. Ireland in London. roductions,though few, are of the highest excellence, andwhose son, William Stephen Mossop, , fol-lowed his fathers profession, and produced somefine work. ANTIQUITIES. In the room immediately at the top of the grandstaircase will be found a collection of British andIrish antiquities. The Irish assortment includesa number of curious bronze objects—bridles, bits,sickles, bowls, collars, and helmets, iron swordsand spear-heads, and some very pretty and • We sty alltgtd baseness, because Sir Isaac New-ton is stated to have assayed the coins in England, andfound them gen
. Ireland in London. roductions,though few, are of the highest excellence, andwhose son, William Stephen Mossop, , fol-lowed his fathers profession, and produced somefine work. ANTIQUITIES. In the room immediately at the top of the grandstaircase will be found a collection of British andIrish antiquities. The Irish assortment includesa number of curious bronze objects—bridles, bits,sickles, bowls, collars, and helmets, iron swordsand spear-heads, and some very pretty and • We sty alltgtd baseness, because Sir Isaac New-ton is stated to have assayed the coins in England, andfound them genuine. peculiar glass beads and enamelled more valuable and interesting collection, hew-ever, is to be found placed, strangely enough, inthe Anglo-Saxon Room, next door. Theycomprise a number of bronze bells and crozierspins, brooches, and specimens of bookbinding ofthe early Christian period in Ireland. Thereare 22 of those artistic brooches so dear to thehearts of our antiquaries, including a remark-. ARTHUIi O SHAUGHNESSY, WITH AUTOGRAPH. able bronze specimen from Drogheda, with ringsfour inches in diameter, and a pin nearly a footlong; a large number of beautiful pins, many ofthem harp-shaped, from Westmeath and Gal way;a figure from a shrine, found buried near Abbey, Thomas-street, Dublin; and thetop of a processional cross, finely decorated. There are also seven bells of great antiquity,those of Saints Cummin and Caimin (KingsCounty), St. Conaill of Inishkeel (Donegal), (Queens County), St. Senan of Iniscat-tery, St. Ruadhan of Lorrha (county Tipperary),and several others. Most of these bells were inthe hereditary keeping of particular Irishfamilies, and have an authentic history. Thus,the Breslins had charge of St. Conaills Bell, andthe Keanes of Clare that of St. Senan, called theClogh Oir, or Golden Bell ; the former bell W P8 Ireland in London. sold in 1835 by Connell OBresliu, a poor man,but the oldest representative of the family, an
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