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VIII. Observations on the historical evidence respecting the Implication of Lord Mounteagle as a Conspirator in the Gunpowder Treason. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by David Jardine, Esq., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Jardine David
Published: June 2012

The perusal of the curious letters of Thomas Winter and Lord Mounteagle, lately discovered by Mr. Bruce, suggested to my mind some remarks upon the historical effect of those letters which I have already submitted through you to the Society of Antiquaries. In my former communication I fully explained my reasons for thinking that the letter of Lord Mounteagle published by Mr. Bruce does not afford a solution of the problem respecting that nobleman's implication in the Gunpowder Plot; and I further expressed an opinion that the tendency of the evidence we now possess is to exonerate his character from the suspicion of having been in the first instance a party to the plot, and having afterwards betrayed his companions.
XXV. Political Poems of the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV., communicated by Sir Frederic Madden, K.H., in a Letter to John Gage Rokewode, Esq. Director S.A.
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

A Short time ago I took an opportunity of laying before the Society of Antiquaries by your hands, a Letter containing much interesting information on the state of parties in the year 1454; and I now beg leave to add, as a supplementary communication, copies of several Political Poems written at various periods of the reigns of Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth, all of which, with the exception of the first, have hitherto remained unpublished. Documents of this kind are confessedly not beneath the notice of the historian, since they shew the popular feelings of the time better than any other contemporary record, and often mention minute circumstances worthy of note, which may in vain be sought for elsewhere. In the Transactions of the Society some few specimens of this political versification have already appeared, of the reigns of Edward the Third, Richard the Second, and Edward the Fourth, and some others belonging to the reign of Henry the Sixth, may be found in the Excerpta Historica Of the six poems now sent, five were composed by adherents of the house of York, the first of which relates to the murder of the Duke of Suffolk, in 1450; the second to the chiefs of the Yorkist faction, probably about May, 1460; the third to the battle of Northampton, in July following; the fourth, to the policy and position of the adverse parties, probably towards the end of the same year; and the fifth to the battle of Towton, in 1461. The remaining poem was written by a Lancastrian, and presents a curious contrast to the others. It enumerates the principal Lords on the King's side, and, under the metaphor of a ship, describes the position of each in the guidance and government of the state towards the close of the year 1458.
XXIII.—Continuation of the History and Progress of the Art of Watchmaking. In a Second Letter from Octavius Morgan, Esq., M.P., F.S.A. to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. Secretary
Authors: Morgan Octavius
Published: June 2012

My former letter to you on “The History and Progress of the Art of Watchmaking,” and the exhibition of ancient Watches which accompanied it, having created some interest on the subject, I am induced to exhibit on the table of our Society some additions which I have since then made to my Collection, and which I will accompany with some observations on them, and such further particulars respecting the history of watches in general as I have been able to collect.
XXIII.—On the Relationship between Richard Fitz-James, Bishop of London, and Lord Chief Justice Sir John Fitz-James. By Edward Foss, Esq., F.S.A.
Authors: Foss Edward
Published: June 2012

It too often happens, among biographers and genealogists, that erroneous dates and lineages, given by the first writer, are adopted without inquiry by those who follow him. Generations are thus not unfrequently omitted in pedigrees, and members of a family, bearing the same Christian name, become confounded with each other. Puzzling as every one engaged in such investigations must have found this practice in private descents, errors of this description are magnified in importance, when they have reference to persons of note and position; involving as they must do the difficulty of connecting the real parties with the facts that relate to them.
XXXIV.—Additional Remarks on the Hide of Land, and on some Ancient Manorial Customs in Oxfordshire. By Benjamin Williams, Esq.: in a Letter to Rear-Admiral W. H. Smyth, V.P.
Authors: Williams Benjamin
Published: June 2012

Since I submitted to you the paper which the Society of Antiquaries has done me the honour of printing in the thirty-third volume of the Archæologia, pp. 269-278, I have met with a valuation of another manor, Shifford, in the same parish, anno 1608, in which the “yeard of land” is said to contain “above thirty-five acres by estimation.”
VIII.—Letter from Sir Henry Ellis to Viscount Mahon, P.S.A.; upon a Gold Ornament found near Mundesley, in Norfolk
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

By the kindness of Miss Gurney of North Repps, in Norfolk, I am permitted to lay before your Lordship and the Society a jewel or ornament, (Plate VII. fig. 1.) composed of an ancient cast from a gold coin of the Emperor Mauricius, set into gold of rough workmanship, with a ring or loop at top to suspend it by, and bits of red glass or stones, let in, in a double row on that side which bears the obverse of the coin, forming a border to it. To these rather a rich appearance is given by bits of stamped gold being placed under each.
XI.—On the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Seal in the Reign of King John. By Edward Foss, Esq., F.S.A.
Authors: Foss Edward
Published: June 2012

