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XVII.—Recent discoveries of the apparatus used in playing the game of Κότταβος
Authors: Higgins Alfred
Published: January 2012

The game of Kottabos, to which the Greeks—more particularly the Athenians—were passionately attached during a period of at least a hundred years, and which is known to have been in vogue as early as the middle of the fifth century B.C., has been a puzzle to the learned, from the time of the ancient grammarians and scholiasts down to the present day.
XIX.—The Medieval Organs at Lübeck, and some other ancient organs
Authors: Hill Arthur G.
Published: January 2012

It is remarkable that in all the fifty volumes of Archaeologia, which contain the best essays on antiquarian subjects published during the last one hundred and forty years, I have been unable to discover any paper concerning organs, or their archaeological or musical characteristics, nor, indeed, any direct reference to the history of an instrument so intimately connected with the services of the Church.
XXIII.—Armorial devices on black-figured vases at Berlin
Authors: Ely Talfourd
Published: January 2012

Half-a-centuey ago, when the words “Bacchic” and “Mystic” played a very important part in the explanation of Grecian monuments, it was usual to consider the shield-devices seen on Greek vases as symbols specially appropriate to certain members of the Hellenic Pantheon. In those days Panofka never wearied of pointing out the opposition of the heavenly bodies to the Chthonian, or how the God of Light triumphed over the Lord of Darkness. His explanations, however, required a great deal of explaining, and the darkness eventually got the best of it, for these views are seldom mentioned now, save as illustrations of perverted ingenuity and misapplied erudition.
XIX.—The Crossbow of Ulrich V. Count of Wurtemburg, 1460, with remarks on its construction
Authors: de Cosson Baron
Published: January 2012

The crossbow which forms the subject of this paper may be, I venture to think, of interest to the Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries, as it is a weapon of somewhat uncommon construction, of good artistic decoration, and more especially because the date which is inscribed on it and the escutcheons of arms which it bears, enable me to assign its ownership very definitely to a historical personage.
II. Notes on the Life of Thomas Rainborowe, Officer in the Army and Navy in the service of the Parliament of England
Authors: Peacock Edward
Published: January 2012

The want of a really good biographical dictionary of Englishmen is, perhaps, more felt by those whose vocation it is to investigate the details of the great civil war of the seventeenth century than by students of any other class. The fame of three or four of the leading spirits of the time has eclipsed in the common memory almost all the other people who took an important part in the struggle between Charles the First and his Parliament. Such must be in a great degree the case whenever the dramatic interest of the story centres in the actions of one commanding intellect or the misfortunes and errors of a single sufferer; but there is, we believe, no other great crisis in modern history where the less known have been permitted to remain so entirely unknown as the time of which we speak.
III.—On the Process of Decay in Glass, and, incidentally, on the Composition and Texture of Glass at different periods, and the History of its Manufacture
Authors: Fowler James
Published: January 2012

Glass is, in many respects, one of the most remarkable substances in the world. No known substance combines such varied uses with such matchless beauties. For innumerable domestic purposes it has for centuries been considered a necessity of daily life. Without glass innumerable paths in science and the arts would never have been explored; and in these paths progress has been made in proportion as the methods of making glass have been improved. On the other hand the peculiar beauties inherent in or incident to this material are so great that at no period in history has man been able to grasp completely more than one of them at once. The Venetians realized above all others the marvellous capacity of glass for being wrought into all kinds of beautiful forms; our Gothic forefathers developed beyond all others its capabilities in respect of colour; the Phoenicians and Romans did wonders both in form and colour, but were nevertheless inferior to the Venetians in the former, and to our Gothic forefathers in the latter; we, in our day, excel in developing to the utmost (wonderful talent that it is!) the crystalline transparency and brilliancy of glass, but it is in this direction only that we have any true art or artists—in form and colour we do comparatively nothing. Thus, in each instance, the full realization of a period has been but as it were a passing glimpse—it has never been found possible to retain it, so as to carry it into the full realization of another period; even as the highest natural beauty is but for a moment—it increases until maturity, and then immediately begins to fade.
V.—Notice of a Monument at Pallanza, North Italy, dedicated to the Matronæ; with an attempt to investigate the Origin and Nature of the Cult of the Matronæ, as distinct from that of the Deæ Matres
Authors: Wylie William Michael
Published: January 2012

You have made the study of the Deæ Matres and the Matronæ so peculiarly your own, by the notices, in Collectanea Antiqua and Roman London, of the many memorials of these lesser Roman divinities which exist in Britain, Germany, and France, that, in venturing on the same subject, I feel almost like a trespasser. Yet we are all bound to contribute our respective gleanings to the general stock of information. Moreover, the Cisalpine examples of the cult of the Matronæ, which I now propose to consider, though perfectly analogous to those of other countries—the subjects of your studies—yet have their respective points of difference. These, though difficult to explain, should not pass unnoticed, and your labours have lightened my task.
XIV.—Edmund of Langley and his Tomb
Authors: Evans John
Published: January 2012

