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sad example of desecration than the church of St. Michael in its present state.

IN THE COLLECTIONS AT LONGBRIDGE.

"Hospi- tale Sancti Michaelis in Villa Warr'.	Valet in	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Redditibus et firmis omnium terrarum et tene- mentorum predicto Hospitali pertinentibus sol- vendis ad festa Annuntiationis beate Marie Virginis et Sancti Michaelis Archangeli equa- liter prout per Rentale inde factum et reno- vatum particulariter apparet per annum.				$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	l. xii	s. xi	d. vi
	Re- prisæ viz. in	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Redditu resoluto domino Regi ut in jure nuper monasterii Sancti Sepul- chri v.s eidem domino Regi ratione dissolutionis nuper collegii beate Ma- rie vis. viijd. ville Warr' in toto per annum.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	s. xi	d. viii	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	s. xxxi.	d. viii.
			Decimis domino Regi annualiter so- lutis, per annum	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	xxs.
			O. Remanent clare per annum xl. xixs. xd.

The seyd Hospytall hathe no foundacyon but as yt ys deposed was founded by a Kyng to thentent to geve Almous wekely to the pore and also to barber them, howe be yt the seyde Master ys not resydent there but as yt ys seyde hathe dymysed same Hospytall w^t all rents and profFytts there unto belongyng to one Rycharde ffysher by lease paying therefore by yere but x^li. notw^tstandyng the same fermor dothe destrybute wekelye to the pore peaple viii^d and fyndythe iiii^or beddes to lodge the seyd pore and also gevythe to a certayne pore woman attendyng upon the seyde pore men and makyng there bedds wekely viii^d. And the Inventory of there goods and ornaments to the same belongyng hereafter dothe appere."

The Rev. Charles Boutell, of Sandridge, Herts, Local Secretary, exhibited the brass matrix of a personal seal of the fifteenth century, recently found on Bernard's Heath, the field of the first battle of St. Alban's, A.D. 1455, and now in the possession of the Architectural Society of St. Alban's. The device is an eagle pouncing upon a hare, with the legend ALA IE SV PRIS. Mr. Boutell also presented a rubbing of a sepulchral brass of the fifteenth century, lately discovered in clearing the basement-course on the exterior of the church of Abbot's Langley, Herts. It represents a civilian, his wife and children, in the ordinary costume of the period.

The Rev. W. H. Gunner, Local Secretary at Winchester, forwarded for the inspection of the Committee, a gold ecclesiastical ring of the fifteenth century, recently turned up by the harrow in a field at Chilcomb, near Winchester.

Mr. Gunner also informed the Committee that in digging the foundations of the new church of St. Thomas, in Winchester, which are of considerable extent, and of great depth, a number of deep holes, apparently old wells, filled up with loose soil, were found, in which were a few coins, chiefly