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Little Cheverel. Gold ring, with opal stone, bearing the motto "ij* je • svis • 

 Hicr • en • liev ■ d* " found at Goatacre. Siege piece of Charles I. found on 

 Imber Down. Several varieties of libulse, two bronze celts (one of an unusual 

 type), and one of a pair of hawk's varvels, with inscription, from "West La- 

 vington Downs. Impression from bell metal seal of John Wykes, found at 

 Littleton. Metal spoon found in digging for the foundation of the New Corn 

 Exchange, Devizes. 



By T. Beuges Flower, Esq., Bath : — 



Two folio volumes containing a complete series of British Grasses and Ferns. 



By John Halcomb, Esq., Hung erf or d : — 



John of Gaunt's Bugle Horns, belonging to the Town of Hungerford. The 

 more ancient one, which is in a mutilated condition, bears an almost oblite- 

 rated inscription in black letter; the words "actel" or "astel," and " — gur- 

 ford" only remaining (according to Lysons) : the other is inscribed thus : — 



"IOHN ' A • GAVN * DID ' GIVE * AND * GEANT ' THE * RIALL * PISHING * TO ' HVN- 

 GERFORD ' TOWNE 1 FROM ' ELDREN * STVB ' TO * IRISH ' STIL ' EXEPTING • SOM . 

 SEVERAL ' MIL • P0VND 1 IEHOSAPHAT " LVCVS ' WAS * CVNSTABL ■ 1634." 



Charters of Edward IV. and Henry VI. to the Town of Hungerford, with 

 Great Seal attached; also the Common Seal of the Borough of Hungerford. 

 An elegant silver basket, supposed to be of an almost unique style of work- 

 manship; date 1692. 



By H. Selfe, Esq., Martin: — 



Portions of lead, quarries of stained glass, nails, key, knives, spoon, and 

 other relics, found in digging on the site of the ancient chapel of St. Martin, 

 at Martin, in the parish of Great Bedwyn. 



By Rev. G. Stallard, East Grafton : — 



A thick volume containing a series of engravings, lithographs, and original 

 drawings, chiefly of Wiltshire Churches, and their details. Specimens of En- 

 caustic Tile from the chapel of St. Nicholas, East Grafton. 



By the Mayor of Wootton Basset: — 



Remains of the Wootton Basset Cucking Stool, bearing the date of 1668. 

 This vehicle in its perfect state is figured in "Wilts Magazine," i. p. 68. 



By Mr. C. Mat, Marlborough : — 



An interesting series of objects from the collection of the late J. Stoughton 

 Money, Esq., F.S.A.; among which the following are particularly worthy of 

 notice, as relating to the county of Wilts : — Portion of leather in which a 

 skeleton, found some years since at Bradenstoke Abbey, was enveloped. [The 

 discovery of this early interment is mentioned in Bowles and Nichols's " An- 

 nals, &c. of Lacock Abbey," p. 33.] Roman and other coins found, in 1849, 

 in a held, called Boxbury, in the parish of Yatesbury. Quarry of stained 

 glass, bearing the arms of Fettiplace, from a window in the Old Parsonage 

 House at Yatesbury. Encaustic Tiles found on the site of Bradenstoke and 

 Stanleigh Abbeys, and in the churchyard at Yatesbury. Fragments of a 

 coffin formerly suspended from the roof of Heddington church, and mentioned 

 in Britton's Wiltshire volume of the Beauties of England and Wales. Por- 

 tion of Saurian Ware, Fibula, &c. from the supposed site of the Roman Sta- 

 tion Verlucio, near Wans House. Two large saucer shaped Anglo-Saxon 

 fibulje of copper gilt, amber beads, pin, &c. found with a skeleton near Mil- 

 denhall, in 1827. Arrow head of bronze from a barrow near Charlton, Don- 



