By Professor Buckman, of Cirencester.—Several relics found near that town, comprising two bronze weights for the statera; one, a female bust, perhaps of Ceres, in the collection of T. C. Brown, Esq.; the other, described as the head of a satyr. It is remarkable that each weighs precisely 460 gr., so that it may be supposed they were adapted to small stateræ of a recognised kind. A complete specimen with its beam and appliances, lately found at Cirencester, is figured in the "Illustrations" of Corinium, produced by Mr. Buckman and Mr. Newmarch. (See p. 411 of this volume.)
Also, a leaden matrix, the seal of Engeram de Cardwilia, exhibited by the obliging permission of Sir Thomas Tancred, Bart., on whose property it was found. It measures, in diameter, about 214 in.; the form is circular, the device a thistle, chardon,—carduellus, a linnet, being a canting allusion to the name. Legend —✠ sigill' engeram de cardvvilia. On the reverse the thistle is likewise engraved without inscription. Date, fourteenth century. A curious specimen of the "Pilgrims' Pouches," badges of lead, distributed to pilgrims as tokens of their having visited certain shrines of special repute, and worn like the escallop-shell attached to the cap or sleeve. Philippe de Comines relates the veneration of Louis XI. for relics of this nature; a remarkable example, bearing the royal arms, and supposed to have been used by that king, is preserved at the National Library at Paris. Mr. John Gough Nichols, in his interesting researches on "Pilgrimages," speaks of the "pilgrims' ampulles" (ampoulles) which he supposes to have been tokens from Rheims; and Mr. C. Roach Smith, in a memoir in his "Collectanea Autiqua," (vol. ii. p. 47), has pointed out the allusion to them occurring in Piers Ploughman's Vision, where the attire of the pilgrim is described, including the "hundred of ampulles" attached to his hat. Mr. Roach Smith's remarks on pilgrims' signs in general are highly curious. He observes that of the class designated as ampulles, to which that here represented belongs, "none hitherto have been published," having apparently overlooked the curious woodcuts illustrating Gardner's History of Dunwich, which appeared in 1754.
Pilgrims' token, of lead, found at Cirencester. Size of orig.
Those comprise four of these leaden signa, found near that town, and called by some, as that author remarks, "Pilgrims' pouches, by others Lacrymatories,—thought to hold liquid
