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inlaid with ivory, 1668, and a second with a shield bearing 6 fusils, and 

 name "Anne Essington, 1732." Three Majolica plates, ivory patch box, 

 silver whist counter box, Royalist medal Charles T. Ancient seal found 

 at Bemerton. Embroidered purse, &c, &c. 

 By Me. Clench : — 



Flint implement from the gravel of Milford Hill. 

 By Mr. Wheaton : — 



Large specimen of flint implement from Milford Hill. 

 By T. 0. Stevens, Esq :— 



Charter of James II. to the city of New Sarum, with autograph of the 

 notorious Judge Jefferies. 

 By Thomas Barnard Esq : — 



Silver mounted snuff-box, made from a plank severed from Nelson's Flag 

 ship "The Yictory," by a shot during the battle of Trafalgar, October, 21, 

 1805. 



By Dr. Thtjrnam, Devizes: — 



Arrow-heads from the bed of Niagara river ; and leaf-shaped arrow-heads, 

 and javelin points from Wiltshire tumuli ; the latter being perfect marvels 

 of skill in the way of chipping. An exquisitely polished flint celt from 

 Catterley Banks. Two polished celts of green stone, mounted in sockets of 

 deer horn, one of them handled in wood ; from the lake dwellings of 

 Switzerland. Specimen of ossiferous crematious breccia, and horn cores and 

 bone of ox from a barrow near Tilshead. 



By Mr. Shaw, Andover: — 



Three rare specimens of ancient British gold coin found near Thruxton and 

 Farringdon ; and one of penannular Celtic ring money, weighing 204 grains, 

 recently found near Andover. Also several Saxon coins, and a touch-piece 

 of Charles II. given to persons touched for the King's evil. Tracts relating 

 to the Martin Marprelate controversy, and specimens of pottery found in 

 making the London and Southampton railroad. 



By Mr. Edward Kite, Devizes : — 



Petition from Daniel Drake, Keeper of Fisherton Gaol, A.D. 1649, to the 

 Court of Quarter Sessions at New Sarum, for an allowance of £60 4s. 6d. 

 spent in the maintenance of prisoners and suppression of mutinies in the gaol 

 during the Commonwealth. 



By Messrs. Bennett & Clench : — 



A large number of fine examples of early plate, amongst which the most 

 remarkable object was a silver gilt Chalice of the 13th century, with the boss 

 of the stem ornamented with foliage and the letters J. H. E. S. U. S. ; also 

 a silver gilt standing cup and cover, of large size, with a bas-relief of our 

 Lord carrying the cross, and other sacred subjects ; a pair of fine old candle- 

 sticks of German work, parcel gilt and embossed, of the 1 7th century ; several 

 drinking cups of silver and silver gilt, some richly embossed and engraved, of 

 the form prevalent in the 16th and 17th centuries; several highly ornamented 

 spoons, in silver gilt, of about the same period; and some valuable specimens of 

 richly embossed, and repousse work of the reign of George I. 



By J. Bawlence Esq., Bulbridge House: — 



Illuminated MS. of the 15th century. Black letter Bible in old binding. 