In the month of November, 1877, in consequence of an alteration in the internal arrangements of the chancel of King's Langley church, it was determined to remove the altar-tomb of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, from the position which it had held during the last three centuries in the chancel, to one in a new memorial chapel, constructed at the east end of the north aisle of the church.
XV.—Account of further Excavations at Silchester
Authors: Joyce James Gerald
Published: January 2012

On May 18, 1865, I had the pleasure of reading to this Society a paper upon certain excavations which have been carried on at Silchester by His Grace the Duke of Wellington. Since that date the area uncovered has been considerably extended, and the excavations have attracted a very general interest among those who are skilled in English archæology. In addressing you at present, I only resume the thread of a statement already commenced, and, in order to clear the ground for the information I propose now to bring under your notice, I shall go back to a few leading particulars which were then stated.
I.—The Rise and Growth of the Chapter of Wells from 1242 to 1333
Authors: Church C.M.
Published: January 2012

The history of the church of Wells under its bishops from 1174 to 1247, from manuscript documents in possession of the Dean and Chapter, has formed the subject of papers in former volumes of Archaeologia. I propose to draw from the same sources some notes on the history of the “chapter,” and of the rise of the buildings of the church, in the latter part of the thirteenth and early years of the fourteenth century. The history of the church of Wells has been marked hitherto by the names of individual bishops. In this next period the growth of the chapter as the governing body in the church is the distinguishing feature.
II.—Sword-stands in the churches of the City of London
Authors: Freshfield E.H.
Published: January 2012

Until quite recently it was customary for the Lord Mayor to go on Sundays in state to one or other of the City churches.

On these occasions the Lord Mayor was accompanied by the sheriffs and officials of the Corporation, and escorted by the mace-bearer and sword-bearer, the latter wearing the cap of maintenance, and carrying the state sword. It was usual for the alderman of the ward to be present with any other aldermen that pleased to come, and as many aldermen as came brought with them their ward beadles, carrying the ward maces.
VII.—On a Panel Painting of the Doom discovered in 1892, in Wenhaston church, Suffolk
Authors: Keyser Charles E.
Published: January 2012

The village of Wenhaston is situated in the north-eastern part of the county of Suffolk, between the towns of Halesworth and Southwold. The church, dedicated in honour of St. Peter, stands on high ground, commanding the valley of the Blyth, and about two miles from the grand old priory church of Blythburgh, to which it formerly belonged. Though not to be compared with many of the fine churches in the neighbourhood, yet Wenhaston church possesses various points of interest which may be briefly enumerated, as they may assist us in assigning a date to the panel painting of the Doom, which, by the kindness of the vicar, the Rev. J. B. Clare, is this evening exhibited.
X.—A Fifteenth Century Treatise on Gardening
Authors: Gardener John , Amherst Alicia M. Tyssen
Published: January 2012

We have few writings on the subject of English gardening before the sixteenth century, when Turner, Tusser, Hill, Fitzherbert, and Gerard gave their well-known works to the world, and were quickly followed by numerous other writers on the same subject.
XII.—Excavations on the site of the Roman city at Silchester, Hants, in 1893
Authors: Fox George E. , Hope W.H. St. John
Published: January 2012

The following report forms a record of the excavations on the site of the Roman city at Silchester during the past year (1893), and includes an account of various explorations made in the previous year, which, for certain reasons, have not yet been described.

The work began last May, and was carried on until the month of October, but under considerable disadvantages from the great heat of the summer and want of rain, which hardened the soil to a degree that much interfered with the detection of foundations and rubbish pits. In spite of this hindrance a considerable acreage was examined.
I.—On a probable Allusion to the Christians in a Passage of the Sixth Satire of Juvenal
Authors: Stanhope Earl
Published: January 2012

The lines in the sixth Satire of Juvenal to which I desire to call your attention begin at verse 541. The poet is inveighing against the superstitions which he ascribes to the Roman ladies.
IV.—Remarks on an Inscription on a Copper Dish found at Chertsey
Authors: Ralston William Ralston Shedden
Published: January 2012

The Thirtieth Volume of the Archæologia contains, at page 40, a letter by Mr. John M. Kemble on a so-called Runic inscription, “cut in basso-relievo upon the rim of a pure copper dish, which was dug up nearly a century and a half ago, on the site of the once celebrated monastery of St. Peter” at Chertsey. Mr. Kemble's reading of the inscription (here engraved of the actual size) is GÆTEOHURÆCKO, which he divides into the two words GÆTEOH and URÆCKO. As these words offer certain difficulties, as for instance-the o final, and “the archaic character of the u for w and CK for CC,” he suggests that the dish, which he thinks may date “in its present form from the eleventh or even the twelfth century,” is a copy of one, the first carving of which “may be referred to a period little short of the foundation of the monastery itself, in other words to the close of the seventh century.”
IX.—An Original Appointment of Sir John Fastolfe to be Keeper of the Bastille of St. Anthony at Paris in 1421
Authors: Nichols John Gough
Published: January 2012

