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XXXVIII. Mr. Lethieullier's Oservations on Sepulchral Monuments in a Letter to James West, Esq
Authors: Lethieullier
Published: July 2016

Having many leisure hours during my summer's residence in Gloucestershire, I employed some of them in enquiry after what matters of antiquity the country round me afforded. Among other searches, I visited many of the neighbouring parish churches, and was concerned to find in them numbers of ancient monuments quite buried in oblivion, and the intent for which they were first erected intirely frustrated. I frequently reflected that monuments were designed either to shew the gratitude of surviving friends, or to perpetuate the memory of such as had been eminent or serviceable to their country; ends in themselves laudable, and proper excitements to others to tread in the same steps: but in vain, where the tradition of the tomb is lost almost as soon as its owner's name becomes extinct; and, no inscription remaining, we behold only a dumb and useless piece of stone or marble. Well indeed might Horace boast, exegi monunentum aere perennius; since it is evident, his own immortal writings have already lasted beyond any monument of brass or marble which could have been erected for him.
XLI. Druidical Remains in or near the Parish of Halifax in Yorkshire, discovered and explained by the Rev. John Watson, M. A. F. S. A and Rector of Stockport in Cheshire
Authors: Watson John
Published: July 2016

The first druidical remain which I shall mention, is called the Rocking-Stone, and two different views thereof are exhibited at No 1 and 2 of the etched plate attending these remarks. It is situated so as to be a boundary mark between the two townships, Golcar and Slaighthwait in the parish of Huddresfield, on what is called Golcar-Hill, and gives the name of Hole-Stone Moor to the adjoining grounds. The size of it is about ten feet and half long, nine feet four or five inches broad, and five feet three inches thick. It rests on so small a center, that at one particular point, a man may cause it to rock, though it has been damaged a little in this respect by some masons, who endeavoured to discover the principle on which so large a weight was made to move.
VIII. Some Account of two Musical Instruments used in Wales. By the Hon. Daines Barrington
Authors: Barrington Daines
Published: July 2016

The first mention which I have happened to meet with of the old Welsh instrument sent herewith is in Leland's Collectanea (where, amongst some Latin words for which he gives the Saxon appellations) Liticen is rendered cruth. This agrees almost in so many letters with the Welsh instrument called a crwth, by which name it is still known in some parts of North Wales.
IX. On the Antiquity of Horse Shoes. A Letter to the Rev. Jeremiah Milles, D. D. Dean of Exeter, and President of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Authors: Rogers Charles
Published: July 2016

Joachim Camerarius, in his Treatise “De curandis equis, which he published in 1556, boldly asserts, that “the ancients “were not accustomed to shoe their horses.” And Guido Pancirolus, in his “Nova reperta,” observes, that “some are of “this opinion, because such shoes are not seen in their equestrian “statues; the reason of which was not known to him.”
XVI. Observations in a Tour through South Wales, Shropshire, &c. By Owen Salusbury Brereton, Esq.
Authors: Brereton Owen Salusbury
Published: July 2016

Meeting with some few matters of Antiquity, in a journey last summer from Stockton in Shropshire through South Wales, I think it my duty to offer them, such as they are, to the Society.

Bridgenorth, the ancient Brugge, was built in the tenth century, by Ethelfleda, widow of Ethelred, earl of Mercia. The castle has been very strong, not only by its walls and baslions, but also by its situation on a rock, very steep on three sides, over the river Severn.
XXV. Observations on the Inscriptions upon three ancient Marbles, said to have been brought from Smyrna, and now in the British Museum. In a Letter from Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq; to Matthew Duane, Esq. Communicated by Mr. Duane
Authors: Tyrwhitt Thomas
Published: July 2016

The first of these inscriptions, which is as follows,

has been published by Montfaucon, Suppl. T.v. p. 25, and is thus translated by him: Populus Isiadem Metrodori filiam Laodicenam hoc monumento donavit. He supposes, that the words Ο ΔΗΜΟΣ, encircled by a crown of laurel, signify that the monument was erected at the public expence; but they probably mean no more than that the deceased had, upon some occasion or other, had a crown voted to her by the people. They certainly mean no more upon the following monument, where the inscription testifies that the monument was erected at the expence of the family, and not of the public.
XXXIV. A Letter from Mr. Pegge to Dr. Percy, on the Minstrels among the ancient Saxons, occasioned by some Observations on the Subject, printed in the second Volume
Authors: Pegge
Published: July 2016

I perceive, that in the second volume of the Archaeologia are printed my observations on your account of the minstrels among the Saxons, the Council not being aware that they had been replied to in the second edition of your essay. But candour and a love of truth oblige me to acknowledge, that you have removed my doubts in a very satisfactory manner, by that larger and more full discussion of the subject which you have been pleased to give us in your last edition.
III. An Account of some Antiquities found in Ireland; communicated by the Right Rev. Richard Pococke, late Lord Bishop of Meath
Authors: Pococke Richard
Published: July 2016

In March, 1748, while some ploughmen were tilling lands upon Carne, the estate of Keedah Geoghagen, esq; about seven miles west of Mullingar, in the county of Westmeath, the plough, cutting through a sandy hillock which lay in the middle of the field, turned up a flag stone, about four feet long and three broad. Underneath they discovered a grave, or rather ossuary, to which this stone had served as a cover. The bottom, sides, and ends of the grave were composed each of a single slab. Within were deposited the bones of a human body, but of a size greatly above the common proportion of men.
X. Observations on the Aestel. By the Reverend Dr. Milles, in a Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, President
Authors: Milles
Published: July 2016