Scarcely two writers agree either in the names or the succession of the Lord Chancellors of the reign of King John. The earlier compilers of the list of those officers had to rely either on the historians, who were often mistaken, or on their own examination of original documents, which was necessarily limited and unsatisfactory. Since the publications issued by the Record Commission, and subsequently by royal authority, the means of arriving at correctness have been materially increased; and recent authors must be presumed to have used them. Much allowance is therefore to be made for the errors of the former, while the assertions of the latter become a fair subject of critical inquiry; the more especially in John's reign, most of the records of which have been published in extenso.
XXIV. Inedited Documents relating to the Imprisonment and Condemnation of Sir Thomas More: Communicated by John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A., in a Letter to Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S., Treasurer S.A.
Authors: Bruce John
Published: June 2012

If you agree with me in considering the two documents appended to this communication to be worthy of the attention of the Society of Antiquaries, I shall feel myself obliged by your transmitting them to the Secretary. They relate to that pure-minded sufferer for conscience-sake Sir Thomas More, whose character and fate render any thing which concerns him in the latter period of his life, of interest to the constitutional lawyer and the historian, as well as to the biographer.
I. Observations on the Institution of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. By Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G., addressed to Hudson Gurney, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President; illustrated by the Accounts of the Great Wardrobe of King Edward the Third, from the 29th of September 1344 to the 1st of August 1345; and again from the 21st of December 1345 to the 31st of January 1349
Authors: Nicolas Nicholas Harris
Published: June 2012

Every thing that relates to the History and Institutions of this Country has strong claims upon the attention of the Society of Antiquaries; and I therefore do myself the honour of submitting for its consideration the accompanying Observations on the order of the Garter.
III. Notes upon a Preceptory of the Templars at Garway, in the County of Hereford, with Plans, Copies of Inscriptions, and Illustrations of a Building of the Hospitallers at that place: by the Rev. John Webb, F.S.A., Rector of Tretire in Herefordshire: in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Webb John
Published: June 2012

Though a variety of circumstances have deprived me of the pleasure of being for some time so useful a member of the Society of Antiquaries as I could desire, I venture once more to appear before them, through your kind intervention, with some Observations upon a singular Relic of antiquity in my neighbourhood, which has of late excited much curiosity among visitors and tourists; and I hope that some account of it miy prove not uninteresting to our Society.
XII. Observations on Incised Sepulchral Slabs, with Descriptions of two remarkable examples, representing Knights in the cross-legged attitude, which exist at Avenbury, in Herefordshire, and Bitton, in Gloucestershire. Communicated by Albert Way, Esq., Director, in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary
Authors: Way Albert
Published: June 2012

In the church of Avenbury, a village situated near Bromyard, in the county of Hereford, on the confines of Worcestershire, a curious sepulchral memorial is preserved, of which, as far as I am aware, no description or representation has been given. The county of Hereford, hitherto little visited by persons whose researches are directed to architectural and monumental antiquities, presents a rich field for observation in the interesting details which are to be found in the churches,—such as sepulchral effigies, painted glass, and sculpture; antiquities of every period, the greater part of which have remained unnoticed, are also to be found in various parts of the county, and they well deserve careful investigation.
XVIII. Letter from the Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt to Sir Henry Ellis, K. H. Secretary, describing several Vessels of glass and earthenware, and Ornaments, discovered near Chilgrove, in Sussex
Authors: Harcourt L. Vernon
Published: June 2012

I beg leave to present to the Society of Antiquaries the accompanying drawings, executed by Mrs. Vernon Harcourt, of some Antiquities recently discovered on the estate of Leyland Woods, Esq. near his residence at Chilgrove, in the county of Sussex, about five miles from Chichester: they consist partly of vessels intended to hold liquors, and partly of female ornaments, bracelets, and rings. Three of the Vessels are of glass (See Pl. IX.), one of which has been broken most unfortunately, for the glass is much clearer than in the others, and it is curiously ornamented with a linked pattern. The others are of coarse clay, without inscriptions, or any elaborate ornament. I am aware that vessels of this sort have been found in such abundance that they might scarcely seem to deserve the notice of the Society, were I not desirous to discuss the question which has been raised, whether they are of British or of Roman origin. The former opinion rests upon the assertion, that glass is more a British than a Roman manufacture, and that it does not occur in Roman sepulchres; that the earthenware vessels display no refinement of art, and while they are too large for lachrymatories, they are too small for cinerary urns; that the ornaments are evidently of British manufacture; for I found by an analysis of some fragments, that one hundred grains contained sixty-eight of copper and twenty-eight of tin, the rest being earth accidentally mixed with them, and zinc to the amount of less than a grain: there were traces of iron, but nothing more. Copper and tin are the chief mineral products of this island. And, lastly, that the bodies near which they were found, had been interred instead of burnt.
XXVII. An Account of some Specimens of the Works of Maso Finiguerra, the Inventor of the Art of taking Impressions on Paper from Engraved Plates of Metal: by Hugh W. Diamond, Esq. F.S.A., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Diamond Hugh W.
Published: June 2012

