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About the period of Richard II. the pouch began to be fre¬ 
quently worn by the side : this was called a gipciere, and it soon 
became a part of the costume of every class of society, the pouches 
of the higher ranks being of velvet and silk, embroidered in gold 
and silver. These pouches were attached to a metal beam, on the 
shield of which was usually inscribed the sacred monogram. 
236 and 237. Two winged Mercuries, probably of mediaeval work, 
the first is said to have been found at Old Sarum, and might 
be Roman. 
238. Bulla of Pope Urban V., 1362—70. This was found in a 
barrow on the Downs near Burcombe. Presented by Mr. 
Nightingale . 
238* Bulla of Pope Urban VI., 1378—89, presented by the Right 
Rev . the Lord Bishop of Salisbury . 
239. Bulla of Pope Martin V., 1417—31. Brodie Coll. 
240. A money weight, on which is the emblem of St. Michael ; on 
the reverse, an open hand and the letters B F. Brodie Coll. 
241. An object in bronze, to which are attached two escutcheons, 
formerly enamelled. (See plate No. 1.) It consists of a 
small copper ball, with four slender projecting pieces of the 
same material attached to the side of it round a hole, and 
originally diverging like the feathers of a shuttlecock, thotigh 
now partially bent inwards ; to the ends of two of these are 
appended, by a loose hinge-joint, two lozenge escutcheons of 
arms. On the other two the escutcheons have disappeared. 
The ball is hollow, and opposite the hole is a small portion of 
a tube, showing signs of a fracture, as if torn from its 
attachment. 
It is difficult to say what has been the use of this object, or to 
what class of ornament it is to be referred. It does not seem to 
have been a personal ornament; it might have been a portion of 
some kind of decorative horse furniture. The date of it is about 
the early part of the fifteenth century. An object of a similar kiud 
is preserved in the British Museum, of which an engraving is 
appended (see plate No. 2) for comparison. 
A detailed account of this ornament has been given in the 
“ Archaeologia,” by Mr. W. S. Walford. He states that one of the 
escutcheons bears the arms of Montacute (plate 1a), and the other 
those of Grandison (plate 1 b), and that this relic, now so rude and 
unattractive, had once probably been an ornament of some kind 
belonging to a descendant from a marriage of a Montacute with an 
heiress of a Grandison. Such a marriage did take place in the 
fourteenth century between William Montacute, the first Earl of 
Salisbury, and a daughter of William, Lord Grandison. It is highly 
probable that a larger escutcheon than the others once occupied 
the centre in the object exhibited ; if so, that was undoubtedly the 
principal coat. 
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