In a paper lately communicated by your Lordship to the Society, from Mr. Pegge, that learned gentleman has animadverted very properly on the mistakes which Mr. Lisle, and after him Mr. Hearne, have been guilty of in translating a passage of king Alfred's preface to Gregory's pastoral; for they represent him as sending a copy of his book to each of his cathedral churches, together with certain mancusses or marks of gold the fairest of his coin. But the passage is thus rendered in Spelman's life of that king, “Ad unamquamque episcopi sedem in regno unum (sc. librum) “misi, superque singulos libros stylum qui est quinquaginta man-“cussae.”
XVIII. Observations on Stone Hatchets. By Bishop Lyttelton
Authors: Lyttelton
Published: July 2016

The stone I have now the honour of laying before you for your inspection, was found some years ago on ploughing some new inclosed pasture ground, near Spurnston, in the parish of St. Cuthbert, Carlisle, in a little hillock, or raised piece of ground, about four yards one way, and three the other, a little above a foot in height, consisting entirely of earth.
XXVI. An Account of a Roman Sepulchre, found near York, in 1768. By John Burton, M.D.
Authors: Burton John
Published: July 2016

In the winter, A.D. 1768, some workmen digging in a piece of ground adjoining to the foot-road from York to Holdgate, lying between that city and Severus's Hills, about 250 yards from the walls, north of the present road to Burrowbridge and Aldburgh, near Severus's Hill, at about two feet depth found they had broke into an hollow place; and hoping to find a sum of money hidden therein, they soon searched it, and found some urns with ashes and earth.
XXIX. Conjectures on an antient Tomb in Salisbury Cathedral. By Mr. Gough
Authors: Gough
Published: July 2016

On the south side of the nave of Salisbury cathedral, under the fourth arch from the west, lies a monument of blue speckled marble, with the figure of a bishop in pontificalibus, his right hand lifted up to give the blessing, his left hand holding the crosier. On the perpendicular sides or edge all round is cut an inscription in large capitals; and on the front of the robe, another in letters somewhat similar. The slab lay to deeply bedded in the stone foundation on which the pillars of the nave rest, that the first of these inscriptions had entirely escaped the notice of the curious, or if any had noticed it, the lower half of the letters being out of sight, rendered it unintelligible. Last summer I procured it to be raised, and the pavement disposed round it in such a manner, that it can henceforth receive no injury, but will remain the second oldest monument in that church, if the conjectures I have formed upon it are founded in truth.
XXXI. Some Remarks on Mr. Walpole's Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third, by Robert Masters, B. D. and Rector of Landbeach, in Cambridgeshire
Authors: Masters Robert
Published: July 2016

When Mr. Walpole's Historic Doubts were first published, I sat down with great eagerness to peruse what could be offered by an author of his acuteness upon to interesting an article in our English History. After examining the authors referred to as I went along, I made the following remarks, more for my own satisfaction, than with design of communicating them to the public; but as Dean Milles's ingenious Observations on the same subject have been read before the Society, and deservedly obtained a place amongst their Miscellaneous Traces lately published, I take the liberty of laying these before them, with great deference to their judgement, as a supplement thereto, he having chosen to confine himself chiefly to the Wardrobe Account, which he has handled in so masterly a manner, as, in my opinion, entirely to overset all the arguments built upon it.
XXXIX. A View of the ancient Constitution of the English Parliament. By Francis Maseres, Esquire, of the Inner Temple
Authors: Maseres Francis
Published: July 2016

King William the Conqueror reserved in his own hands, or in those or his farmers, or tenants at will, or for short terms of years, a great part of the lands of England; the same, as it is said, that was in the hands of his predecessor Edward the Confessor, for the support of his royal dignity, and the ordinary expences of government. The rest of the lands of England he granted away to his Norman and French companions in very large quantities, dispossessing, for the most part, the former Englsh possessors of them.
XL. Observations on Mr. Maseres's View of the ancient Constitution of the English Parliament, by Charles Mellish, Esquire. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries
Authors: Mellish Charles
Published: July 2016

I have read with attention Mr. Maseres's View of the ancient Constitution of the English Parliament; and have received great information from many ingenious remarks there made on a subject, confessedly obscure and intricate.
VII. Observations on a Piece of Antiquity found at Selborne in Hampshire, on the estate of Mr. John White, late of Fleet Street, by Francis Douce, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Douce Francis
Published: July 2016

I have the honour of exhibiting a piece of antiquity lately found at Selborne in Hampshire (Pl. XI. fig. 1), on the estate of Mr. John White, late of Fleet Street, and which I possess by the favour of its worthy and respectable owner.
XI. A List of Ancient Words at present used in the mountainous District of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Communicated by Robert Willan, M.D. F.R.S. and S.A.
Authors: Willan Robert
Published: July 2016

The following list of ancient Words, commonly used by the inhabitants of a northern district of England, is offered to the Society as an object not devoid of interest. In presenting it, I may hope other Members will be excited to form collections of terms employed among the peasantry in different counties. Such a plan, it must be evident, would greatly contribute to elucidate both History and Philology. Those who make a research in other parts of the island will probably find a rich harvest, when compared with my gleanings near the rugged hills of Westmoreland, and in the adjoining border of Yorkshire.
XIII. Communication of an inedited Fragment of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, in a Letter from the Rev. J.J. Conybeare, M.A. Anglo Saxon Professor in the University of Oxford, to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A.
Authors: Conybeare J.J.
Published: July 2016

If the inedited fragment of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, which accompanies this letter, appear to you worthy of being submitted to the Society of Antiquaries it is entirely at your disposal.