By the liberality of my friends, Messrs. Smith, of Lisle Street, I have the pleasure of exhibiting to the Society of Antiquaries the accompanying Specimens of the works of that most interesting artist Maso Finiguerra, who was undoubtedly the inventor of the art of taking Impressions on Paper from engraved plates of Metal; and I am also entirely indebted to their kindness for being enabled to give you the following short statement respecting them, for I am certain that every one connected with the Society will feel an interest in these fine specimens of the early art of Engraving. But, in the first instance, I trust that I may be excused in requesting that every care may be used in handling them, and that they may not be removed from the cases. At the sale of Sir Mark Sykes, in 1824, these now exhibited alone fetched a sum exceeding eight hundred pounds; and as all objects of Art have greatly increased, and in many instances doubled their value since that time, these must be deemed of very great price, and deserving the utmost care.
XXXI. A few Remarks on the Discovery of the Remains of William de Warren, and his wife Gundrad, among the ruins of the Priory of Saint Pancras, at Southover, near Lewes, in Sussex. By Gideon Algernon Mantell, Esq. LL.D., F.R.S., &c., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Mantell Gideon Algernon
Published: June 2012

It is not a little remarkable that so few objects of geological, or antiquarian, interest should hitherto have been brought to light, by the excavations and cuttings made, during the formation of the numerous lines of railway, in various parts of England. Extensive as are these operations, the accessions to the collection of the geologist, and to the cabinet of the antiquary, have been comparatively unimportant. The most interesting archaeological discovery effected by the railway cuttings, is unquestionably that which took place, about six weeks since, in the ruins of Lewes Priory; namely, of the two leaden coffers, containing the remains of the founder and foundress of that once celebrated religious establishment.
VI.—Remarks on the Angon, or barbed Javelin of the Franks, described by Agathias
Authors: Wylie William Michael
Published: June 2012

I told you I had found the angon, and you will be able to judge of the correctness of my statement from the accompanying notes and drawings, which you can lay before the Society.

As a sequel of your paper, and bearing also on an historical fact, the subject may interest those of our Fellows who do not usually give their attention to this branch of antiquities.
XIV.—Ancient Gold Ornaments: described by John Yonge Akerman, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: June 2012

With the exception of Figs. 1, 2, 3, the Gold Ornaments engraved in Plate VIII. have no reference whatever to each other. The first three were obtained by Viscount Strangford, Director of the Society, from a Greek priest at Milo, in the year 1820. Figs. 1 and 3 appear to have formed the ends of a light chain, and the other (fig. 2) to have been pendent by a small loop on the top of the head. The figure has unfortunately lost the feet and the left hand, but the other parts are perfect. The right hand is raised in an admonitory attitude. The forehead appears as if encircled with a wreath, while the body is crossed by what would seem to be intended for the tendril of a vine. The necklace was formerly in the collection of the late Mr. H. P. Borrell, of Smyrna, but I am informed by his brother, Mr. Maximilian Borrell, who now possesses it, that no record exists of its discovery, and that he cannot learn the name of the individual from whom it was purchased. It was well known that Mr. H. P. Borrell was in the habit of purchasing ancient coins, which were sent to him from all parts of Greece and Asia-Minor, and that many rare and unique specimens fell into his hands, of which he contributed descriptions in various volumes of the Numismatic Chronicle. The necklace may, therefore, have been included in one of these numerous consignments, and we can scarcely indulge the hope that the place of its discovery will ever be made known. As an example of ancient art, it may vie with the most elaborate and beautiful specimens of goldsmiths' work of any age or period. The details are wonderfully minute and delicate, even the backs of the button-like objects at the ends of the pendent cords being elaborately finished.
V. A Letter from John Gage Rokewode, Esq. F.R.S., Director, to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary, on the sculptured figures of Welsh Knights at Kilpeck Church in Herefordshire
Authors: Rokewode John Gage
Published: June 2012

I have the honor to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries four plaster Casts of figures in alto relievo, from the south door of Kilpeck church, in Herefordshire. Two represent Apostles, holding the book of the Gospels, and a cross, with a nimbus at the back of each head: the other two are the effigies of Welsh Knights.
VII. Letter from Hudson Gurney, Esq. V.P., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary, accompanying Casts of Eight Punic Inscriptions found on the site of Carthage
Authors: Gurney Hudson
Published: June 2012

I beg to lay upon the table of the Society of Antiquaries, the Casts of eight Punic Inscriptions, which have been sent me from Copenhagen, by M. De Falbe, captain in the Danish navy, and formerly Consul General of Denmark at Tunis, who was the principal originator of a Society for making Researches on the site of Carthage, for which purpose he returned to Africa in 1837.
XIV. Letter from Albert Way, Esq. Director, to Hudson Gurney, Esq. Vice-President, descriptive of the Tabula of Gold, presented by the Emperor Henry II. to the Cathedral of Basle
Authors: Way Albert
Published: June 2012

