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such an age as to have been placed under the foundation stone of 
Old Layerthorpe Bridge, though it may have been found at the 
time of its demolition. It has the appearance of an application of 
the Hebrew character, for some magical purpose, as was common 
in the Middle Ages. The neighbourhood of Layerthorpe, it will 
be remembered, bears the name of Jewbury. The British Museum 
contains several such plates, supposed to belong, at the earliest, to 
the beginning of the 17th century. The other object, presented 
by Mr. Hargrove, appears to be a dollar of the Elector of Saxony, 
John George, Duke of Juliers, Oleves, and Berg, Grand Marshal 
of the Holy Homan Empire. He reigned from 1565, the date on 
this piece, to 1611, was the ally of Gustavus Adolphus, and fought 
with him against Wallenstein and Tilly. In reality it is not a coin, 
but a hollow box, the upper part being removable, and it is sup¬ 
posed to have served for the unsuspected conveyance of confidential 
commimications. 
June 5. — The following paper, by the Bev. John Keneick, was 
read. Among the objects just presented, the impression of Arch¬ 
bishop Waldby’s seal deserves notice, as Drake has assigned it to 
Archbishop Holgate. The inscription reads, S. Hobti. Eboeacen. 
Aechiepi. Anglie. Peimatis. Et Dni. de Hextildesham, one of 
about a dozen ways in which Hexham has been spelt. In the 
list of Archbishops there are only two Roberts—Waldby, who 
held the see 1396-1397, and Holgate, 1545-1553. Mr. Raine has 
corrected Drake’s error in assigning the seal to the latter. The 
foundation deed of Holgate’s school is in the possession of the 
Corporation of York, but the seal is so damaged that it cannot be 
made out, and none remains among the documents of the Dean and 
Chapter. 
Both the coins presented were found at Colton, near the 
line of the Roman road, and may have been dropped by some 
traveller on his way from Eburacum to Cambodunum. The second 
Iter of Antoninus, starting from Middleby in Dumfriesshire, comes 
down through Carlisle, Brough, Catterick, and Aldborougk to 
York, and then proceeds by Calcaria and Cambodunum to Mancu- 
nium, and so to Deva, Chester. That Calcaria is Tadcaster is not 
disputed, nor that Mancunium is Manchester; but various have been 
the opinions of antiquaries as to Cambodunum. Camden, who 
visited the West Riding in 1599, saw in the house of one of the 
Savile family at Bradley, near Cooper’s Bridge, an altar with an 