It occurs towards the conclusion of a Manuscript Volume of Homilies contained in the Bodleian Library, and supposed by Wanley (who notices it in his catalogue affixed to Hicke's Thesaurus, page 15.) to have been written about the time of King Henry the second.
XIV. An Account of a Bronze Figure found at Richborough, in Kent, representing a Roman Soldier playing on the Bagpipes, in a Letter from the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and S.A. to Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Bart, P.S.A. &c. &c.
Authors: Weston Stephen
Published: July 2016

In digging up the foundations of the Prætorian camp at Richborough, was found a small Bronze Figure of a Roman Soldier playing on a pair of Bagpipes, which Mr. King, in his Munimenta Antiqua, Vol. II. p. 22, Pl. XX. tells us was presented to him by Mr. Boys, and that he has given three views of it, as an instrument of music borrowed by the Scots from the Romans, in the manner they did the plaid, and the mode of wearing it, from the toga.
XVII. Account of an Anglo-Saxon Paraphrase of the Phœnix attributed to Lactantius, contained in the Exeter Manuscript, in a third Letter from the Rev. J.J. Conybeare, M.A. to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A.
Authors: Conybeare J.J.
Published: July 2016

One of the Anglo-Saxon poems contained in the Exeter MS. is remarkable as being a translation or rather Paraphrase of a Latin Original still in existence; the “Phœnix” (attributed by some to Lactantius, and printed at the end of the Variorum Edition of Claudian) commencing

Est locus in primo felix Oriente remotus.
XXI. Copy of an Indenture of Retainer, relating to the Expedition against France in the 19thyear of King Henry VI. With a Letter from the King to the Bishop of Bath his Chancellor. Communicated by Samuel Lysons, Esq. V.P. F.R.S. Keeper of the Records in the Tower, in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

Enclosed is the Copy of an Indenture of Retainer preserved in this Office, whereby Sir James Ormond Kt retains Mr. James Skidmore, a Herefordshire Gentleman, to serve under him in the Expedition against France under Richard Duke of York in the 19th year of King Henry the sixth:

And of a Letter from King Henry VI. to the Bishop of Bath his Chancellor, on the subject of the same Expedition, which you will be so good as to lay before the Society of Antiquaries the first convenient opportunity.
XXIV. Transcript of an original Letter from King Edward the Fourth, when Earl of March, and his brother the Earl of Rutland, to their father, Richard Duke of York, preserved among the Cotton Manuscripts in the British Museum. Communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary. Its chief singularity is the use of the word natural as implying a legitimate Son
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: July 2016

Ryght hyegh and ryght myghty Prince, Oure ful redouted and ryght noble Lord and fadur, as lowely with all oure herts as we your trewe and naturall sonnes can or may, we recomaunde us vnto youre noble grace, humbly besechyng your nobley and worthy fadurhode daily to geve us your hertely blessyng, thrughe whiche we trust muche the rather to encrees, and growe to vertu and to spede the bettur in all matiers and things that we shall use, occupie, and exc'cise.
XXXII. Three Letters from the Cotton Manuscript Vespasian F. XIII. communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, in a Letter to Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Vice President
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: July 2016

The Cotton Manuscript from which the joint Letter of the Earls of March and Rutland, to their father Richard Duke of York, was transcribed, contains numerous Letters at least of equal, if not superior importance.
XXXIII. Description of the Reading Desk of the Abbey Church of Evesham, in Worcestershire, by Edward Rudge, Esq. F.R.S. S.A. and L.S. in a Letter addressed to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Rudge Edward
Published: July 2016

The drawings (Pl. XXIII. XXIV.) which accompany this, and which I request of you to present to the Society of Antiquaries, exhibit a correct representation of the Reading Desk belonging to, and which formerly stood in, the Abbey Church of Evesham.
V. An Account of the Greek Inscription on Pompey's Pillar, by Capt. W.M. Leake and Lieut. John Squire, in a Letter to Matthew Raine, D.D. F.A.S. and communicated by him in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Leake W.M. , Squire John
Published: July 2016

Will you be kind enough to lay before the Society the papers which accompany this note? The discovery seems to me to be of considerable importance, and the learned world must lament that young men so zealous in the cause of antient literature should have had the misfortune to lose by shipwreck many treasures collected in various parts of Greece.
XV. Extracts from a MS. Book of Accounts, entitled “Le Livre des Acconts pour Chevalier Jean Francklyn en son Maison au Wilsden;” [a] belonging to Sir John Chardin Musgrave, Bart. F.A.S. and by him communicated to the Society
Authors: Musgrave John Chardin
Published: July 2016

[a] Some particulars of the character of this worthy baronet may be learned from the following inscription on his monument in Wilsden church.