One of the most remarkable existing specimens of the class of art to which, from the peculiar Oriental character which marks either the general design, or the accessary details, the distinctive name of Byzantine has been assigned, is submitted to the inspection of the Society of Antiquaries, by the obliging permission of the proprietor, Colonel Theubet, of Porrentruy, Canton of Berne. It is a golden tabula, which was presented at the commencement of the eleventh century to the Cathedral of Basle, as a votive offering for the decoration of the altar, by the Emperor Henry II. who had raised that structure from ruins, and bestowed upon it numerous rich ornaments, of which one, a precious crucifix, containing a fragment of the true cross, has recently been presented to the Cathedral of Cologne by his Majesty the King of Prussia. The tabula is formed, as it is stated, of cedar-wood, covered with a thin coating of pure gold; the design, which in some parts is in very high relief, being hammered out, or, as it is technically termed, repoussé, and worked up with the tool and burnisher. Its value has been rated in the old Chronicle of Basle at 73000 gulden, “septem aureorum millia” called by another writer “florenorum,” or gold crowns.
XXIII. On Stone Shot found in the Ditch of the Tower of London: in a Letter from Robert Porrett, Esq., F.S.A., to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq., K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Porrett Robert
Published: June 2012

The Board of Ordnance having at your request presented to the Society of Antiquaries one of the stone Shot recently dug out of the bed of the ditch of this fortress, I have considered that it might not be altogether uninteresting to the Society to be made acquainted with such information respecting it as my residence within the garrison has afforded me facilities of obtaining.
XXIX. Account of the Monumental Brass of Bishop Hallum in the Cathedral Church of Constance. By R. Pearsall, Esq. of Carlsruhe. Communicated in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, from the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe, M.A., F.S.A., of Bitton
Authors: Pearsall R.
Published: June 2012

I have had the pleasure of receiving from my friend Mr. Pearsall, of Carlsruhe (who, by his very interesting communications, is already known to the Society of Antiquaries), a Description and Rubbing of the monumental brass of Bishop Hallum, in the cathedral of Constance; both which I hope may be acceptable to the Society, and therefore I beg leave to put them into your hands.
IV. Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to the share taken by him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot. Communicated by Frederic Madden, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S., Treasurer
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

The publication of the curious Chronicle relative to the latter part of Edward the Third's reign, so ably illustrated by you in the last portion of the Archæologia, has led me more particularly to examine the volume in which that Narrative, together with many other historical and legal Tracts, is bound up, forming Nos. 6215—6232, of the Harleian Collection. The greater part of these Tracts, as you are, no doubt, aware, were certainly once in the possession of Stow (several of them being written with his own hand), and after his death [1605] passed, with his other papers, into the hands of Sir Simonds d'Ewes, whence they were transferred to the noble library of the Earl of Oxford. So far all is void of difficulty. But there is yet another possessor to be accounted for, between the period of Stow's decease and the acquisition of these MSS. by Sir Simonds d'Ewes—I mean, the person who has numbered, and prefixed a title to, the greater part of the contents of the volume in question, and who simply signs his initials R. ST. with the date 1615. I am unable, I confess, satisfactorily to ascertain the individual alluded to, but in No. 6219, I find a paper on the affairs of Scotland, headed by Stow thus: “Out of a great boke of Records borowyd of Master Stevenson.” I conjecture, therefore, that it is to this Master Stevenson we are chiefly indebted for the collection and preservation of the tracts, all of which are more or less valuable to the historian.
XII. Observations on the mode of Construction of the present old London Bridge, as discovered in the years 1826 and 1827: In a Letter from William Knight, Esq., to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Knight William
Published: June 2012

During the execution of the works of the new London Bridge, it became necessary to relieve the water-way of the River by the removal of two of the starlings and piers of the old structure, in consequence of the obstruction to the current by the erection of the cofferdams for the new works; in effecting this object, a practical opportunity presented itself of ascertaining the mode in which the piers of the original old Bridge were built. This subject having created much professional speculation, led me to preserve documents at the different stages of the work, that would enable me to form a judgment as to the manner in which our predecessors originally executed works of this nature, and I beg leave to have the honour of laying the result of my observations before the Society of Antiquaries.
XIX. An Account of the Mausoleum of Theodoric, at Ravenna; in a Letter from Sydney Smirke, Esq. F.S.A., to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Smirke Sydney
Published: June 2012

I have the honour to send you a drawing of the Mausoleum of Theodoric at Ravenna, with a request that you will lay it before the Society of Antiquaries, if you shall think it deserving of their notice.