I am permitted by Robert F. Dalrymple, Esq., to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries a remarkable and interesting document connected with the English occupation of Paris, at the time when King Henry the Fifth was recognised as the heir of his father-in-law Charles the Sixth.
XIII.—Further Facts in the History of the Early Discovery of Australia
Authors: Major Richard Henry
Published: January 2012

In the year 1861 I had the satisfaction of laying before the Society of Antiquaries, and thereby making known to the world for the first time, the important fact that the great continental island of Australia had been discovered in the year 1601 by a Portuguese navigator, named Manoel Godinho de Eredia. Up to that time the earliest authenticated discovery of any part of the great southern land was that made a little to the west and south of Cape York by the commander of the Dutch yacht the Duyfhen, or Dove, about the month of March 1606. Thus the fact which I announced in 1861 gave a date to the first authenticated discovery of Australia earlier by five years than that which had been previously accepted in history, and transferred the honour of that discovery from Holland to Portugal. The document on which this fact, so entirely new to the world, was based, was a MS. Mappe-monde in the British Museum, in which, on the northwest corner of a country which could be shown beyond all question to be Australia, stood a legend in Portuguese to the following effect:— “Nuça antara was discovered in the year 1601 by Manoel Godinho de Eredia, by command of the Viceroy Ayres de Saldanha.” This mappe-monde had the great disadvantage of being only a copy, possibly made even in the present century, from one the geography of which proved it to be some two centuries older. Still, the mere fact of its being a copy laid it open to a variety of possible objections, which fortunately I was able to forestall by arguments that I believe to be unanswerable, and which I think I need not repeat now, as they are already printed in the “Archaeologia,” vol. xxxviii. I will merely say that I had the good fortune at the time to find a happy confirmation of what was stated in the map in a little printed work which described the discoverer as a learned cosmographer and skilful captain, who had received a special commission from the Viceroy at Goa to make explorations for gold mines, and at the same time to verify the descriptions of the southern islands.
XX.—On the Origin of the Æra Dionysiana, or Æra Vulgaris, or Æra Christiana
Authors: Oppert Gustav
Published: January 2012

The question whether the so-called Æra Dionysiana, or Æra Vulgaris, begins in reality with the year of the birth of Christ, and if not, how many years before or after, has occupied for centuries many theologians, historians, and astronomers.
XXI.—On some Antique Gold and other Finger Rings found at Palestrina
Authors: Fortnum C. Drury E.
Published: January 2012

Shortly before the close of the year 1868 some excavations were undertaken in the neighbourhood of the ancient Præneste of the Sabine Equi, now Palestrina, by private speculators, who had the good fortune to find a sarcophagus, containing some objects of great interest and artistic excellence. Among these were three Etruscan specchi, or mirrors, which are figured in the Monumenti inediti dell' Instituto di Correspondenza Archeologica, vol. ix. plate vii., and are further described by Dr. H. Heydemann, in the Annali of that Society, at page 193 of the volume for 1869.
XXIV.—On Byzantine Churches, and the Modifications made in their Arrangements owing to the Necessities of the Greek Ritual
Authors: Freshfield Edwin
Published: January 2012

There is no subject that appears to me to present a better field for inquiry to a Christian antiquary than the architecture and antiquities of the Byzantine Church and the Churches associated with it.
XXVI.—Account of the Exploration of Tumuli at Trevelgue, or Trevalga, in the parish of St. Columb Minor, Cornwall; with Notes on a singular “Cliff Castle” on the same Estate
Authors: Borlase William Copeland
Published: January 2012

There are few pieces of coast scenery in England so little familiar to the tourist as the northern shores of Cornwall. Unexplored, yet well worth exploring, that bleak district still happily remains a “land beyond railways.” Of the treasures it has in store for the geologist, or the lover of natural history, it would be superfluous here to speak; suffice it to say, that, in the shape of cliff castles and tumuli, it presents to the antiquary one continued series of objects of interest. Along the whole line there is scarcely a high piece of cliff or a promontory which does not bear on its rough crest some landmark of pre-historic times. So rapidly, however, is the work of denudation going on, that even within the memory of those now living many a tumulus has fallen a prey to the sea, carrying with it, probably, the bones of some ancient rover, thus rudely restored to that element on which, centuries ago, his bark so gallantly rode. To quote one of the most striking examples of the encroachment of the sea since man left his traces on the cliff, I will take the instance of a “cliff castle” three miles to the north of the town of Camborne. This fortification, in common with all these singular entrenchments, was raised for purposes of defence against the land side, and consists of a double line of earthworks drawn across the neck of what was once a promontory some 70 paces broad. Within these ramparts, where once no doubt there was ample space to accommodate the whole defending force, there is now nothing but a precipice descending abruptly to the sea, some 300 feet below, and leaving scarcely standing room for a single individual between it and the inner side of the earthwork. I mention this instance of the rapidity of the process of denudation on this coast because, from their close proximity to the edge of a similar cliff, it is highly probable that in another half century the very barrows I am about to describe will have shared the same fate.
XXVIII.—Remarks on some Pictures of Quintin Matsys and Holbein, in the Collection of the Earl of Radnor, at Longford Castle
Authors: Nichols John Gough
Published: January 2012