“Here lyeth this body of Sir John Francklyn, late of Wilsden in the countie of Middlesex, knt. who had to wife Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of George Purefoy, of Wadley in the county of Berks, Esq. It was her happiness to make him the joyful father of ten sons and seven daughters, and it is her pietie to dedicate this monument to the preservation of his memory. He died in the 48th yeare of his age, March the 24th, 1647.
XIX. An Inquiry respecting the Site of Kenwith or Kenwic Castle, in Devonshire. By Robert Studley Vidal, Esq. In a Letter to Henry Wansey, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Vidal Robert Studley
Published: July 2016

I am induced by the suggestion contained in your very obliging letter to send you what particulars I have been able to collect respecting the site of Kenwith or Kenwic Castle; a fortress, the history of which I should suppose can never prove uninteresting to Englishmen, since it is intimately connected with one of the most brilliant exploits that adorn the pages of our annals. To establish its claim to the particular attention of every lover of antiquity, I need only mention that by the fortunate sally of an intrepid band of Anglo-Saxons from Kenwith Castle, to which the Danes had lain siege towards the close of the ninth century, the main western army of these ferocious invaders was routed, 1200 of them, including their principal leader, killed, their consecrated standard taken, and the gloomy aspect of affairs so entirely changed, that our immortal Alfred was enabled to leave his hiding place, and again to assume the command of his armies and the government of his people.
XXIV. An Inventory and Appraisement of the Plate in the Lower Jewel House of the Tower, Anno 1649. Communicated by the Rev. John Brand, Secretary, from the original MS. in his Possession
Authors: Brand John
Published: July 2016

“A true Inventorie and Appraisement of all the Plate now being in the Lower Jewell House of the Tower in the Custodie of Mr.Carew Mildmay,made and taken13Aug.1649.”
XXXIII. Further Account of Tumuli opened in Wiltshire, in a Letter from Mr. William Cunnington, F.A.S. to Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. F.R.S. F.A.S. and F.L.S. Communicated by Mr. Lambert
Authors: Cunnington William
Published: July 2016

As you were pleased to intrust me with the whole direction of opening thetumuliin your manors of Corton, Boyton, and Sherrington, this week, I shall give you the particulars of the discoveries as they occurred to me.
XXXIX. Remarks on the Seal of the Bailiffs of the Liberty of Bridgnorth. By Francis Townsend, Esq. Windsor Herald, F.A.S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Townsend Francis
Published: July 2016

The seal produced to this Society sometime ago, by our worthy member Mr. Leathes, is that of the liberty of Bridgnorth, and differs from the common seal of the borough itself, as may be seen by the enclosed copy of an entry made by the heralds at their visitation of the county of Salop, in 1623. (Pl. XXVI.) This entry however, is not so full and descriptive as entries of that kind generally were, as it does not describe the form of government of the borough, or the connection between that and the liberty.
IV. Account of a Greek Coin of Lybia, in a Letter from Samuel Barnardiston Howes, Esq. F.A.S. to Craven Orde, Esq. F.R.S. V.P.
Authors: Howes Samuel Barnardiston
Published: July 2016

Considering it the duty of every member of this Society to communicate any information in his power, which may tend to elucidate a point in ancient history, or any subject intimately connected therewith; I take the liberty of laying before the Society a Greek brass coin, which has been in my possession several years, together with some observations on it.
VII. A Survey of the Priory of St. Helen's in London, taken in the Twenty-third Year of King Henry the Eighth; communicated by J.P. Malcolm, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Malcolm J. P.
Published: July 2016

The View and Surveye ther taken the xxj. daye of June in the xxxiij yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Kinge Henrye the viijth. by Thomas Mildmay one of the Kings Auditors thereunto assigned.
VIII. Copy of a Roll of the Expenses of King Edward the First at Rhuddlan Castle, in Wales, in the tenth and eleventh years of his reign, remaining among the Records in the Tower; communicated by Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director: with a Translation, by the Rev. John Brand, M.A. Secretary
Authors: Lysons Samuel , Brand John
Published: July 2016

It was in 1281, in the tenth year of the reign of King Edward the First, that Lewellin, prince of Wales, endeavoured to throw off the English yoke; and commenced a revolt by seizing the castle of Hawarden, in Flintshire; and laying siege to the castles of Flint and Rhuddlan. On the 6th of April, the king being then at Devizes, summoned his barons, and other military tenants, to attend him at Worcester on Whitsunday following, in order to proceed against the Welsh; and afterwards, by a second summons, dated from Hartlebury, near Worcester, called upon them in greater numbers to attend him, properly equipped, at Rothelan, on Sunday, on the morrow of the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula.† Rhuddlan, or as it is called in the records, Rothelan Castle, appears to have been the head quarters of the king during this expedition; and most of his orders, entered on the Rotuli Walliœ, of the tenth and elventh years of his reign, are dated thence. This roll of expences, which was discovered in 1805, among the unsorted records in the White Tower, consists of four membranes, containing the particulars of the sums paid to the carpenters, masons, smiths, and other workmen employed at the Castle, which no doubt had great additions made to it on this occasion. The wages also of archers and sailors, and of mowers and haymakers, are here detailed under separate heads; besides a great variety of articles under the head of necessaries.
XXIII. An Account of an inedited Coin of Alexander the Great. In a Letter to the Marquess Townshend, President, by the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R. and A.S.
Authors: Weston Stephen
Published: July 2016