Although the building must be well known to many who have visited that City, yet, as I am not aware that any detailed representation of it has been hitherto published, I trust that a drawing taken on the spot in 1825 will not be destitute of interest in the eye of an Antiquary. I have of course represented the building exactly in its present state: originally it must have presented a very different appearance. During the lapse of thirteen centuries the earth has accumulated round its basement to such a degree as to conceal the greater part of it beneath the general level of the surrounding country; the two flights of steps therefore are of modern construction, and from an examination of the upper story it is apparent that a decagonal arcade formerly encircled it, which has since either fallen into decay, or perhaps been purposely despoiled of its component stones. The part now standing is in good preservation, and is formed of ashlared blocks of limestone of large, but irregular, sizes.
VI. An Account of various Roman Antiquities discovered on the site of the Church of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, and in Eastcheap, in forming the northern Approaches of the new London Bridge; communicated by Alfred John Kempe, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Kempe Alfred John
Published: June 2012

In forming the northern or City entrance on the new London Bridge, it was thought expedient to construct a Sewer of very large dimensions under the line of approach; for this purpose, on the removal of the church of St. Michael, Crooked Lane (which stood on an immemorially ancient consecrated site), a transverse section was commenced of the eminence which rises from Thames Street towards the heart of the City. This excavation was made as deep as the low-water mark, about fifty feet below the present surface of the crest of the hill. In the course of the above operation, and of preparing for the construction of the northern land arches of the new bridge, three distinct ancient lines of embankment were discovered. These successive bulwarks, by which ground was gained by degrees from the Thames for the wharfs of the port of London, are not however the object of the present communication. Careful notes of these circumstances, as indeed of all other which relate in a constructive point of view to old London Bridge and the adjoining banks of the river, have been, I know, made by the Gentleman who has already contributed some of them to the Archæologia of the Society, and who will, I trust, be induced in the same way to follow up a subject for which he has acquired such good materials, and in connexion with which he has formed such a curious collection of articles of antiquity, particularly of the Roman era.
VII. Historical Remarks on the introduction of the game of Chess into Europe, and on the ancient Chess-men discovered in the Isle of Lewis; by Frederic Madden, Esq. F.R.S. in a Letter addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

The origin of the Game of Chess, like the origin of Romance, has been the subject of frequent discussion, and for a long period seemed to be enveloped in nearly equal obscurity. But, in tracing the former, we possess one considerable advantage over those who have discussed the source of fiction in the middle ages—the acknowledged fact, that the game of Chess could not have been produced by more minds than one, although it may subsequently have been modified, improved, or altered, according to the genius and habits of the people by whom it was adopted. It is sufficient, therefore, at present to assume, on the authorities produced by the learned Dr. Hyde and Sir William Jones, that for the invention and earliest form of this game we mustlook to India, from whence, through the medium of the Persians and Arabs (as demonstratively proved by the names of the chessmen), it was afterwards transmitted to the nations of Europe.
III. A Letter to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director, by William Young Ottley, Esq. F.S.A., &c., on a Manuscript in the British Museum, believed by him to be of the Second or Third Century, and containing the translation of Aratus's astronomical Poem by Cicero, accompanied by Drawings of the Constellations: with a preliminary Dissertation in proof of the use of Minuscule Writing by the ancient Romans; and a corrected edition of the Poem itself, including ten lines not heretofore known
Authors: Ottley William Young
Published: June 2012

You are aware that I have, at intervals, employed myself a good deal in the manuscript room of the British Museum, during the last four years, in researches among the Illuminated MSS. of the fifteenth century, on the subject of Costume; for the purpose of helping me to form a right judgment of the ages and country of certain books of wood-engravings, which are known by bibliographers under the name of Block-Books; and are commonly supposed to have given rise to the invention of Typography: for the controversy concerning this subject has long occupied my attention; and, although so many books have been written upon it during the last two centuries, I have become more and more persuaded, that the evidence on both sides must be subjected to a nicer examination, and sifting, than it has yet had, before we can hope to come to a right decision concerning it.
VIII. Account of the Discovery of an ancient Canoe at North Stoke in Sussex; by Thomas Phillips, Esq. R.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Phillips Thomas
Published: June 2012

If you deem the following statement of the late discovery of an ancient Canoe near the village of North Stoke, in the west of Sussex, with a description of it, and some observations concerning its probable antiquity, likely to interest or afford pleasure to the Members of the Society of Antiquaries, I would entreat the favour of you to lay it before them; together with a drawing of it, and a plan of the situation where it was found, and you will oblige
X. An Account of some Discoveries made in excavating the Foundations of Wymondham Abbey, with a Plan and Description of the Religious Establishment; communicated by Mr. Samuel Woodward, in a Letter addressed to Hudson Gurney, Esq. F.R.S., V.P., &c.
Authors: Woodward Samuel
Published: June 2012

