Akmsikong — Some Matrices of Irish Seals. 463 



IJ inches. The device represents the Cathedral of Clonmacnois, with steps 

 leading up to it. (Plate L, fig. 7.) Inscription — 



i^ SimLLYM • MAEECI • LINCH • DECAN • DE • CLONMACNOSIE. 

 The inscription is worn, but there appear to be stops between the words. 

 The letters CLON seem to have been recut. This matrix was discovered 

 about 1830 in the old burial-ground of Tassagh, which lies four miles south of 

 Armagh. 



Matrix of the seal of James Verschoyle, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 

 1794-1810.' A flat brass matrix, 2f by 1-^ inches. The device is rather 

 worn ; it represents a shield of arms, an effigy of St. Patrick wearing a mitre 

 and holding a staff (arms of the Deanery), impaling the arms of Verschoyle, 

 a chevron between three boars' heads. (Plate L, fig. 9.) Inscription — 



JAC • VEESCHOYLE • LLD • DEC • EC • CA • S • PAT • 

 DUB • mS • MAI • 3 • 1794. 



This matrix is in the collection of the Eoyal Society of Antiquaries of 

 Ireland, which is at present deposited on loan in the National Museum. 



There are three late brass matrices of Deans of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 

 preserved in the Art Collections of the National Museum, Dublin, which I 

 am able to include tlirough the courtesy of the keeper, Mr. J. J. Buckley. 



The first is the matrix of the seal of John William Keatinge, 1810-17. 

 The matrix is oval, and measures 2-j^ by 2 inches ; device, arms of the 

 Deanery impaling the arms of Keatinge, silver a sal tire gules between four 

 nettle-leaves, surmounted by the crest of Keatinge, a boar passing through a 

 bush of nettles. Inscription — 



* • lOHANNES • GULIELMUS • KEATINGE • DD • DEC • EC • CA • 

 S • PAT • DUB • INS • JUN • 2 ■ 1810 • 



The second is the matrix of the seal of the Hon. Eichard Ponsonby, 1817-28. 

 The matrix is oval and measures 2f by 1^- inches ; device, the arms of the 

 Deanery impaling the arms of Ponsonby, gules a chevron between four combs 

 silver, surmounted by the Ponsonby crest, in a ducal coronet three arrows 

 one in pale and two in saltire, points downward, encircled with a snake. 

 This matrix was engraved by W. S, Mossop. Inscription — 



SIG • HON • EICAEDI • PONSONBY • A ■ M • DEC • COL • ET • ECCL • 

 CATH • ST' • PAT • DUB • INS • lULII • 8 • 1818 



The last is the matrix of the seal of Eobert Daly, 1842-43. The matrix 



Cotton, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 106 ; Journal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. vi, p. 82. 



