^{page 258 note *} i.e. a brocket, a young deer.

^{page 260 note *} See Proc. 2d S. v. 87.

^{page 261 note *} I cannot refrain from saying a word or two on Diekamp, whose recent untimely death has been a real loss to learning. His first considerable production was an admirable edition—critical in the best, not in the lean and meagre, sense of the word—of the Life of St. Liudger. He then devoted himself to the elucidation of early papal diplomatics, in which his accuracy and exact method forms a striking contrast to the somewhat harum-scarum work of more than one voluminous producer in that particular department. From a thorough examination of German archives, some of the results of which are embodied in the papers mentioned below, he prcceeded to headquarters in the Vatican ; whilst engaged on a new edition of the Liber Diurnus he caught fever and died, on Christmas Eve last year, at the age of 31. His last work was the commencement of a supplement to the Codex Diplomaticus of Westphalia—the home of his own people.

^{page 262 note *} See an example Brit. Mus. Coll. xxviii. 2.

page 262 note † See Muratori, Ant. iii. c. 132 (x.), c. 133 (xi.), and Brit. Mus. Coll. xxxviii. 3.

page 262 note ‡ Perhaps a comparison with contemporary coins might throw light on the subject; though I have not found help in Fioravante's Vignoli—the only book on the snbject at present accessible to me.

page 262 note § Figured in Neues Archiv, iv. plate at p. 192.

^{page 263 note *} P. Ewald, in Neues Archiv, iv. 186–7.

page 263 note † Neves Archiv, ix. 635.

page 263 note ‡ Tab. ii. 6, cited by Diekamp, Mittheilungen des Inst. iii. 613.

page 263 note § Neues Archiv, iv. 187.

page 263 note ‖ Doublet is not here, and for the moment I cannot lay hand on the authority for the statement; but I well remember to have read this-somewhere. By the way, from the foregoing it is evident that the bulla Mnratori proposed to attribute to Paschal II. really belongs to Paschal I. (sec Antiq. Ital. iii. col. 131, and fig. xiv. col. 134).

^{page 264 note *} See his plate in Mittheilnngen des Institute für ocsterreiehisclie Gesehicktsforschung (published at Innsbruck), vol. iii., between pp. 620–7 ; the relative text, p. COS seqq. A second article containing a continuation from 1254 to 1334, ibid. vol. iv. p. 528 seqq.

page 264 note † Of. Diekamp, iv. 534 : ‘False littere percipi possunt in bulla, puncta numerando’ (Martvmts Polonwi) ; and another, ‘Et circumferentia utrobique certis punctulis est expressa ut eo difficilius possit falsificari ct eo facilius falsitas valeat deprehendi.’

^{page 265 note *} If a further ‘note’ were required to distinguish II., the head of St. Peter supplies one ; besides being unusually ugly, it leans on one side somewhat.

page 265 note 265 ‘In use, at least,’ i.e., these are the extreme dates between which Diekamp has actually found examples of it.

^{page 266 note *} Iibr. de re Dipl. Suppl. Paris, 1704, p. 101.

page 266 note † Mabillon's print is from a letter to the archbishop of Narbonne. Diekamp suggests plausibly enough it was sent also to other prelates—perhaps ‘omnibus Christi fidelibus,’ like the one mentioned just below.

page 266 note † Potthast, Nos. 14694–5.

^{page 267 note *} He gives an account of two further dies, one cut sometime between March 1259 and March 1260, in use until November 1284; the other occurring, at all events, from 1st September, 1285, lasting for the next fifty years, both (he says) reproductions of No. vi.

^{page 272 note *} The year is in every case that of accession ; and, of course, is almost always the date when the seal was made.

^{page 272 note *} Archacolngia Cantiana 41.

^{page 275 note *} Archaeologia Cantiana, vi. 215.

page 275 note † Ibid. viii. 284.

^{page 276 note *} See also Archaeologia, xlv. 445.

^{page 279 note *} Surtees Soc. ii. 13. The list of vestments concludes with the following interesting account of what became of Antony Bek's seals: ‘In die sepulturæ ejus, fracta fuerunt ejus sigilla, et sancto Cuthberto oblata.’ This appears to have been the regular custom at Durham, as we learn from the following notices :—

Ralph Elambard, 1099–1128 :

‘Post cujus mortem fracta fuerunt sigilla ejusdem et Sancto Cuthberto oblata.’