The uncovering the ruins of Wymondham Abbey having been proceeded in to the extent originally proposed by the parish authorities, I now beg to lay before you the results; and, should the notice contain matter of sufficient interest to warrant your laying it before the Society of Antiquaries, I shall feel much honoured by your doing so.
XII. A brief Summary of the Wardrobe Accounts of the tenth, eleventh, and fourteenth years of King Edward the Second, contained in a Letter addressed by Thomas Stapleton, Esq. F.S.A. to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director
Authors: Stapleton Thomas
Published: June 2012

Having lately had an opportunity of carefully perusing the Account-book of the Comptroller of the Wardrobe for the fourteenth year of King Edward the Second, now in the possession of Mr. Joseph Hunton of Richmond, in Yorkshire, I have been induced to compare it with similar Account-books, for the tenth and eleventh years of the same King's reign, amongst the manuscripts in the library of the Society; and to abstract from them such entries as fix the date of transactions embodied in the narratives of chroniclers, supply the omissions of the genealogists of our royal and noble houses, or are curious as illustrating ancient customs and manners.
XIV. Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror. By Thomas Stapleton, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director
Authors: Stapleton Thomas
Published: June 2012

The Society has lately had before it a fac-simile of the inscription on the coffin-plate of Gunilda, sister of King Harold, and in an accompanying letter, Mr. Beltz has remarked upon the errors into which historians have been led by transferring incidents in the life of one princess to another of the same name and age. I wish to draw attention to a similar mistake, and shall be able to show from a contemporaneous charter, that Adeliza, Countess of Au. male (Albemarle), wife of Count Odo of Champagne, has been confounded with her mother of the same name, and that she was the niece and not the sister of King William the Conqueror.
XVI. Account of the Collection of Sepulchral Vessels found in 1821, in a Roman Ustrinum, at Litlington, near Royston; and now preserved in the Library of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In a Letter from Alfred John Kempe, Esq. F.S.A. addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Kempe Alfred John
Published: June 2012

I have lately had an opportunity of inspecting the numerous collection of Roman sepulchral vessels preserved in the library of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and which were found in the year 1821, on one of the College estates at Litlington near Royston, contiguous to that part of the Ickenild Street called the Ashwell Street Road. I hardly need observe, that this ancient way, crossing the kingdom from Norwich towards Old Sarum, had its appellation from the district of the Iceni, in which it began its course, and from its great antiquity was known in the Saxon times as the Iken-eld Strete, that is, the old street or way of the Iceni.
XX. Remarks on the architectural History of Westminster Hall: in a Letter from Sydney Smirke, Esq. F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Smirke Sydney
Published: June 2012

You are well aware that the great Hall at Westminster has been for some time past undergoing a complete repair and restoration under the direction of my brother, Sir Robert Smirke. A work of this nature, requiring at every step the closest observation and the most scrupulous care, is necessarily slow, and its progress was for a while suspended by the late destructive fire, from which this Hall was with difficulty preserved. In the execution of these repairs favourable opportunities present themselves of ascertaining the previous state of the building, and of verifying the changes which it is supposed to have undergone. To these interesting objects of inquiry neither my brother nor I have been indifferent, and it is at his suggestion that I have undertaken, as each part of the work is successively brought under examination, to note down and to submit to the Society of Antiquaries whatever may be thought worthy of being recorded in its Transactions.
III. Account of King Edward the Fourth's Second Invasion of England, in 1471, drawn up by one of his Followers; with the King's Letter to the Inhabitants of Bruges upon his success: translated from a French Manuscript in the Public Library at Ghent. Communicated by Edward Jerningham, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Jerningham Edward
Published: June 2012

I beg leave to communicate, through your hands, to the Society of Antiquaries, a fac-simile Copy of a curious Manuscript, preserved in the Public Library at Ghent.

The Manuscript appears to be an illuminated transcript of a Report, drawn up by one of the followers of King Edward the Fourth in his final expedition from Zeland, anno 1471, and forwarded to the Court of Charles the Bold Duke of Burgundy, through whose advice and aid the same had been principally planned and effected.
XXV. A Survey of Egypt and Syria, undertaken in the year 1422, by Sir Gilbert de Lannoy, Knt. translated from a Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with an Introductory Dissertation, and Notes of illustration and reference to the Croisades: By the Rev. John Webb, M.A. F.S.A. addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Webb John
Published: June 2012

I beg leave to transmit to you the accompanying volume, which in the absence of more important objects of attention, you will, perhaps, do me the favour to lay before the President and Society of Antiquaries.
XXXV. Observations on the Origin of the Pointed Arch in Architecture: in a Letter from Sydney Smirke, Esq. addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Smirke Sydney
Published: June 2012

I beg to be permitted to address a few observations to you on the subject of the Origin of the Pointed Arch in Architecture.

