Page:Archaeological Journal, Volume 6.djvu/592

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414 PKOCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF commemorate any person of that name. Part of it had been read by Mr. Franks, — et Maude safemme. Mr. Wynne noticed the occurrence of the shears on the tomb-stone of an infant, at Bebington, Cheshire, which may confirm the notion, that the symbol was not mdicative of the trade of the deceased. By Mr. Franks. — A rubbing from a small quadrangular brass plate, in the south wall of the chancel of Llanbeblig Church, near Caernarvon. It is The Notary's Penner and Ink-horn. From a Sepulchral Brass in North Wales. the monument of Eichard Foxwist, who died A. D. 1500, and exhibits in one corner a figure of the deceased in a shroud, his head resting on a cushion, and holding in his hands a shield with the fve wounds. In the centre is represented a penner and inkhorn, the usual emblems of a notary, and at the other corner is a shield, bearing, — arg. a chevron between 3 crosses crosslet ... a muUet for difterence. Under them are the following lines : In quo pre multis scribendi glla fulsit Ilicus flbx Wist hie pede tritus adest Ann us xpe tuns fuit M d luce patrici dii tenet expirans vulnera quinq' tua Corp'is atq' sui tande pars additur altra dii couiux uno clauditur in tumulo Necq' Johanna fuit ac Spicer nata iohane Paup'ib' larga iusta pudica fuit. Llanbeblig Church is the parish church to the town of Caernarvon, and stands pn the site of the ancient Segontiura. The accompanying woodcut has been kindly placed at the disposal of the Institute by Mr. Franks. The Kev. Edward Cutts presented several rubbings from sepulchral brasses, at Westerham, which had been taken up during repairs of the church, about 30 years since, and the slabs being broken, the plates are now preserved at the vicarage house. He exhibited two portions, sent by permission of the vicar, being " Palimpsests," and the earlier design, or reverse, being in both cases, of Flemish character. One of them exhibits a