomb are angels holding rectangular escutcheons, charged with the arms of De Vere; De Vere impaling Sergeaux; De Vere and Warren, quarterly; De Vere impaling Badlesmere and De Vere impaling Fitzwalter. This tomb has been assigned to Richard, tenth Earl of Oxford, K. G., who died 1417; he married the heiress of Sir Richard Sergeaux, of Cornwall. Mr. Majendie brought also for examination a curious fragment of stained glass, of a rich blue colour, found in excavations made by him at Hedingham Castle.
Mr. George Vulliamy brought before the Society some relics of the game of Paille maille, so much in vogue in the XVIIth century, especially in the reign of Charles II., as appears by numerous entries in the Diary of Pepys. These objects had been lately found in an old house in Pall Mall, a street which had received its name from the favourite amusement there practised. Some notices of the game were read, which will be given in this Journal hereafter.
Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited.
By the Hon. Richard C. Neville.—A silver ring of very peculiar form, lately found at Great Chesterford, Essex, with relics of the Roman age. The pala, or head of the ring, is composed of a small rectangular gold plate, chased in relief, and representing a lion. From one side of this plate is a piece of similar dimensions turning outwards nearly at right angles to it, bearing in chased work, partly pierced, a representation of a vase between two birds (?).
By Mr. Franks.—Two bronze blade-weapons lately found in the Thames, one of them resembling the Irish blade presented to the Institute by Mr. Kyle, and figured in this Journal, vol. x., p. 73.; length, nine inches. The other is of a type found in Wiltshire and other parts of England, of which various forms are shown in Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire, plates 14, 15, 23, 27, and 28. This example has only two rivets to attach it to the handle, but these weapons usually have three, four, or five rivets. The broad part of the blade, close to the handle, is engraved with a vandyked border and hatched diagonal lines. Length, 8 inches. A bronze blade with two rivets only but of longer dimensions, found in the Thames near Vauxhall, was exhibited by Mr. Kirkmann to the British Archæological Association, and is figured in their Journal, vol. ii., p. 60. Mr. Franks produced also a "pomander," or globular frame-work of
- ↑ Funeral Monuments, p. 614. Coles' account (written in 1746) is to be found in his MSS. in Brit. Mus., vol. x. p. 25. See also Dugdales Mon. Angl. Caley's edition, vol. iv. p. 98. Gough, Sep. Mon. vol. i. pp. 36, 53; vol. ii. p. 49. Morant vol. ii. p. 212. Daniel King made drawings of these monuments of the De Veres in 1653, which came into the possession of Walpole.