It may perhaps appear presumptuous in me to mingle in a controversy which has already attracted the enquiries and exercised the acuteness of many, whose information and ability have better qualified them for pursuing their researches with success: but as it seems to be thought by many that the question has not yet received a satisfactory solution, I trust I shall not be deemed an inexcusable trespasser upon your indulgence, if, in the hope of throwing some additional light upon that difficult subject, I solicit your attention to a quarter to which no one, I believe, has hitherto resorted for information; I allude, Sir to the interesting remains of Saracen Architecture, which are to be found at this day in Sicily.
XIV. The Anglo-Saxon Ceremonial of the Dedication and Consecration of Churches, illustrated from a Pontifical in the Public Library at Rouen, by John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. President
Authors: Gage John
Published: June 2012

The Dedication of Churches had its beginning under the OLD Law, and was observed by the holy Fathers in the NEW: whence the Synods both of St. Patrick and of Calcuith enjoined, that no priest should offer up sacrifice in any church to be built, unless the bishop of the diocess first came and hallowed it.
XVI. An Account of the Discovery at Hexham, in the County of Northumberland, of a brass vessel containing a number of the Anglo-Saxon Coins called Stycas; Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by John Adamson, Esq. M.R.S.L., F.SS.A., London and Edinburgh, F.L.S. Corresp. Memb. Roy. Acad. of Sciences at Lisbon, Memb. of the Roy. Soc. for Ancient Northern Literature at Copenhagen, one of the Secretaries of the Lit. and Phil. Soc. and of the Antiq. Soc. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, &c. &c.
Authors: Adamson John
Published: June 2012

The accidental discovery of a number of these Coins, greater than any hitherto made, having been communicated to me by the Reverend William Airey, the Perpetual Curate of Hexham, I am enabled to lay the following account before the Society of Antiquaries.

On Monday the fifteenth day of October last, the sexton and his assistant were employed in preparing a grave, at the west side of the north transept of the present church of Hexham, about three yards from the wall. It was in that part of the church-yard now used, which is called the Campey Hill; and which many years ago was an eminence, but has since been levelled; and, though not originally any portion of the burial ground, has been of late years appropriated for that purpose. Why this place received its name of the Campey Hill we have not at the present day the means of ascertaining; but the hill would appear to have been principally formed by the ruins of part of the church, and the consequent accumulations of soil and rubbish since the time at which the Coins were concealed, which was prior to the erection of the present building.
XX. Further Remarks on the Death of Richard the Second. By Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S. Treasurer, in a Letter addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Amyot Thomas
Published: June 2012

It was not my intention to trouble you further on the subject of the death of Richard the Second, until it might be rendered necessary by some remarks, which Mr. Tytler, in a very courteous communication, gave me reason to expect from him, and which, I understand, are still likely to appear. But having been recently favoured by Sir Harris Nicolas with the transcript of an important record connected with that event, I will not any longer defer availing myself of his permission to lay it before the Society. It has been extracted by him from the Minutes of Henry the Fourth's Privy Council, in the British Museum, which I am glad to learn he is now editing for the press, under the authority of the Commissioners of Records.
XXV. Account of some Antiquities found in the parish of Blandford St. Mary, in Dorsetshire, by the Rev. Thomas Rackett, F.R.S. and F.S.A., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Rackett Thomas
Published: June 2012

As some labourers were lately digging for the purpose of laying the foundation of a cottage, in a meadow a quarter of a mile from Blandford-bridge, in the parish of Blandford St. Mary, in Dorsetshire, on the estate of Sir John Wyldbore Smith, Bart, of the Down House in the same parish, they discovered six skeletons lying side by side, the heads toward the south-east, about two feet from the surface; a single skeleton, very perfect, was found at a little distance, and also a considerable quantity of detached human bones, the whole intermixed with pieces of decayed wood and black mould. Some of the persons employed being known to me, I desired them to examine the soil very carefully, and I have in consequence obtained the articles which accompany this letter, viz. Roman Coins of Trajan, Maximian, Licinius, and Constantine, and a Greek Coin, a bronze figure of our Saviour, and a glass vessel, two inches in length, evidently formed in a mould and impressed with two grotesque heads. The foot of this vessel (which is narrower towards the bottom) is broken off; but not recently, as the vessel appears to have filled with dirt. It may possibly have originally contained a liquid, as the mouth is hermetically sealed by another piece of glass, which is also broken near the aperture, so that its form cannot be known.
VII. Observations on several Monumental Stones in the North of Scotland. By James Logan, Esq. F.S.A. Edin.
Authors: Logan James
Published: June 2012

Some years since, I submitted to the inspection of the Society of Antiquaries, Drawings of fourteen stone Pillars or Obelisks in Aberdeenshire, all bearing curious figures in rude sculpture; at the same time the Society did me the honour to read a few remarks and conjectures which I ventured to annex, with a view to throw some light on the meaning and era of such relics. Since then, I have, through the Baron de Penhouet, who has distinguished himself by deep research in Druidical mythology, forwarded copies of those which represent the most remarkable sculpture, and particularly of one bearing an inscription in a character hitherto, it is believed, unknown, to the Society of Antiquaries at Paris; from whom, it is to be hoped, these mysterious and symbolical vestigia will receive some elucidation.
XVI. Transcript of a Chronicle in the Harleian Library of MSS. No. 6217, entitled, “An Historical Relation of certain passages about the end of King Edward the Third, and of his Death:” communicated in a Letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. President, by Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S. Treasurer
Authors: Amyot Thomas
Published: June 2012

