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put out of sight that the owners at last do not really.know what 

 they have got : — 



" Yetus Grcecos servabat cista libellos, 

 Et divina opiei rodebant canniiia mures." 1 



"He possest, 

 A few Greek books, shrined in an ancient chest : 

 Where barbarous mice through many an inlet crept 

 And fed on heavenly numbers, while he slept !" 

 Our forefathers were much more inventive and tasteful than 

 ourselves in the article of Seals. And though it may be now in 

 some respect too late to attempt the revival of elegance in these 

 instruments, seeing that stamped envelopes and the application of 

 the tongue have well nigh driven wax and sigil wholly out of the 

 field, still it is never too late to know to what extent any branch of 

 the fine arts has been carried in England. It is exactly when 

 things are passing out of present use, that they fall within the 

 province of Archaeology, and on that ground our Publication is 

 consistent with itself in requesting a favourable attention to this 

 subject. J. E. J. 



Cnntrihutinnfi to tjj* fthtsnmt atii lihrartj. 



The Committee feel great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt 

 of the following articles, which have lately been presented to the 

 Societj' : — 



By J. Yonge Akerman, Esq., F.S.A. — Description of the Anglo- 

 Saxon Antiquities found at Harnham, near Salisbury. Original 

 document — A Fine between Robert de Hakeney, Rector of Alding- 

 ton, and Reginald Atte Hulle, concerning tenements at Ramsbury, 

 c. 1312. Catalogue of the Kerrich Collection of Roman Coins. 



By John Britton, Esq. — Short Memoirs of Brayley, Bartlett, 

 and Wilson. 



By Dr. Thurnam, F.S.A. , Wilts Co. Asylum. — Description of a 

 Chambered Tumulus near Uley, co. Gloucester, from the " Archaeo- 

 logical Journal." 



1 "Jut. Sat," iii. v. 20fi. 