In the Exhibition of Works of the Old Masters made this year (1873) at Burlington House there have been four pictures attributed to Holbein. Three of the four were from the collection of the Earl of Radnor at Longford Castle, where they have long been well known, and they are particularly described by Mr. Wornum in his Life and Works of Hans Holbein, 1867. But the occasion of their being publicly exhibited to many thousands of intelligent observers is one which must invest them with fresh interest, whilst it has afforded an opportunity for more considerate examination than it is always possible to bestow upon pictures when suspended on the walls of a great house. I therefore think there may be room for a few remarks upon these three pictures, even after the attention they have received from Mr. Wornum; whose general conclusions I do not propose to dispute, but rather to confirm; whilst I would offer some historical illustrations in relation to them, which, though actually not very recondite or far-fetched, do not appear to have been hitherto applied as they might have been.
XXIX.—On Donnington Castle, Berkshire
Authors: Godwin Henry
Published: January 2012

On the brow of a hill situate about a mile to the north of the market town of Newbury in Berkshire stand the picturesque ruins of Donnington Castle. The castle derives its name from the little village of Donnington, which is linked with the adjoining hamlet of Shaw in the parochial designation of Shaw-cum-Donnington—a rural district, divided from the parish of Speen by the tiny river Lamborne, which, to use the quaint expression of Sylvester,

in haste doth run

To wash the feet of Chaucer's Donnington.
I.—Notes on some of the Antique and Renaissance Gems
and Jewels in Her Majesty's Collection at Windsor Castle
Authors: Fortnum C. Drury E.
Published: January 2012

The collection of antique and other engraved stones, of jewels of the period of
the Renaissance, and objects of like class but more recent workmanship,
belonging to Her Majesty the Queen, is comparatively little known, although
containing several objects of high importance.
V.—An Holograph Will of Edward Grimston, Esquire, made
in 1449
Authors: Howard Joseph Jackson , Perceval Charles Spencer
Published: January 2012

Some years have elapsed since the Earl of Verulam obliged the Society of
Antiquaries by the exhibition of a remarkable portrait of Edward Grimston, an
eminent English diplomate of the fifteenth century. A
chromo-lithograph of this picture was subsequently published in the
Archæologia, accompanied by a valuable biographical sketch of the person
represented, from the pen of the Director, Mr. Augustus W. Franks, who there set
down all the particulars of Grimston's life and connections which he had been
able to collect.
IX.—On Glass Beads with a Chevron Pattern
Authors: Brent John
Published: January 2012

I beg to exhibit three beads belonging to a class which has excited considerable interest among archaeologists both in this country and in America, and of which the origin appears to be somewhat uncertain.
XII.—On an Examination of the Tombs of Richard II. and Henry III. in Westminster Abbey
Authors: Stanley Arthur Penrhyn
Published: January 2012

The tomb of Richard II. has a triple interest: for Westminster Abbey; for English History generally; and for the Society of Antiquaries.

(1.) For the Abbey, Richard II. must remain, in spite of all his faults, one of its most familiar and consecrated personages. His coronation is described in the only volume handed down from mediæval times to the custody of the successive Deans of Westminster: namely, the Liber Regalis of Abbot Littlington, of which a reprint has lately been made for the Roxburghe Society by the munificence of Lord Beauchamp. The event was further marked by the first appearance of two features in the coronations, both especially connected with Westminster, the Champion, and the Knights of the Bath.
XV.—Note on the Milites Stationarii of the Romans
Authors: Milman Henry Salusbury
Published: January 2012

The Home Office of Imperial Home, as working through the milites stationarii and leaving their indelible mark on our country, was exhibited by Mr. H. C. Coote, in a paper read before us on December 5th, 1872. The novelty of the subject, whilst adding to its interest, rendered it difficult of worthy discussion at the hearing. I have now the permission—nay, the encouragement—of the author to offer some further illustrations of it.
XVI.—An Account of Researches in Ancient Circular Dwellings near Birtley, Northumberland
Authors: Hall G. Rome
Published: January 2012

The district with which these researches are connected lies in North Tynedale, in Western Northumberland. Until recently, when the North British Railway opened the Waverley route into Scotland, it formed an isolated portion of a remote valley, being shut in by the rivers North Tyne and Rede. Situated a few miles to the north of that remarkable monument of the Roman power, the Barrier Wall of Hadrian, and directly connected with it by the old Roman road, the Watling Street, on its eastern side, the district around the ancient village of Birtley, formerly Birkley, was still more secluded by the rivers bounding it on the north and west sides. This isolation, however, together with the fact that these wind-swept uplands, rising in places to about 1,000 feet above the sea, have never been under the plough, except for a short time in the beginning of the present century, has tended to preserve many vestiges of very ancient occupation. Primitive entrenchments or camps abound wherever such simple castrametation was possible, thrown up on the summit of the rounded hills, on the bare escarpments, or on the level plateaux beneath these higher positions, that characterise the lower series of the carboniferous formation. Even the great “crags,” the occasional protruded faults of columnar basalt, were made available as “coigns of vantage” by the early inhabitants.
XIX.—Further Researches in an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Frilford, with Remarks on the Northern Limit of Anglo-Saxon Cremation in England
Authors: Rolleston George
Published: January 2012