The Coin I have the honour to exhibit to your Lordship, and the Society, has never yet been published; and, from its extreme rarity, well deserves to be shown, as I have good reason to think it does not exist in any cabinet, in this country, except my Lord Northwick's.
XXXI. Description of a very rare Samaritan Coin, struck at Azoth Segol. In a Letter to the President, by the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S.
Authors: Weston Stephen
Published: July 2016

I have the honour to exhibit to your Lordship and the Society, a very rare unpublished Samaritan Coin, struck at Azoth Segol, by order of Antigonus, King of Judæa, on his advancement to the crown by the aid of the Parthians, whom he bribed with a thousand gold talents, and five hundred female slaves. Hyrcanus the Second had been some time Prince and High Priest of the Jewish nation; but during the unsettled state of the Roman empire, after the death of Julius Cæsar, Antigonus, son of Aristobulus, brother of Hyrcanus, made himself master of Jerusalem and all Judæa; and having thrown Hyrcanus into prison, gave him up to the Parthians. Herod, upon this, fled to Rome; and having engaged Marc Antony in this favour, was sent back to Judæa with the title of King, and in three years got possession of the whole country, took Antigonus prisoner, and sent him to his patron Antony, who ordered his head to be cut off; and he was accordingly decapitated, and became the first martyr of a Monarch to the Roman axe. See Josephus, p. 741, vol. i. ed. Hudson, and Havercamp.—Having said thus much of the history, I proceed to speak of the Coin.
XLII. A Description of Antiquities discovered on Hagbourn-Hill.In a Letter from Ebenezer King, Esq., F.A.S. to Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S., late Director
Authors: King Ebenezer
Published: July 2016

I should be much obliged by your submitting the several articles that accompany this letter to the inspection of the Society of Antiquaries, if you think them deserving of attention: and I much wish it were in my power to furnish any better account of them, than that of mere description, and the mode and place of their discovery.
XLIII. A Description of an ancient Pitcher, discovered in the parish of Lismahago. By the Rev. — Dow. Communicated by Robert Blair, D. D. Rector of Barton St. Andrew
Authors: Dow
Published: July 2016

The antient Pitcher, of which the drawing hereunto annexed is a most correct picture and representation, was found about a twelve-month ago in a very wild and uncultivated part of the county of Lanark, and parish of Lesmahago.

The particular spot where it was taken up is in a farm called Sadlerhead, about half-way between the parish church and Douglas Miln Inn, and only a mile distant in a S. W. direction from the post road.
XXII. Observations on the Indian method of Picture-Writing by William Bray, Esq. In a Letter to the Secretary
Authors: Bray William
Published: July 2016

In a memoir lately communicated to the Society by governor Pownall on the origin and nature of picture and elementary writing he observes that he has heard of painting on trees by the Indians in North America, but that he never saw any of them.

Recollecting that a gentleman of my acquaintance had shewed me in his journal a copy of an historical painting in figures which he had taken from a tree in North America, I wrote to him, and have been favored with the annexed sketch and interpretation of it.
XXVI. Some observations on Doctor Bernard's cubic contents of the Roman Amphora. By Henry Norris, Esq.
Authors: Norris Henry
Published: July 2016

He states the amphora to be a quadrantall or cube of a Roman foot, which he makes equal to 970 thousand parts of the English foot, that is, 11,64 inches English; and gives the amphora to be in cubical contents, 1728 Roman cubic inches, and in English measure to be 1577,098 English cubic inches.
XXIX. Observations on Rochester Castle, by the Rev. Mr. Samuel Denne. In a Letter to Mr. Gough
Authors: Denne Samuel
Published: July 2016

Mr King, in his many ingenious and pertinent Observations on Ancient Castles, (published in the Archaeologia, vol. VI. art. XXVII.) for the purpose of explaining the conclusions he has drawn from them, has given a full description of Rochester castle, which he remarks was in great part re-edified, if not originally built by Gundulph bishop of that see, about 1088. The justice of this prelate's claim to have been the architect of this venerable fabric is examined in the following disquisition ; and, should the paper appear to you to be not unworthy of the attention of the society of which you are a member, by communicating it to that learned and respectable body, you will oblige
VI. Description of two antient mansion houses in Northamptonshire and Dorset. By Richard Gough
Authors: Gough Richard
Published: July 2016

The drawing herewith exhibited, taken by Mr. Schnebbelie in the course of last summer [a], represents a fragment of one of the oldest mansion bouses in this kingdom.
VIII. Account of the ancient Modes of Fortification in Scotland. By Robert Riddel, Esq. F.A.S. In a letter to Richard Gough, Esq. Director
Authors: Riddel Robert
Published: July 2016

I herewith send you a short account of the different modes of fortification which appear to have been in use in Scotland from the most early period to the accession of James VI. to the crown of England. If you think this worthy the acceptance of the Society of Antiquaries of London, please to present it to them with my best respects.
XV. An Account of some Roman Antiquities in Cumberland hitherto unnoticed. By Hayman Rooke, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Rooke Hayman
Published: July 2016

