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hexagonal, with hollow chamfered mouldings at the 

 junction with knop and foot ; knop of six-lobed type, with 

 angel-marks on the points ; the foot is hexafoil, and the 

 vertical edge of the base has a border of leaf and flower 

 design.* 



At Malew is a brass Crucifix of the twelfth century, 

 and a silver Paten of 1525. As regards the latter, the 

 Bernicle in the centre instead of an Agnus Dei, or Hand 

 in Benediction, establishes it as pre-Reformation, about 70 

 others being known to be in existence. 



Some encaustic tiles of fourteenth and fifteenth cen- 

 turies have been found at Rushen Abbey. We figured 

 above some pieces described in " The Reliquary," January, 

 1885, by the late LI. Jewitt, Editor (see fig. 44). 



Some fragments of stained glass from Peel Cathedral, 

 now in possession of Sir James Gell, have been described 

 in Manx Soc, Yol. XXIX., p. 21. They are chiefly 

 interesting as showing the earliest representation of the 

 three legs.t 



A curious wooden Mace in black and gold, now in 

 Castle Eushen, from the collection of the late Mr. 

 Wallace, of Distington, was described by him as having 

 been borne in procession before the Manks Bishops. The 

 remains of a carved oak Rood Screen from the Xunnery 

 Chapel may be seen in the Museum at Castle Rushen. 

 There is also at Arbory Parish Church an interesting 

 inscription by Abbot Ratcliff, carved in oak. 



A few gold and silver ornaments have been pre- 

 served ; some, as a silver necklace and bracelet, found in 

 Andreas, in 1868, and gold and silver rings and bracelets 

 found in Douglas in 1894, having been claimed as Treasure 



* Manx Soc, XV., 107-109. Yn Lioar Manninagh, II., 227. 



f Excepting perhaps a seal in the British Museum, A. P., 1300. 

 (See Oswald ; Vestigia.) 