The first discovery in the cemetery at Frilford, subsequent to those already recorded in the Archæologia, XLII. p. 417–485, was made on March 22, 1869, when a leaden coffin was found, containing the bones of a young woman, with a toilet comb at the right of the back of her head. This brings the number of leaden coffins found at Frilford up to five; one of them has already been figured in Archæologia, XLII. pl. xxiv. figures 7 and 8.
XX.—Notice of the Discovery of a Cist and its Contents at Moorhouse Farm, Brougham, Westmoreland
Authors: Harkness Robert , Stalker Vallance
Published: January 2012

A short time ago Mr. Hutchinson, the tenant of Moorhouse Farm, the property of the Right Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux, informed one of the authors of this communication, Mr. Stalker, that he had recently laid bare a cist containing human bones, and desired him to examine the circumstances of the occurrence and the nature of the contents.
XV.—The Alien Priority of St. Andrew, Hamble and its transfer to Winchester College in 1391
Authors: Kirby Thomas F.
Published: January 2012

The Priory of St. Andrew, at Hamble, near Southampton, was a cell to the Benedictine abbey of Tyrone (Tirun or Turun), in La Beauce, a district southwest of Chartres, included in the old province of Orléannois. In the Monasticon and Tanner's Notitia it is called a Cistercian abbey, but this is a mistake, and so is the statement in the Notitia that the priory was annexed to New College, Oxford. The priory stood on a “rise” or point of land.—“Hamele-en-le-rys” or “Hamblerice” is its old name—at the confluence of the Hamble river with southampton Water, opposite Calshot castle. Hamble gets its name from Hamele, a thane of the Saxon Meonwaris. Leland calls the place “Hamel Hooke.” The priory church of St. Andrew is now the parish church. It was rebuilt by winchester college in the early part of the fifteenth century, and consists of channel and nave, to which a south aisle was added five or six years ago, and a tower with three bells. There are scarcely any traces above ground of the priory buildings. Like those of the Benedictine convent of St. Swithun, at Winchester, they stood on the south and south-west of the church, so that the graveyard, as at Winchester, is on the north side of the church.
XX.—Notes on an Ancient Boat found at Brigg
Authors: Atkinson Alfred
Published: January 2012

In the month of April, 1886, during the excavation of a pit at the Brigg gas-works, a most interesting boat, of a very primitive type, was found. The upper edges of the sides were first bared; and, as these differed from the “car wood” or buried trees which are so often found in the neighbourhood, the workmen fortunately made a further examination, instead of chopping up the timber to remove it piecemeal. It was then seen to be a boat, in a very fair state of preservation.
XXIV.—The History of Malmesbury as a Village Community
Authors: Gomme G.L.
Published: January 2012

In the north-west of Wilts is a district which contains some remarkable reminiscences of the two dominant races who have influenced the history of this country. In tracing out the history of this district, as it has come down to us by the traditions and records of early chronicle writers, we arrive at an important epoch when for the first time is brought into strongly marked prominence the outline of the community which had settled there. This community, known to us later under the local name of Malmesbury, is one of the most perfect types of the primitive village which has survived in England, and to the elucidation of its chief characteristics it is proposed to devote some little attention. Keeping before us the outline made known from early records we shall see how this is gradually filled in from facts, which though gleaned from later and modern records, are nevertheless stamped as belonging to the earliest stages of history. And when this local mosaic is completely pieced in we shall be able, I think, to satisfy ourselves that what has so persistently clung to locality in later days originally belonged to a social group, types of which are still to be found in Eastern Europe and India, where society is in a state of arrested progress and has not advanced along the lines which mark its development in Western Europe.
III.—On an Astrolabe Planisphere of English make
Authors: Ferguson
Published: January 2012

I have the honour to exhibit, through the kindness of the owner, Mrs. Rinington of Tynefield, Penrith, a planispheric astrolabe of English make. It was included among the antiquities and curiosities exhibited at a recent art and industrial exhibition held at that place, and my attention was drawn to it by a member of the committee, who asked by what name it should be catalogued. I must own that I guessed rather than knew that the object was an astrolabe, but as to its uses I was profoundly ignorant; I borrowed the instrument and endeavoured to inform myself. I found this difficult to do, as the treatises on astrolabes are rare and scarce, and it is impossible to obtain a sight of some of them without a visit to London: this I was unable through illness to undertake. The standard work on the subject is Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe; addressed to Ms son Lowys, and dated 1391. This has been most ably edited for the Early English Text Society by Professor Skeat, and to it I am much indebted. There is also an earlier edition by Mr. Brae, in 1870, which I have not seen. There is a valuable paper in The Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, vol. xii. entitled Remarks on an Astrolabe, by Robert Taylor, M.A., which gives a description of an astrolabe of English make, the property of Mr. Hyett of Painswick House, Gloucestershire. A paper on the astrolabe, by the late Octavius Morgan, F.S.A., is also interred in the Archaeologia, vol. xxxiv., under the title of Supplementary Observations on an Astronomical and Astrological Table Clock, together with an account of the Astrolabe.
VII.—On a MS. List of Officers of the London Trained Bands in 1643
Authors: Dillon Harold Arthur
Published: January 2012