The county of Cumberland abounds with Roman antiquities, arid many curious altars and inscriptions have been found in it; which have been accurately described by Horsley, Stukeley, and others. These antiquities have been discovered by chance, either in ploughing up ground for cultivation, or in digging up stones for the repair of houses and walls; and what is very surprising, I do not find that a regular search has ever been made in any of the noted stations.
XXII. Observations on a Roman Horologium, found in Italy. By Richard Gough, Director
Authors: Gough Richard
Published: July 2016

It cannot but be in the recollection of this learned Society, that an account of a Roman Horologium, the only one then supposed to be existing, was given in a Letter from the late Beaupré Bell, Esq. to the late Roger Gale, Esq. and published in the Archæologia, Vol. VI. p. 133. It appears to have been a solar dial fixed at some station near Taloire or Annecy, protected by a building, and that building guarded by a fence or palisade, and attended by an officer, or servant, to give notice of the hours. Mr. Gale has collected, and this inscription furnishes, many curious particulars respecting this instrument for measuring time; compared to which the simplest and rudest modern clock, or even the first contrived clock, would be a wonderful machine.
XXVII. Observations on a Charter of King Eadgar; by Thomas Astle, Esq. F.A.S. in a Letter to Robert Austen, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Astle Thomas
Published: July 2016

Pursuant to your request, I give you my opinion on the authenticity of your Charter of king Edgar, which you supposed to have had a seal.
XVII. Evidence of a Lavatory, appertaining to the Benedictine Priory of Canterbury Cathedral; and Observations on Fonts. By the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.S.A. In a Letter to Richard Gough, Esq. Direcior
Authors: Denne Samuel
Published: July 2016

In your copious description and illustration of fonts, inserted in the tenth volume of Archaeologia, N° XXIV. at note t, p. 201, you have suggested, that Mr. Gostling seems to have given up his conjecture that the dome on the North side of Canterbury cathedral, and placed opposite to the entrance into the East cross aile, was a baptistery; and that I think the edifice was a lavatory. Concerning both these points it is my intention to trouble you with some observations, and to add miscellaneous remarks on fonts in this country, which you will be pleased to transmit to our brethren in Somerset Place, should you deem the paper worthy of their attention.
XX. Communicated by T. W. Wrighte, M. A. Secretary. From the Papers bequeathed to the Society of Antiquaries of London. By the late John Thorpe, Esq. M. A. and F. S. A.
Authors: Thorpe John
Published: July 2016

This “briefe discourse” addressed to her most excellent majesty queen Elizabeth, was written, probably about the year 1582, by that most excellent mathematician of his time, and skilful engineer, “Thomas Digges, Esquire, sonne and “ heyre of Leonard Digges, of Wotton, in the county of Kent, Esquire, and of “ Bridget his wife, daughter to Thomas Wilford, Esquire, which Thomas deceased the 24th day of August, Ann. Dom. 1595,” Stowe's Survey of London, ed. 1720, B. iii. vol. I. p. 71, 72. For a more particular account of the life of this eminent person, see Wood's Athen, and the Biograph. Britannica.
III. Observations by the Rev. Mr. Pegge on the Stanton-Moor Urns, and Druidical Temple. In a Letter to Major Rooke
Authors: Pegge
Published: July 2016

After returning you my best thanks for the favour of your letter of Nov. 27., 1784, wherein you are so obliging as to impart to me an account of your late and further discoveries of antiquities on Stanton-Moor in the county of Derby, with drawings of the urns which you was then so fortunate as to find, I should be wanting in gratitude did I not communicate to you, in return, my sentiments upon them, in hope that they may prove acceptable to you.
VI. Miscellaneous Observations on Parish Registers. Addressed to the Honourable Daines Barrington. By John Bowle, F.S.A.
Authors: Bowle John
Published: July 2016

You do not want to be informed that the introduction of Parochial Registers was in consequence of the injunctions of Thomas Lord Cromwell. From whence he formed his resolution of bringing them into general use is not apparent; but their utility and advantage to posterity could not escape his sagacity and discernment. As he had lived abroad, and consequently had much intercourse with men of different countries, from these he might have formed his opinions, and at a fit season have carried them into execution. The known period when this was done makes the supposition no ways improbable; it being certain that in Spain it had been in use many years before. Very few years have elapsed since the place where, and time when, the famous Cervantes was born, and baptised, were known. Some Antiquaries of late among his countrymen have made it a point to investigate the matter with precision and indisputable certainty, by means of registers of churches still in being.
VIII. Dr. Glass's Letter to William Marsden, Esq. on the Affinity of certain Words in the Language of the Sandwich and Friendly Isles in the Pacific Ocean, with the Hebrew
Authors: Glass
Published: July 2016

You know my opinion as to the originality of the Hebrew language: to this you must attribute the trouble I am now giving you.

