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[Communicated by the Rev. R. H. Cluttebbuck, Rector of Enliam.] 

 ^^HE " Loan Museum " arranged in the Court Room of the 

 Town Hall contained much that was interesting, gathered 

 almost exclusively from the immediate neighhourhood. 



The Mayor of Andover kindly allowed the chain of office and the 

 maces to be exhibited. The chain is modern, but the two maces — ■ 

 though they have apparently undergone various alterations — are oT 

 the time of Charles II. They are of silver, of a well-known type ; 

 the heads bowl-shaped and surrounded with a coronal. But the 

 chief interest of the Museum centred in some specimens of the 

 magnificent series of charters and documents possessed by the Cor- 

 poration. Among those shown were two charters of King John, 

 and one of Queen Elizabeth, with a fine impression of the great seal. 

 In the same case was the " Maneloquium Book,^^ which, although 

 in the earlier folios it is a transcript made 35 Henry VIII., has 

 accounts of the "morow speche^^ (usually held on the Sunday 

 mornings), from 3 Edward Til. 



Drawings and prints of the pavements found in the neighbourhood, 

 the chief of which were at Abbots Ann and Thruxton, were exhibited 

 by Mrs. Dixon, of Linkenholt, and the same lady also showed two 

 mediaeval seals, one round, lin. in diameter having a well-shaped 

 fleur-de-lys, surrounded by the legend + s. gavfridi de LAMOrE; 

 the other, round, lin. in diameter, bears the device of a squirrel on 

 a branch, beneath which reposes an animal of truculent aspect but 

 doubtful description. The legend is * wake me no man. This 

 seal was found in the wall o£ a tower which once stood in the 

 churchyard attached to Salisbury Cathedral. Mrs. Dixon also 

 exhibited a repeater watch in a most exquisite case of filigree work, 

 temp. James I., and medals of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. 



A very interesting cabinet of medals was exhibited by F. R. 

 Loscombe, Esq., of Clatford, comprising medallion of Charles II., 

 1662; Russian medallion of Catherine II., 1782; silver medallion 

 of Admiral Van Tromp, Clement XII., Charles II., on the occasion 

 of his embarking at Scheveling, 1660; Pius VII., the scarce 