Conceiving that the pages of our Transactions cannot be better occupied than by the publication of such early and authentic manuscripts as may serve to throw light on obscure periods of our ancient History, I beg leave to lay before the Society a transcript which I have caused to be made from the Harleian Library of a Chronicle containing a very minute relation of some remarkable events in the two last years of Edward the Third, which, as our Vice President, Mr. Hallam, has observed in his History of the Middle Ages, have been slurred over by most of our general historians.
XXIII. Upon the Office of Ragler, formerly existing in the County of Cardigan, in South Wales. By Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, in a Letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. President
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

In the absence of any other Communication, I trouble your Lordship and the Society with the transcript of a document, from among the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum, of curious import in its way. It is a Petition or Representation, indorsed in Lord Burghley's hand with these words, “Contra Wm Herle: the Raglarshippe: A. D. 1577.”
A NEW SPECIES OF BEGONIA (BEGONIACEAE) FROM PENINSULAR THAILAND
Authors: Phutthai T. , Hughes M. , Sridith K.
Published: June 2012

A new species from Thailand, Begonia bella Phutthai (Begoniaceae), is described and illustrated. It belongs in Begonia sect. Parvibegonia and is a narrow endemic in Phangnga province. Its IUCN category is considered to be ‘Vulnerable’.
Evolution of Precambrian life in the Brazilian geological record
Authors: Fairchild Thomas Rich , Sanchez Evelyn A.M. , Pacheco Mírian Liza A.F. , de Moraes Leme Juliana
Published: June 2012

Precambrian rocks comprise nearly one-quarter of the surface of Brazil and range from Paleoarchean (ca. 3.6 Ga) to the latest Ediacaran (0.542 Ga) in age. Except for controversial phosphatized ‘embryo-like’ microfossils like those from the lower Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, China and complex rangeomorphs, Brazilian research has revealed all major categories of Precambrian life forms described elsewhere – microbialites, biomarkers, silicified microfossils, palynomorphs, vase-shaped microfossils, macroalgae, metazoans, vendobionts and ichnofossils – but the paleobiological significance of this record has been little explored. At least four occurrences of these fossils offer promise for increased understanding of the following aspects of Precambrian biospheric evolution: (i) the relationship of microbialites in 2.1–2.4 Ga old carbonates of the Minas Supergroup in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais (the oldest Brazilian fossils) to the development of the early oxygenic atmosphere and penecontemporaneous global tectonic and climatic events; (ii) the evolutionary and biostratigraphic significance of Mesoproterozoic to Ediacaran organic-walled microfossils in central–western Brazil; (iii) diversity and paleoecological significance of vase-shaped heterotrophic protistan microfossils in the Urucum Formation (Jacadigo Group) and possibly the Bocaina Formation (Corumbá Group), of Mato Grosso do Sul; and (iv) insights into the record of skeletogenesis and paleoecology of latest Ediacaran metazoans as represented by the abundant organic carapaces ofCorumbellaand calcareous shells of the index fossilCloudina, of the Corumbá Group, Mato Grosso do Sul. Analysis of the Brazilian Precambrian fossil record thus holds great potential for augmenting paleobiological knowledge of this crucial period on Earth and for developing more robust hypotheses regarding possible origins and evolutionary pathways of biospheres on other planets.
Aerosol effect on droplet spectral dispersion in warm continental cumuli
Authors: Pandithurai G. , Dipu S. , Prabha Thara V. , Maheskumar R. S. , Kulkarni J. R. , Goswami B. N.
Published: June 2012

In situ aircraft measurements of cloud microphysical properties and aerosol during the 1st phase of the Cloud Aerosol Interaction and Precipitation Enhancement EXperiment (CAIPEEX‐I) over the Indian sub‐continent provided initial opportunities to investigate the dispersion effect and its implications for estimating aerosol indirect effects in continental cumuli. In contrast to earlier studies on continental shallow cumuli, it is found that not only the cloud droplet number concentration but also the relative dispersion increases with the aerosol number concentration in continental cumuli. The first aerosol indirect effect estimated from the relative changes in droplet concentration and effective radius with aerosol number concentration are 0.13 and 0.07, respectively. In‐depth analysis reveals that the dispersion effect could offset the cooling by enhanced droplet concentration by 39% in these continental cumuli. Adiabaticity analysis revealed aerosol indirect effect is lesser in subadiabatic clouds possibly due to inhomogeneous mixing processes. This study shows that adequate representation of the dispersion effect would help in accurately estimating the cloud albedo effect for continental cumuli and can reduce uncertainty in aerosol indirect effect estimates.