470 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



The bronze matrix of the seal of the Cistercian monastery De Benedictione 

 Dei at Athlone, Co. Roscommon, found at Athlone.' The matrix is of bronze 

 and is circular, with a solid funnel-shaped handle with a loop at the top. It 

 measures 1-^^ inches in diameter, and the handle is 2\ inches in length. 

 The device represents the Virgin seated, with the Child on her right knee, 

 under a canopy, and a burning pillar on either side. (Plate LI, fig. 6.) 

 Inscription — 



# 8 + ocbvacn + ca + Bncoona + di. 



The last of this series is a circular bronze matrix measuring 2\ inches in 

 diameter, and having a pierced handle at the back. The device represents the 

 Crucifixion ; but it is so greatly abraided that I cannot make out the details. 

 The inscription is so worn that I cannot decipher it. It was probably the 

 seal of some religious community. 



Matrix of the Seal of the Exempt Jurisdiction of Newey and 



MOUENE.- 



This matrix, though of very modern date, is interesting ; it is silver and 

 oval in shape. It measures 2^ by l-^-^ inches, and is quite ilat and an 

 inch thick. It is preserved in a small wooden box, which is labelled as 

 made from the wood of the famous Newry yew-tree. It was presented to the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy by Mrs. Bagot, the widow of the Very Eev. Daniel 

 Bagot, Dean of Dromore, last official principal, Vicar-General and Com- 

 missary-General of the exempt jurisdiction. The device represents a figure 

 seated in a chair of state with a yew-tree on either side. (Plate LI, fig. 11.) 

 The figure has on his head an Earl's coronet, but he is wearing a flowing 

 alb— with very full sleeves, which fit tightly round the wrists like a Bishop's — 

 neck-bands and a scarf. He holds in his right hand a book. The Earl's coronet 

 refers to the Earl of Kilmorey, and the clerical costume to the ecclesiastical 

 nature of the office. Inscription — 



* SIGELL : CVEI.^ : IVEISDICT ; EXEMPT : DE : VIEIDI ! LIGNO : 

 ALs : NEWEY. 



Within the field of the design is the word KILMOEEY. 



I extract the following particulars about this exempt jurisdiction from 

 the Eight Hon. J. T. Ball's account in the Eeport of the Commissioners on 

 the Irish Church' : — 



' Proc. Koyallrish Academy, vol. viii, p. 219. 



= See Ulster Journal of Archaeology, new series, vol. iv, 1898, p. 108. 



'"Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Revenues and Condition of the Established 

 Church (Ireland), 1868." Appendix, No. 16, p. 113. 