If there was a time when all the inhabitants of the world spoke Hebrew, then we are justified in our attempts at tracing to that primary source any word in any language spoken on the habitable globe: and an argument connected with these data, though it may not carry conviction with it, will not, I hope, be considered, primâ facie, as absurd and impossible.
XVII. Observations on the Antiquity of Card-playing in England by the Hon. Daines Barrington. Inscribed to the Rev. Mr. Bowle
Authors: Barrington Daines
Published: July 2016

Since the last paper which I had the honour to lay before the Society, giving some account of a picture representing lord Burleigh with three others playing at cards, I have found some confirmation that those exhibited in the hand of one of these players, relate to Primero, because the Sydney Papers mention that queen Elizabeth formed a party at this game with the Lord Treasurer, Mr. Secretary, and the Lord North.
XXXIV. Description of the Druid Temple lately discovered on the top of the Hill near St. Hillary in Jersey. Communicated by Mr. Molseworth
Authors: Molseworth
Published: July 2016

It is sixty-six feet in circumference, composed of forty-five large stones, measuring seven feet in height, six in breadth, four in thickness, containing four perfect lodges [or cells] and one destroyed. The supposed entrance in it may be called a subterraneous passage, faces the East and measures fifteen feet in length, four feet two inches and a half in breadth from the inside of the two outward pillars or stones, in height two feet, each pillar being one foot nine inches and a half thick.
VIII. Mr. Bray on the Leicester Roman Miliary Stone. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary
Authors: Bray
Published: July 2016

If the following account of a Roman inscription which has been lately found, and which will determine Leicester to be the station called Ratæ, has not been already communicated to the Society, I will beg you to lay it before them.
XIV. Observations on the Dundalk Ship Temple. By Thomas Pownall, Esq. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary
Authors: Pownall Thomas
Published: July 2016

Inclosed I send to you for the inspection and amusement of the Society four drawings, viz. two views, a plan, and a section of the ruins of a very uncommon building, near Dundalk in Ireland. I had seen in Mr. Wright's Louthiana a neat plan of this building, he calls a ship-temple: he however says, that the name it goes by in the country, is

Fags na ain eighe, or

The one night's work.
XXI. Observations on a Crystal Vase in the possession of the Earl of Besborough. By Thomas Pownall, Esq.
Authors: Pownall Thomas
Published: July 2016

Introduction, giving an account of the antique cup, the subject of this paper.

§ 1. Of the nature and ceremony of the convivial libations.

§ 2. Of the Deities to whom these libations were made at the convivial table, the Trina Numina. An inquiry who these were.

The causes of the confusion in this point even amongst the early Roman antiquaries.

Inquiry into the particular idea annexed by the ancients to the word Numen, and of the word Genius.

Close of this section of the Trina Numina. That Mercury, according to the original ancient idea of this God and his Numen, always was one.

And the two Lares, under the same original idea, the other two of these Trina Numina.

The cup described: and by the ideas above suggested and premised.

An attempt to show that this cup was one of those three, which used to be set on the table after the eatables were removed, and used in this ceremony of the Convivial Libation.
XXVI. Some Account of the Burial-places of the antient Tartars. In a Letter to the Rev. John Glen King, D.D. By the Rev. William Tooke, F.R.S. Chaplain to the English Factory at St. Petersburg
Authors: Tooke William
Published: July 2016

In compliance with your request to communicate to you what I can find concerning the old sepulchres seen in the southern parts of Russia and in Siberia, I send you some reasons which render it probable that they are all the work of one and the same nation, however opposite a judgment those may pass who have bestowed on them only a cursory attention. Every thing that relates to the customs of the various societies mankind have formed is a proper subject of research to the inquisitive mind. The repositories of the dead have in all ages been objects of regard; at first as honourable testimonies of human sentiment and in aftertimes as a ground of investication into the manners and opinions of men.
XXX. A Letter from Governor Pownall to the Reverend Michael Lort, D.D. V.P.A.S. inclosing Mr. Ledwich's Letter on the Ship-Temples in Ireland
Authors: Pownall  , Ledwich
Published: July 2016

In the course of my researches after the nature, character, and manners of those ancient northern Pirates the Vics or gWicks, called by the British fVicts, by the Saxon Pheachs and gWights, by the Romans Victi and Victones, and by those of the latter Empire Picti; I was inquisitive to trace their metaphysical notions about the state and the supposed beings, of an existence in a metaphysical world, derobed of gross matter.
XXXV. Extract by the late Smart Lethieullier, Esq. from the Papers of the late Charles Boon, Esq. Governor of Bombay, giving an account of the great Pagoda on the Island of Salset
Authors: Lethieullier Smart
Published: July 2016

Salset is an island lying in the great Indian ocean, north of Goa, and separated from Bombay by a narrow channel. It is seventy miles in compass, twenty in length, and fifteen in breadth. The soil is fruitful, and the island intirely under the dominion of the Portuguese. It has in it several villages inhabited by Heathens, Moors and Christians. Within the island, and four miles from any house, and surrounded by thick woods abounding with lions, tigers, monkeys, and other wild and venomous animals, stand four very high hills contiguous to each other, and looking like one intire rock by the surface, which bears strong marks of calcination. On the sides of these hills are many pagodas, caverns, apartments, and other excavations cut out of the rock, called at this day the city of Canorin, from a village of that name adjoining.
XLII. Account of some Antiquities found in Gloucestershire. By the Rev. Mr. Mutlow; in a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Douglas, F.A.S.
Authors: Mutlow
Published: July 2016

