you, if you have found the subject somewhat dry, that I have done my very best to get some sparks out of it.

The following is a list of the drawings of ancient iron-work in illustration of the above paper exhibited by Mr. Pope; those printed in italics are reproduced in Plates xi., xii. and xiii.

RAILINGS, &C.-1 and 2, Bath Abbey; 3, Luckington Church; 4, Bristol Cathedral; 5, Berkeley Church; 6, Bradford; 7, Hereford Cathedral; 8, Langley Burrell; 9, S. Petherton; 10 and 11, Malmesbury.

HINGES, &C.-12, Branscombe, Devon; 13, Cirencester Church; 14, Wedmore Church; 15, Inglesham Church; 16, Newnton; 17, Norton; 18, Hawkesbury; 19, Kempsford; 20, Moorlinch 21, Whitchurch; 22, Winterbourne; 23, Melksham; 24, Bleadon; 25, Box; 26, Abson; 27, Tewkesbury.

ESCUTCHEONS, RINGS, &c.-28, Corsham; 29, E. Brent; 30, Ubley; 31, Sherbourne; 32, Horton; 33, Wanborough; 34, Locking; 35, Colyton; 36, Portbury; 37, Iron Acton; 38, Portbury; 39, L. Sodbury; 40, Chew Magna; 41, Portishead; 42 and 43, Redcliff; 44, Berkeley.

LOCKS.-45, Little Sodbury; 46, Ottery St. Mary; 47, Christ Church, Bristol; 48, Old Iron Key.

CASEMENT FASTENINGS.-49, Bristol; 50, Pucklechurch; 51, Winterbourne; 52, Corsham; 53, Cromhall; 54, Bishopstone; 55, Codford; 56, Bristol; 57, Little Sodbury; 58, Axmouth; 59, Sodbury; 60, Liddington, Wilts.

HOUR-GLASS STANDS, SCRAPERS, KNOCKERS, GRILLAGE, &c. -61, Somerford Keynes; 62, Inglesham; 63, Kempsford; 64, near Barnstaple; 65, Laycock; 66, Luckington; 67, Marshfield; 68, Lyme Regis; 69, Weston Zoyland; 70, Iron Acton; 71, near Bridgwater; 72, Gurney St. Manor; 73, Publow; 74, Draycot, Wilts; 75, Dartmouth; 76, Huntspill; 77, Sharncote; 78, 79, Alms Box, Sutton Benger, Wilts; 80, 81, Hour-glass and Bracket, St. John's Church, Bristol.

RAILINGS. 82, Sherston Church; 83, Chew-Stoke; 84, Gate, Patchford; 85, Panel, Bristol: 86, and 87, Lamp brackets, Ledbury; 88, St. Stephen's, Bristol; 89, Ledbury; 90, Carew; 91, Bristol.

On an Ancient Cope at Patton, Somerset.

BY LIEUT.-COL. J. R. BRAMBLE, HON. TREASURER.

(Read December 15th, 1885.)

IN the Account Books for the Parish of Yatton, the following entries appear, under date of 1481 :—

"Paid at Bristow for a Sewte of Vestments and

a Cope.

£xxvi

"In costs spende abowth the buying of the same
Vestments.

"Paid at Bristow in coste to John Beks, when he

fett home ye Vestments.

vd

"I paide to ye Bushope ys man for halowyng of

ye Vestments.

vid

What became of the "Sewte of Vestments" I am unable to tell you; probably when in the years 1547 or 8, " the images and iryn" in the church were taken down, and the "Sylvr Crosse of our Church was sold by the kenne," and the proceeds bestowed "upon the makyng of a syrten Sllusse, or yere ajenste ye rags of the salt water," the vestments suffered a similar fate. But what from its design I cannot doubt to have been the Cope to which the entry refers was made into a Pall-not into an altar cloth as some have supposed-and by the courtesy of the Rev. Prebendary Walrond, the Vicar of the Parish, I have the pleasure of being able to exhibit it to you this evening.

As most of the Members are aware, the cope is the processional, as distinguished from the eucharistic vestment of the Mediæval Church. The eucharistic vestment or chasuble is often shortly described in ancient documents as simply a "vestment," or with its accessories as a "suit of vestments." The