April 9.
Dr. Bromet exhibited impressions of three ancient seals. The first was from a silver matrix of circular form, in the possession of Mr. E. G. Wriglite, of Hereford; it is charged with an escutcheon of arms (three lions passant, gaidant) surrounded by the legend ✠ S' Balliuorvm : Ciuitatis : Herefordie. The design seems to indicate that this matrix was cut in the time of Edward III., or Richard II. The second was a circular seal of very elegant design, bearing on two scrolls the name Gorge Rygmayden. The matrix is preserved in the museum at York, and appears to have been cut about the time of Henry V. In the centre appears a maiden seated on a flowery bank or ridge, which is enclosed by a wattled fence (making the canting device ryg-mayden?); her left hand rests on an escutcheon of arms, (quarterly, three stags' faces, and a chevron between three mullets pierced,) and in her right she holds, upon a truncheon, a grand heaume surmounted by a unicorn's head, as a crest. The third was an oval seal, inscribed Sigillvm. Roberti. Tinley. Archidiac : Eliensis : with an escutcheon of arms, (a lion's head erased, between three crescents,) and above it this device,—issuing from clouds a dexter arm grasping an olive branch, motto,—Vt in die nouissimo. Robert Tinley, according to Willis, was collated Archdeacon of Ely in 1600, and died 1616.
Mr. Charles Winston, of the Temple, communicated the following remarks on the stained glass in the three north windows of Kingsdown church, Kent. In the course of September, 1844, the lead-work of the glass in the tracery lights of the three north windows of Kingsdown church, Kent, was renewed, and the glass protected from further injury by wire guards, at the expense of Mrs. Ann Colyer, of Farningham. The principal subject in the eastern window of the chancel is a white fish or luce, on a red ground, bordered with yellow quatrefoils; the glass itself being adapted to a trefoiled opening. That in the next window (the first in the nave) is a figure of Christ sitting enthroned, on a ground of ornamented white quarries, surrounded by a yellow border of quatrefoils, separated from each other by small cross-hatched spaces. This glass occupies a quatrefoiled opening. That in the next window consists of a figure of the Virgin Mary, crowned, standing, with a flower in her right hand, and supporting the infant Jesus on her left arm. It is surrounded with quarries and a border exactly the same as in the last example, and occupies a similar quatrefoiled opening. In the lower lights of these windows are some trifling fragments of borders and quarries, which being useful evidences of the nature of the original design, have been carefully re-leaded. The glass first mentioned is in tolerable preservation. The figures are perfect, excepting the face of Christ, which is lost, and the figure of the infant Jesus, of which the nimbus and one arm only remain. A quarry may be defective in some places, but no attempt has been made to supply these deficiencies with new painted glass; it was deemed expedient to preserve what remained, without restor-