I duly received your favour of the 23d of September, and have endeavoured all in my power to get satisfactory answers to your queries. In the first place I have to inform you that the coffin was found within about fifty yards of the Roman Way called Ermin-street, which went from St. David's in Wales to Southampton, and about eighteen miles from Cloucester crosses the Roman Foss-way: but notwithstanding this circumstance, I am of opinion that the coffin in question did not belong to a Roman, but to a Saxon, in support of which I have to say that in the heptarchy Gloucestershire being a part of the Mercian kingdom, the Roman Way went by a palace of the kings of Mercia, which was situate in a field adjoining to that in which the coffin, &c. was found (the foundation of which I have seen) and to this day is called the Kingsholm, and a few years since there were two stone coffins (there generally supposed Roman) found close to the Ermin street, one of which was about fix feet and a half in length, and nearly in the form of a cistern, and I believe upon consideration, you will be of opinion that the Romans never interred their dead in lead.
IV. An Account of a Stone Barrow, in the Parish of Wellow, at Stoney Littleton in the County of Somerset, which was opened and investigated in the Month of May 1816. Communicated by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. F.S.A.
Authors: Hoare Richard Colt
Published: July 2016

In my introduction to the Ancient History of South Wiltshire, I have endeavoured to investigate with accuracy and minuteness, the various barrows with which our chalk hills particularly abound. I have stated their forms, construction, and contents. Those which occur most frequently, may be divided into four classes. I. The long barrow. II. The bowl-shaped barrow. III. The bell-shaped barrow. IV. The Druid barrow. The two first, from the general simplicity of their structure, appear to be the most ancient; for in No 3 we find a great degree of symmetry in the design, which corresponds with the figure of a bell: and No 4 varies materially from all the preceding. I know not from what circumstances the learned Dr. Stukeley appropriated these low tumuli to the British order of Priests called Druids I am rather inclined to think, from the result of our own researches that they were destined to receive the bones and the ashes of the female tribe of Britons; for the articles generally found within them both with regard to size and quality, have been such as were more becoming to a lady than a priest. But the most inexplicable of all the barrows, and the most distinguished by its size and construction, is the Long Barrow, consisting of an immense long ridge of earth, pointing most frequently from East to West; and rising to a higher degree of elevation towards the former aspect. These are the barrows which the Northern Writers ‘describe as ship barrows—carinœ instar.
XII. Observations on a Roman Encampment near East Hempstead, in Berkshire. By John Narrien, Esq. of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. In a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Narrien John
Published: July 2016

The drawing, (Pl. VII.) is a correct plan of the Roman Encampment near East Hempstead in Berkshire as it now stands. Its situation, at one extremity of a large plateau, rendered it very fit for a permanent military station, as it must have been of difficult access on every side except that by which it is connected with the principal hill.
VII. Remarks on the Antiquity and the different Modes of Brick and Stone Buildings in England. By Mr. James Essex of Cambridge
Authors: Essex James
Published: July 2016

Though Britain contains within itself all the materials necessary for building, it is probable the ancient inhabitants lived in holes and caverns of rocks, or formed themselves huts, which they covered with turf supported by branches of trees bound together with twigs of ozier. In after-ages, when commerce brought the Phoenicians and other civilized nations acquainted with them, they learned from those strangers many useful arts. But their habitations, according to Caesar, were in his time little improved, their towns were only a confused parcel of huts, placed at a little distance from each other, without order or distinction of streets; they generally stood in the middle of a wood, the avenues whereof were defended with slight ramparts of earth, or with trees that had been felled to clear the ground.
XIII. Some Observations on Lincoln Cathedral. By Mr. James Essex
Authors: Essex James
Published: July 2016

If the principles of Gothic architecture are now but little known, the various styles of building, which come under the denomination of Gothic, are pretty well ascertained; and as the first, if well understood and properly applied, would be useful to modern professors of architecture; so the latter may be usefully applied by the lovers of antiquities, to illustrate or correct the different historical accounts which antient writers have left us of many elegant structures which once adorned this kingdom, some of which yet remain, to perpetuate the piety of their founders, and the magnificence of the ages in which they were built; and, notwithstanding the ravages of time, or the depredations of rebellion and fanatic rage, still convey to the curious inspector a just idea of the merits and abilities of that ingenious fraternity who have been long distinguished by the name of Free-Masons.
XVIII. An Account of the Events produced in England by the Grant of the Kingdom of Sicily to Prince Edmund, Second Son of King Henry the Third. With some Remarks upon the Seal of that Prince
Authors: Astle Thomas
Published: July 2016

Having purchased the curious Gold Seal of Prince Edmund, second son of King Henry the Third, as king of Sicily[a], in compliance with your request I have made some enquiry into the events produced in England by the grant of the kingdom of Sicily to that prince, and shall submit to you some remarks upon the Seal itself; which I desire you will be pleased to lay before the Society of Antiquaries.
XIX. Of the Wisdom of the Antient Egyptians; a Discourse concerning their Arts, their Sciences, and their Learning: their Laws, their Government, and their Religion. With occasional Reflections upon the State of Learning among the Jews; and some other Nations
Authors: Woodward
Published: July 2016

The progress made by the antient Egyptians in Arts and Sciences, beyond other nations their contemporaries, has been much insisted on by various writers, and by some chiefly with a view to depreciate the characters of Moses and the Israelites. But a very ingenious writer, the late Robert Wood, esq; in a posthumous work of his, lately published [a], has given his opinion, and some reasons for it, that “the high “compliments which have been so long paid to the knowledge “and wisdom of the antient Egyptians have not been so well “founded as is generally imagined.”