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Antiquarian and Literary Entelligence.

"Correspondents are requested to append their Addresses, not, unless agreeable, for publication, but in order that a copy of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE containing their Communications may be forwarded to them.]

ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
(Continued from p. 318.)

Saturday, July 26. MEETINGS OF SECTIONS. EXCURSION
70 MALVERN.

Ar the sectional meeting, in the Guildhall, Mr. FULLER RUSSELL in the chair, Mr. Bioxam read papers on the "Sepulchral Remains and the Monuments in Worcester Cathedral," Mr. J. Noake one on the "Ancient Guilds of the City," and Mr. Parsons one on "Little Malvern Priory."

Mr. Bloxam, having quoted the account given by Matthew Paris of the burial of King John in Worcester Cathedral, proceeded to say :

"On the 20th July, 1797, on the commencement of some repairs in the cathedral, the tomb of King John, which occupied the same position it does now, was proposed to be removed, when a stone coffin was discovered at the bottom of the tomb, level with the pavement; this was cut out of Higley stone, and only covered with two elm boards. On examining the coffin, it was found to contain the remains of the king. Part of the royal apparel was firm in texture, but the colour was gone; part of the sword and leather sheath were lying on the left side of the body, but much mouldered; the boots on the feet were more perfect; part of one of the robes appeared to have been embroidered; the head was covered with a close-fitting skill cap, which appeared to have been buckled under the chin. A quantity of a sort of white paste lay in two or three lumps on and below the belly, which, it was supposed, had been poured into the body on the intestines being taken out. This was, I think, the salt of which Matthew Paris speaks, used for preserving the body for a time. The tomb was shortly after closed. It is hardly to be doubted that the body of the king had been arrayed in the same apparel as that exhibited on his effigy, which originally formed the lid or cover to the stone coffin. This I shall presently attempt to describe. The high tomb on which the effigy is now placed was probably er cted in the early part of the sixteenth century, after the burial of Prince Arthur, when the body must have been disclosed, and the cron and sceptre, if any (probably of base metal, as those found in the tomb of Edward I.), removed.

"On the 7th of May, 1856, the workmen engaged on the repairs of the cathedral, whilst excavating for foundations at the foot of the south-west buttress of the south-east transept, discovered two stone coffins containing skeletons, unusually perfect, and apparently in the exact position in which the bodies had been originally deposited. Both coffins contained the remains of men of large stature, one measuring 6 ft. 6 in. in height. The coffin first discovered was 5 ft. below the surface of the ground, and 2 ft. 9 in. from the base of the buttress, with the Tower end pointing about four degrees northward of east. It was roughly hewn out of an entire block of sandstone, sin ilar to that of which the ancient walls of the cathedral were built, and with a recess (in the shape of a dove-tail) formed for the head. There was no cover to this coffin. It may have contained the remains of one of the bishops, and covered by one of the recumbent effigies now lying in the cathedral. The coffin secondly discovered, and apparently the most ancient, is of much ruder workmanship than the former, being constructed of several small blocks of stone, roughly worked, with the recess for the head formed of th ea

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