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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
I have great pleasure in being able to submit to the notice of the Society a large collection of relics, interesting, not only from the use to which they have been applied, but also from the excellence of their workmanship. They will be recognized as belonging to the class of antiquities known as Pilgrims’ Signs.
page 129 note a Journal of British Archseol. Assoc. vol. i. p. 200. See also “Wright's Archaeological Album.
page 129 note b Collectanea Antiqua, vol. i. p. 81, pl. xxxi.–xxxiii., p. 115, pl. xliii.; vol. ii. p. 43, pi. xvi.–xix.; vol. iv. p. 165, pi. xxxiv.
page 129 note c Rigollot, “Monnaies des Eveques des Innocents.” Paris, 1837. Bulletin Monumental, torn. xix. p. 504. A work has lately appeared entitled “Notice sur des Plombs histories trouve's dans la Seine, par Arthur Forgeais. Paris, 1858,” in which many specimens are described and engraved.
page 131 note a For an account of Walsingham Abbey and particulars as to the signs relating to it see a memoir by the Rev. James Lee Warner, Archseological Journal, vol. xiii. p. 115.
page 132 note a The sign is engraved in Collectanea Antiqua, vol. iv. pi. xxxix. as well as in the Bulletin Moumental, torn. xix. p. 506, and in M. Forgeais' work. The original is in the possession of M. Forgeais at Paris.
page 133 note a An ampulla on which is represented the martyrdom of Becket may be found engraved in Proceedings, vol. ii. p. 186.
page 133 note b Ezekiel, ix. 4, thus given in the Vulgate: “Signa Thau super frontes virorum gementium et dolentium super cunctis abominationibus.”
page 133 note c For an account of this saint, and representations of him, see Norfolk Archaeology, vol. ii. p. 280.