By permission of tho Council of the Royal United Service Institution I exhibit a small MS. entitled Ensignes, Trayned Bands, and Auxiliaries, 1642. It is bound in white vellum, and at one time had strings or laces for keeping it closed. Both covers have a simple tooled and gilt double line round the edge, and in the centre a curious figure drawn in ink. It represents a sort of satyr with a tail and feet like a dragon. The front of his body is covered by an oval shield bearing the arms of the city of London in red ink. The figure holds in his hands on each side of the shield a cornucopiae, out of which rise the heads of several serpents.
XII.—On the exploration of a Barrow at Youngsbury, near Ware, Herts.
Authors: Evans John
Published: January 2012

In treating of the parish of Standon, Salmon, in his History of Hertfordshire, relates that “At the Extremity of this Parish are two large Barrows on the Brink of the Hill which overlooks Thundritch Church, between which and the Barrows is the Course of the Rib. This Place is called Haven End; probably for having been the Harbour where the Danes laid up their Vessels, which they brought from the Thames to Ware and Hertford to carry off their Plunder. Here they were well seated to have the Roman Road for Carriage of what they could pick up, and to drive the Cattle they stole. And these Tumuli being at that Haven, which could never be used as such by any but the Danes, helps forward the Conjecture that these in England are chiefly Danish Work, set up for Victory and Terror.”
XIX.—On a thirteenth-century Oak Hall at Tiptofts Manor, in Essex
Authors: Middleton J. Henry
Published: January 2012

Our Fellow Mr. A. J. Butler has been kind enough to draw my attention to the very interesting old manor house of Tiptofts, near Saffron Walden, in Essex, which is now used as a farm-house, and is the property of Brasenose College, Oxford, of which Mr. Butler is the Bursar. On visiting the place I was much surprised to find that the original house, built wholly of oak, of which a considerable portion still exists, is as early in date as the second half of the thirteenth century.
I.—Notices of the Last Great Plague, 1665–6; from the Letters of John Allin to Philip Fryth and Samuel Jeake. In a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., Director
Authors: Cooper William Durrant
Published: January 2012

Among the MSS. which once belonged to Samuel Jeake, the well-known editor of the Charters of the Cinque Ports, now in the possession of Morton Frewen, Esq. are 190 letters written in the years 1664 to 1674 to Mr. Philip Fryth, a solicitor at Rye, and a few to Mr. Samuel Jeake, by Mr. John Allin, sealed with the device of a pelican and its young, or the death's head and cross bones, or the arms, a chevron between three talbot's or leopard's heads, and the crest a talbot's or leopard's head. Many of these letters relate to the last grievous visitation of London by the Plague (the history of which De Foe compiled). They are very interesting, and I am enabled, by the kindness of T. W. W. Smart, Esq., M.D., to lay extracts before our Society in continuation of the paper of Mr. Samuel Pegge, in the sixth volume of the Archæologia.
V. Memoir of the Life of Adrian the Fourth
Authors: Trollope E.
Published: January 2012

Nicholas, the son of Robert Breakspear, was born early in the twelfth century at Langley Abbot's, in Hertfordshire.

His father appears to have been a younger son of a family deriving its name from a place situated in the adjoining parish of St. Michael; but was so indigent as to have had recourse to mendicant habits, in which his child probably participated. Upon the death of his wife, Robert Breakspear became first a lay-brother, and then a monk, of the adjacent Abbey of St. Alban's, leaving his young son to provide for himself. Nicholas, thus deserted, very naturally hung about the monastery of which his father was an inmate, waiting among the crowd assembled at its gate for the daily distribution of its broken victuals, and occasionally being employed in fulfilling some of the menial offices of the establishment.
VIII. Notes on the Interment of a Young Frankish Warrior, discovered at Envermeu, Seine Inférieure, on September 10, 1856, by the Abbé Cochet. Translated, and followed by some Remarks upon the Abbé's Notes, by W. M. Wylie, Esq. F.S.A. In a Letter addressed to J. Y. Akerman, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Cochet L'Abbé , Wylie W. M.
Published: January 2012

On September 8th, 1856, I commenced my seventh, and last, archæological research in the remarkable cemetery of Envermeu, which, since its first discovery in 1850, has been the means of revealing to me nearly the whole of Merovingian archæology. On the 10th I visited the ground to examine the trenches which the workmen had prepared, and, on the same day, I examined seven interments, the first of which proved to be the most interesting of all my discoveries of this season.
X. On Choirs and Chancels, particularly as to their use in the South of Europe
Authors: Ashpitel Arthur
Published: January 2012

