topher, and adjoining to it is a diminutive grotesque figure. The two figures here represented appear to have been intended to pourtray Aquila and Priscilla, distinguished by the symbol of a shoemaker's rule[1]; usually each of them holds a sword, in allusion to their martyrdom. They are mentioned in Acts xviii. 2, as tent-makers by occupation, and the object resembling a shoemaker's measure was doubtless originally intended to represent some implement of their craft.
August 25.
Mr. J. G. Jackson, of Leamington, communicated sketches of the interesting tombs discovered behind the wainscot in St. Stephen's church, Bristol. Of one of these an account had been received from Mr. Wreford, on Aug. 28, 1844[2]. These memorials will be more fully noticed hereafter in the Archæological Journal.
Steel Scissor-case.
Mr. Hodgkinson, of East Acton, sent for exhibition a steel scissor-case, elaborately engraved, date about the end of the sixteenth century. It was dug up some years ago in forming a sewer in the neighbourhood of the Seven Dials, a spot reputed to have been used as a burial-place during the plague. The following legend is engraved on the cover: AV. TOVRNOVIS, VOVIS. IE. LORE. OV. IE. MOVRE. Sir Frederick Madden conjectures that it may be rendered thus: At the tournament may I behold Laura or I shall die.
Mr. Spencer Smith sent for exhibition twelve Roman silver coins, discovered some years since in digging the foundation of Gillows' upholstery warehouse in Oxford-street. They were ordinary types of Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Gratian, Valens, and Julian the Apostate. It was observed that few coins, or other antiquities, had been found in that part of London.
Mr. Jackson, Secretary of the Architectural Committee of the Warwickshire Archæological Society, communicated a plan and several drawings, representing the desecrated church of St. Michael, in Saltisford, the suburb of Warwick on the north side of the town. The rector of this church was anciently presented by the dean of the Collegiate church of the Virgin Mary, and in 19 Edw. I. it appears that the canons had a portion out of it, a small sum being also reserved for the lepers in the hospital there. In the
- ↑ Die Attribute der Heiligen, Hanov. 1843, v. Schumachergeräthe.
- ↑ Archæological Journal, vol. i. p. 260.