Geoffrey Rufus, 1133–1140 :

‘Post obitum ejusdem fracta fuerunt ejus sigilla et Sancto Cuthberto oblata.’

Philip de Poitou, 1197–1208 :

‘Post obitum ejusdem fracta fuerunt ejus sigilla et Sancto Cuthberto oblata.’

Richard de Marisco, 1217–1226 :

‘In die sepulturæ ejus fracta fuerunt sigilla ejusdem et Sancto Cuthberto oblata.’

Richard de Poore, 1229–1237 ; Walter de Kirkham, 1249–1260; Robert Stickhill, 1261–1274 ; Robert de Insula, 1274–1283 :

‘Post ejus obitum sigilla ejus fuerunt fracta et Sancto Cuthberto oblata.’ Louis do Beaumont, 1318–1333 :

‘In die sepulturæ suæ fracta fuerunt sigilla ejus cum eathenis argenteis et Sancto Cuthberto oblata ut patet per Instrumentum Hugonis Palmer inde confectum.’

Richard de Bury, 1333–1345 :

‘Post mortem Ricardi Byry Episcopi fracta fuerunt iiij sigilla ejusdem et Sancto Cuthberto oblata, ex quibus Ricardus do Wolveston Feretrarius fecit unum calicem argenteum ct deauratum qui est ad Altare Sancti Johannis Baptistæ in orientali parte Ecclesiæ: sub cujus calicis pede sculpti sunt hi duo versus subscript—

Hie ciphus insignis fit Præsulis ex tetra signis

Ri[cardi] Dunolmensis quarti natu Byriensis.’

Thomas de Hatfield, 1345–1381:

‘Et audita morte ejus fracta fuerunt ejus sigilla ct Sancto Cuthberto oblata : de quibus facta fuit una Ymago Episcopi argontea et deaurata ad caput Eeretri appensa, ae una lamina argentea et deaurata ex transverso Ymaginis, in qua sunt hii versus—

John Alvervilla monachus capiendo sigilla

Ex Hatfeld Thomas sic disponit benc pro me.’

See also Instrumentum super oblacionem sigillorum domini Lodoncici episcopi ad feretrum S. Cuthberti (Surtees Soc. 9, cxxviii.); and Nota deliberacionum sigillorum Johannis Shcrewod quondam episcopi Dunelmensis (ib. ccclxxxvii.)

‘In connection with these entries it may be worth noticing that in the province of Canterbury the ancient custom was to render up the seals of deceased bishops to the archbishop, or to the prior of Canterbury if the metropolitan see was vacant. (See Archaeological Journal, xi. 274.) According to Mr. Maskoll (Mon. Bit. 2d ed. ii. clxv.)the seals of bishops deceased are still transmitted to Lambeth, where they are broken. Whether such a practice existed in the province of York does not appear. For the breaking of the seal of a defunct abbot of Crokesden in full chapter, immediately after the election of his successor in 1313, see “Annals of Crokesden Abbey,” Coll. Top. et Gen. ii. 303. And Matthew Paris records the breaking of the seal of Ralph de Arundel, abbot of Westminster, on his deposition from office in 1214.

^{page 280 note *} Archacoloflia, xxvii. 401.

page 280 note † Louis de Beaumont's grandfather, John de Brienne, was crowned King of Jerusalem in 1209.

^{page 281 note *} Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, 2d ed. ii. 328.

^{page 284 note *} The seal of Lucas, archbishop of Dublin, 1238, represents him holding a crosier, and not a cross.

^{page 294 note *} See also Archaeologia, xlv. 445.

^{page 297 note *} 2d S. vol. iv. 394.

^{page 305 note *} Wills and Inventories (Surtees Society, 2), 12.

page 305 note † Also on the countcrsoal of Simon de Langham (Ely, 1362).

^{page 306 note *} The Society is indebted to the Kent Archæological Society for the loan of the illustrations of the soals and counterseals of archbishops Richard, Langton, Wethershed, and Boniface.