There is scarcely anything more perplexing to the architect in building churches in the revived medieval style than the treatment of the chancel. If he knows anything of, or has any feeling for, Gothic art, he must know how bad, in every point of view, a small or short chancel is. Very few ancient examples are less than one-third of the total length of the building, while in very many the chancel is quite as long as the nave. If the architect follows these proportions, and complies with a notion which has been lately promulgated, and which we shall presently have to examine, that the laity should not be allowed to enter the chancel, then he is told that he has built a church one-third of which is useless; that a large portion of the service is read at such a distance that people cannot hear, and that he has wasted money simply to get a good external effect.
XII. An Account of Researches in Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries at Filkins, and at Broughton Poggs in Oxfordshire
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: January 2012

During the last winter a mason, named John Farmer, while engaged in digging for stone in the village of Filkins, unexpectedly brought to light some Anglo-Saxon remains. Hearing by chance of this discovery, I proceeded to Filkins, and from the account I then received, I at once determined to apply for permission to undertake a systematic investigation of the spot. This was kindly granted by Mr. Robert Watts, the owner of the land, and on the 30th of September I commenced operations.
XIII. Narrative by Sir William Swan, of a Journey to Dresden made by him, in 1678; from a Transcript preserved among the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum. Communicated in a Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl Stanhope, President
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: January 2012

I beg to lay before your Lordship and the Society of Antiquaries a Narrative of some interest as regards the exhibition of the Manners of a former period.

It may not be unknown to your Lordship that, in the olden time, foreign Princes, who had been received into the Order of the Garter in this country, were usually accustomed to acknowledge their high sense of the honour so conferred upon them by the annual celebration of St. George's day in their own countries; thus doing honour to the Order by keeping its feast.
XVIII. Some Account of the Possessions of the Abbey of Malmesbury, in North Wilts, in the days of the Anglo-Saxon Kings; with Remarks on the Ancient Limits of the Forest of Braden
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: January 2012

At the commencement of the present session I had the honour of communicating to the Society some remarks on land limits, appended to a charter of King Athelstan to the Abbey of Malmesbury, the result of a personal survey of Kemble and Ewen, in the northern extremity of the county of Wilts. The success of my investigations on that occasion encouraged me to pursue my researches still further, and to attempt, during the recess, an identification of the possessions of that early religious establishment prior to the Norman Conquest. I exhibit a map (PlateVI.) on which I have marked the ancient and modern names.
I.—Inventories of Plate, Vestments, &c., belonging to the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Mary of Lincoln
Authors: Wordsworth Christopher
Published: January 2012

The task of transcribing and completing Mr. Wickenden's and Mr. Bradshaw's Inventory of the contents of the Chapter Muniment Room at Lincoln has recently brought under my notice certain original inventories of plate and jewels which formerly belonged to that church.

Three of these with two or three subsidiary documents have already appeared in the Monasticon, but not satisfactorily edited.
III.—Remarks on the History of Seat-Reservation in Churches
Authors: Hardy W. J.
Published: January 2012

Having a very strong personal objection to the system of seat-reservation and appropriation in church, I naturally looked forward with considerable satisfaction to reading the pamphlets and works on the subject which I was told would convince me of the antiquity of the “free and open” system, and that “appropriation” and “reservation” were innovations of a comparatively-speaking recent date.
VI.—On the draft of a Letter from King Charles I. to his Queen, Henrietta Maria, December 3, 1644; and on a Vow made by the King on April 13, 1646; the originals of which Documents are now in the Library of St. Paul's cathedral church
Authors: Simpson W. Sparrow
Published: January 2012

In the spring of 1889 a large series of documents formerly in the possession of Edmund Gibson, the learned prelate who for a quarter of a century presided over the see of London, were offered to me for purchase. I at once recognised their interest and importance, and, as it seemed to me that such documents should not remain in private hands, I secured them, not for my own collection but for the library of St. Paul's cathedral church. The papers comprised about ninety volumes in folio or quarto, together with a considerable mass of loose sheets of manuscript matter.
VII.—On a Filtering Cistern of the Fourteenth Century at Westminster Abbey
Authors: Micklethwaite J.T.
Published: January 2012

The way into the cloister of Westminster Abbey from the west is through what in the old days was the parlour, a place where the monks coming from their cloister on the east met those from outside with whom they might have business, who came from the court called The Elms on the west. Now, with its windows blocked up, its walls bare and weather-stained, and its carved and moulded work all decayed and broken, it seems a rather gloomy passage. But it was a light and beautiful room after the general rebuilding of the domestic part of the abbey, which Abbot Litlington completed with the legacy of his predecessor Cardinal Langham. It is in a line with the south walk of the cloister, and lies between the deanery—once the abbot's house—on the north, and the western part of the frater on the south. This end of the frater was walled off from the rest below and formed the pantry and buttery, above which was a gallery.
VIII.—Notes on the Church of St. Francis, or Tempio Malatestiano, at Rimini; more especially as regards the sculptured decorations
Authors: Higgins Alfred
Published: January 2012

