Though I am aware that a leaden Plate, found in 1786 at Bruges, in the place of sepulture of Gunilda, sister to the last of our Saxon Kings, has already been under the consideration of yourself and of Mr. Petrie, I am nevertheless induced, having lately had the advantage of inspecting this interesting relic of the eleventh century, to offer to the Society, through your obliging medium, a Fac-simile of the Inscription thereon, taken from the Plate itself; together with the result of my enquiries respecting the circumstances which attended the discovery; and some particulars concerning another British Princess, of the same name and age, whose remains are asserted to have been deposited, at an antecedent period, near the identical spot which those of the daughter of Earl Godwin appear to have occupied.

I send for your inspection, and that of the Society of Antiquaries, some extracts from the Household and Privy-purse accounts of the Lestranges of Hunstanton, during the reigns of Henry the Eighth and his children. They appear to me of considerable interest, as detailing the expenditure of the better sort of gentry at that period, and as throwing much light upon the method of life pursued by them.

I Have the honour of presenting the accompanying articles to your Society, and which I presume may be interesting. The whole have been collected in the extensive district of Peten, the most northern portion of Central America, in which I have lately resided some months as Governor. The description of this district will form a portion of a Work on Central America, which I have lately prepared for publication.

My friend Mr. Ambrose Poynter having entrusted to my care a statue of St. George, which may, I think, in many points be considered extremely curious, I beg to forward it, with his permission, for the inspection of the Society of Antiquaries.

Mr. Poynter writes to me, that ‘the accompanying figure of St. George, is cast from the original, carved in wood and emblazoned, and forming part of an altar-piece now in the museum at Dijon. This altar-piece is the work of Jacques de Baertz, carver of images (tailleur d'images) to Philippe le Hardi, Duke of Burgundy, who presented this work, and another of the same sort, to the Chartreuse of Dijon in 1391. There are several figures of saints in these compositions; but this of St. George is undoubtedly the most valuable, as giving an exact representation of the knightly costume at the end of the fourteenth century.’

As some labourers were lately digging for the purpose of laying the foundation of a cottage, in a meadow a quarter of a mile from Blandford-bridge, in the parish of Blandford St. Mary, in Dorsetshire, on the estate of Sir John Wyldbore Smith, Bart, of the Down House in the same parish, they discovered six skeletons lying side by side, the heads toward the south-east, about two feet from the surface; a single skeleton, very perfect, was found at a little distance, and also a considerable quantity of detached human bones, the whole intermixed with pieces of decayed wood and black mould. Some of the persons employed being known to me, I desired them to examine the soil very carefully, and I have in consequence obtained the articles which accompany this letter, viz. Roman Coins of Trajan, Maximian, Licinius, and Constantine, and a Greek Coin, a bronze figure of our Saviour, and a glass vessel, two inches in length, evidently formed in a mould and impressed with two grotesque heads. The foot of this vessel (which is narrower towards the bottom) is broken off; but not recently, as the vessel appears to have filled with dirt. It may possibly have originally contained a liquid, as the mouth is hermetically sealed by another piece of glass, which is also broken near the aperture, so that its form cannot be known.

The accompanying Sketch (PI. LXIII.) I made when at Ravenna a few years ago; it represents a building in that City interesting as a reputed portion of the residence of a celebrated personage, and as an example of the style of architecture prevalent at a period very remote and obscure in the history of that art; I have therefore thought that it would not be considered unfit to be exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries.

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