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            + REGNI &X°S ELIZABETHA GERIT. MATTH.SVS ACHATEN

                CANTVAR. EI DONAT F1DVS DVM VIVET ACHATES,

 Signifying—Elizabeth  bears the cares of the State.   Matthew, Archbishop of

 Canterbury, her faithful Achates so long as life shall endure, presents to her this

 agate.   The capricious play upon the word Achates, an agate, and Achates, the

 name of the faithful companion of jEneas,  the notion of certain physical or

 talismanic virtues in the stone, and the general nature of this present from the

 Primate, are singularly characteristic of the Elizabethan age.—Mrs. T. Lloyd

 Barwick Baker, Hardwiek Court.

   A gold watch, studded with diamonds, some of which are set in the backs

 of little frogs  and lizards, with which the case is ornamented.  It was pre¬

 sented by Henrietta Maria to General  Rudhall, a distinguished Royalist, as a

 token of esteem for his services  to  the cause of Charles I.  A diamond  pen¬

 dant, originally attached to it, has been lost; and a watchmaker of Gloucester,

 in the  last century, being  employed to  renew  portions  of the  movement,

 engraved upon it  the  name—Abr. Rudhall, Gloucester,  being that of the

 possessor of the  watch at that time.  General  Rudhall had  estates in  the

 counties of Gloucester and Hereford, and  was buried in Ross Church.   The

 present  possessor of the watch  is  his lineal descendant.   A purse, worked

 with beads, and inscribed with the  admonition, remember  the poore, 1632,

 has been preserved with it.—Mrs. J. D. T. Kiblctt, Campden.

   A gold watch, with chatelaine and appendages, described  as having belonged

 to Queen Anne.—Another gold watch, set with pearls and  gems,  and a  pro¬

 fusion of cameos, devices,  and amorous mottos, on cornelian of two strata, red

 on  a white ground.   This costly  specimen of its period was made by

 Hoendschker, at Dresden, and is believed to have been worn by Lady Castle-

 maine.—Two cameos on sard, one a head of Jupiter  Ammon, exhibiting  four

 faces when held  in different positions; the other is a head of Nestor, armed.

 Antique intaglios, mounted as  a chain; among  them is one representing a

 shell with an animal issuing from it, a similar device  to that which occurs on

 a Roman signet ring  lately discovered at Wroxeter.—Edmund Hopkinson,

 Esq., Edgworth Manor.

   A small  watch, made by the celebrated Graham, who  also constructed

 mathematical  and  astronomical  instruments  with great skill.   The watch

 was  made for Dr. Bradley, Royal  Professor of Astronomy, and was used by

 him in his observations  on the aberration of light and  on the fixed stars.  It is

 now the property of his great great nephew, by whom it was exhibited.—The

 Rev. Samuel Lysons, Hempsted Court.

   A chatelaine of ormolu, with an etui of fine Egyptian agate,  and pendants,

 including a seal set with a  cornelian, engraved with  the arms of Cholmeley,

 of Easton, Lincolnshire, impaling those of Sibthorpe.   These ornaments were,

 doubtless,  presented  to Sarah, daughter  of Dr. Humphry  Sibthorpe,  of

 Magdalene  College, Oxford,  and  wife of  Montague Cholmeley, Esq.,  of

 Easton,  about 1770.  The chatelaine was bequeathed to the present possessor

 by his great aunt, Mrs. Sarah Cholmeley, their eldest daughter. —Henry D.

 Cholmeley, Esq.,  the Priory,  Woodchester.

  A box or inkstand, in form of an enormous bee with expanded  wings,  of

mixed metal richly gilt,  and probably of Roman work,  made during the

Pontificate of  Urban  VIII.  (Maffeo  Barberino), A.D. 1623—1644, when

Rome was profusely  ornamented  with bees, the heraldic bearing of the

Barberini.   The bee measures 5 J inches in length, 5 inches across the wings;

the back opens with a hinged lid, and the object  may have been used as an

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