Complaints have been not infrequent of late years that the history of the Italian Renaissance is a subject that is worn rather threadbare. So far as popular and picturesque writing is concerned there may be some truth in this complaint, but it can hardly apply to serious studies, and it certainly does not apply to one branch of the subject, the history of the revival of the national style of architecture in Italy in the first half of the fifteenth century. Due homage has, indeed, been paid to the genius which raised aloft the splendid dome of S. Maria del Fiore, and the history of that achievement has, I believe, been thoroughly investigated. But Brunellesco was something more than an engineer, and the history of his purely architectural works, so remarkable for their severe and noble style, seems not unworthy of being studied in the same spirit and with the same scientific method as the Gothic architecture of the north. Nor are the buildings of Alberti, Antonio di San Grallo, Bramante, and other early architects less worthy of antiquarian research, and much of their history remains very obscure.
V.—The First Charter of Liberties given by Penn to Pennsylvania, described in a Letter from Richard Almack, Esq., F.S.A., to Augustus Wollaston Franks, Esq., formerly Director S.A., with Remarks by Henry Salusbury Milman, Esq., Director S.A.
Authors: Almack Richard
Published: January 2012

At this period the system of government of the United States is exciting universal attention.

I am the owner of the original Charter which founds the liberties of Pennsylvania.

It is on two skins of parchment, dated 25th April, 1682.

If you think it worthy of the attention of the Society of Antiquaries, I beg to produce it for their inspection.
VI.—The Custumary of the Manor and Soke of Rothley, in the County of Leicester
Authors: Clark George Thomas
Published: January 2012

The Manor and Soke of Rothley, in the county of Leicester, compose a franchise described in Domesday as having been held by the Confessor, and being held, as ancient demesne, by the Conqueror at the date of the Survey. After one or two temporary alienations, manor and soke were granted by Henry III., in the twenty-ninth year of his reign, to the order of the Temple, when they were at once erected into a preceptory.
X.—On the Sculptured Tympanum of a former Doorway in the Church of South Ferriby, Lincolnshire
Authors: Keyser Charles Edward
Published: January 2012

The village of South Ferriby is situate on the south bank of the Humber, and is the northernmost of a chain of small villages nearly all having names terminating in “by,” placed under or on the western escarpment of the Lincolnshire Wolds, where they approach the Humber, and overlook the valley through which flows the river Ancholme. The small parish church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is chiefly deserving of notice on account of its peculiar situation and plan, and for the curious early Romanesque doorhead or tympanum shown by the accompanying illustration (Fig. 1). The church is built on a level platform cut out about half way up the hill. It consists of a nave standing north, and south, with a small chancel projecting eastward and considerably above the level of the nave, a low tower occupying the north-east angle between the nave and chancel, and a west porch opposite the chancel. Judging from some window tracery still remaining, the church seems to be of fourteenth century date, but it has been subjected to numerous alterations culminating in a restoration, in which the chancel has been converted into a vestry and the altar placed at the north end of the nave, which has been lengthened and made precisely like a barn in its general plan and arrangement. It is said that at one time there was a kind of western aisle formed by oak posts and struts supporting a beam, but no traces of this remain in the present renovated nave.
XII.—On the Mithraeum at Spoleto
Authors: Coote H. C.
Published: January 2012

Of all the discoveries of caves of Mithras none has equalled in interest the one recently made in the city of Spoleto; and it is fortunate for science that Professor Fabio Gori (so well known in Roman research in connexion with our Fellow, J. H. Parker, C.B.) was immediately on the spot personally to note the status quo, and to perpetuate its details by photography and drawing.
I. Medieval Architecture in Aquitaine; in continuation of previous Papers. A Letter addressed to the Viscount Mahon, President
Authors: Parker John Henry
Published: January 2012

In my last letter I carried the account of my architectural Tour in the English provinces of France as far as Bordeaux; the following year I made this my starting point, and traversed the length of the ancient province of Guienne, which it is hardly necessary to ohserve is a long and rather narrow strip across the south of France, extending from Bordeaux in the west, nearly to Lyons in the east, leaving Gascony and Languedoc in the south, and other smaller provinces to the north. I have paid no attention to the modern division of the country into departments, it not being material to my purpose; and my rapid passage from one department to another would have caused great confusion in describing my route.
III. On the Origin of the Title and Office of Cursitor-Baron of the Exchequer. In a Letter addressed to Lord Viscount Strangford, F.R.S., V.P
Authors: Foss Edward
Published: January 2012

I am induced to address your Lordship, not so much on account of the general interest you have always taken in antiquarian researches, as presuming that, from your descent from a Chief Justice of the reign of Henry VII., and your possession of his Sergeant's Ring, with the first known instance of a posy inscribed, you will have a special regard to those inquiries which relate to legal history. Your connection also with a Chief Baron of the Exchequer of the last century warrants me more particularly in calling your Lordship's attention to the following observations with reference to the title of an officer of the latter court, which I trust may be worthy of the consideration of our Society.