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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. by Ml-. Allen in Carew church. The second is in the church of Boulston, and represents a male figure, rudely sculptured, clad in a long gown, the feet resting on a dog. Date, fourteenth century ? Over the head is a cinq- foiled canopy. Dimensions of the slab, length, 2 ft, 3 in. ; width, at head, 1 ft., at feet 10 in. Mr. R. P. Pullan has communicated, through Mr. Walford, an impression of a small sepulchral brass, of the fifteenth century, existing in the chancel of the church at West Tanfield, Yorkshire. It represents an ecclesiastic, for- merly rector of the parish, clad in the canonical habit. The figure measures 19 inches in length. He is repi-esented as vested in a cope, with its usual decorative bordures of embroidery, or orfrays : over his cassock is worn a surplice with very long sleeves, the furred tippet appears with its long pendants in front, and a portion of its hood surrounding the throat, like a falling collar. The tonsure is concealed by a small skull-cap. Beneath the figure is a plate inscribed with the following singular lines : — Bum Dixit IRcctor. Ire ^TanfelU IsTot'c gliomas Sutton. 1£n jatct Ijit graUitatus ct Ellc magist' ^rtib?. ac cciain ©anonicus l)tc q? ffitcstcl)cstcr " Sic TSTorton' tjiator ffuntJitc bota p'cor. Gough has given this inscription, in his additions to Camden, but strangely blundered in the transcript. The annexed representation of the seal of the chantry founded in Wim- bourne Minster by Thomas de Brembre, who succeeded as dean of that collegiate church Aug. 5, 1350, is taken from an impression of the original matrix which is in possession of the Institute, having been presented, with other curious relics, by the Rev. Robert Wickham of Twyford, Hants. This beauti- ful seal has been already engraved in Hutch- ins's History of Dorsetshire y, but so unsatis- factorily that another representation of it ap- peared desirable. Thomas de Brembre suc- ceeded to the prebend of Milton Manor, in the cathedral church of Lincoln, in 1 344, and in 1345 was made prebendary of Sutton cum Bucks, the best endowed stall in the cathe- dral. He is said to have died in 1361, and was buried at Wimbourne, but this date is probably incorrect. His foun- dation at Wimbourne Avas endowed for a warden and four chaplains^: in 1534 it was returned as of the annual value of 22/. 8s. id., which sum was then divided between three chaplains only. The armorial bearings on the ° So Chester was sometimes called. See Ormerod, vol. i. p. 107.

• Camd. Brit., iii. 335.

y Ed. 1796. vol. ii. p. 537. ^ Browne Willis : Survey of Lincoln, pp. 222. 246. » Pat. 39 Edward IIL, part ii. m. 10 and 19.