case No. xxxix., marked S. 7) thus described in the catalogue: "Subject, the Bucks' Arms, coat of arms with stag in centre and motto 'Freedom with Innocence,' crest, a plough with motto 'Industry produceth Wealth,' supporters, two huntsmen, and legend' We obey,' below a figure group inscribed Unanimity is the strength of Society,' and on each side allegorical figures.'

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Another similar mug is in the collection of china at the British Museum, and is marked "Sadler, Liverpool." John Sadler, as is well-known, was the inventor of printing on porcelain from copper plates, hence the name printed ware." He is said to have first ornamented cups in this manner about 1750. His name appears on other medallions in the Mayer Museum, with portraits,―J. Sadler, Liverp., enam! executed probably about 1756, and earlier.

One other relic has come under my notice. It is preserved in the Mayer Museum, Liverpool, and is thus described in the catalogue,1 "No. 324 oval medallion on copper, covered with white enamel, upon which is transfer printed the arms and insignia of the Honourable Society of Bucks," [the ornamentation is then described]. "The medallion is signed Sadler, Liverpool," etc. A reduced (autotype) plate is given in the catalogue (pl. xiv.), the original enamel measures 5 inches by 4 inches. I examined this a year or two ago and the large size presents a little difficulty as to the purpose for which it was intended; of course it may have been the lid of a snuff box, but I am inclined to think it was for another purpose.

There is one portion of the Regalia mentioned in the Ms. Constitutions which I am unable to explain. It may, however, be the enamel. The 12th of the rules or Bye-laws, orders that the Secretary, on receiving the key of the box where the regalia is kept, is to deliver the various orders of the officers to their respective wearers, and it is added

"N.B.-If the Secretary deliver a plate to any member without having on his order, to forfeit sixpence."

This might of course refer to a platter, as the Lodge appears to have been held at table, but in the ceremony of making, when the candidate is brought in procession into the Lodge, it is stated that "the staves [ie. keepers] with their order raising the plate [are] to proceed the deputies to the Grand almost." The plate is here again mentioned. A common meaning of the word is any piece of thin metal, and it may be that this enamelled plate, preserved at Liverpool, bearing the arms and insignia of the order, was borne by the two keepers somewhat in the manner of a banner.

Mr. Wallis, in the letter so often referred to, writes :-" The most curious illustration of this discussion has, however, very recently come into my hands, and is, indeed, the foundation of the present sketch. It is an old oil painting, 20 inches by 16 inches, in Hogarth's manner, which has been very carefully lined and retouched, here and there not so skilfully. Hanging unframed on the top rail of a bookstall in Derby Market Hall (where patient search amongst much rubbish has occasionally been well rewarded), it presented a dingy aspect, (having become my own for a very moderate sum) the judicious application of soap-and-water brought out a convivial scene which I will try to describe. In the foreground a large buckskin lies in folds, as though the upper fastenings, which held it up like a curtain, had given way, and the skin in falling had disclosed to the uninitiated a Grand Lodge of Bucks during the hour of refreshment. The Grand Master, or Grand Buck, sits in a chair of state, highbacked, lined with crimson velvet, and surmounted by a large heraldic device. A garter backed by a mace and sword in saltire, and surrounded by oak-leaves, contains these arms: Azure a fess erminois between two lions passant or; ensigned with a demi-lion rampant of the field, langued gules, and armed argent. The Grand Buck is dressed in snuff coloured coat and breeches, white waistcoat and stockings, frilled and ruffled shirt, and shoes with broad silver buckles. A white bob-wig surmounted by a tricorne hat completes the ordinary costume of a gentleman living in the second Georgian period. In addition, as denoting his rank in the society, a blue collar sustains an oval gold medallion around his neck, and upon a crimson sash fringed with gold lace, falling from the right shoulder to the left hip, one may see that the words Freedom and Innocence' are embroidered in gold. With a jovial expression of countenance he flings aloft a goblet in his right hand, as in the act of proposing a toast; a buck's head wreathed with green leaves is placed before him upon a table (replenished with glasses, a bottle, a punch-bowl, and candles), around which several convives are seated, one of whom (the chaplain, as I guess by his cauliflower wig) is smoking a long church-warden' pipe with great gravity of demeanour. Bucks' heads and antlers adorn the walls of the apartment, upon which also hang various hats and coats. Upon the right-hand corner of the fallen buckskin curtain, in the foreground, is a mark, resembling the astrological sign of saturn or a gothic H.

1 Catalogue of the Medieval aud later Antiquities in the Mayer Museum, by C. T. Gatty, F.S.A. Liverpool, 1883, p. 55.