page 419 note * The following reply has been received by the President from the Dean of Rochester:

“The Deanery, Rochester,

June 25, 1889.

Dear Sir,

You will be as delighted to read, as I am disappointed to write, that Mr. Pearson's design for substituting a stone open screen in place of the existing masonry between the choir and nave of our cathedral has been rejected by a majority of the Chapter ; but it will not be long before the desire, almost universally felt, to beautify the House, and to facilitate the Worship of God, will prevail over all opposition.

Faithfully yours,

S. Reynolds Hole,

Dean of Rochester.”

page 421 note * Mr. Soden Smith, who has a large number of these spoons, points out that none of his examples have a date letter, and he does not think they can be earlier than the time of Anne. He considers that they were used for clearing the spouts of small tea-pots, and extracting floating objects from the tea, and also for eating mulberries and strawberries, though he has not yet found positive evidence of the latter fact.

page 424 note * Jefferson's History and Antiquities of Carlisle, p. 326 ; Proc. S.A., 2d. S. vol. xii. pp. 111–113, 169.

page 426 note * Brit. Mus. Add. ch., 34, 949.

page 427 note * Brit. Arch. Assoc., Collectanea. Archæologica, vol. ii. p. 325.

page 429 note * Vol. i. p, 17, No. 118.

page 429 note † Catal. of Scals in the B.M., i., 18, n.

page 429 note ‡ At Paris, Archiv. Nat., I. 630.

page 429 note § At Canterbury Cath., C 78.