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XXIV.—Notes made during a Tour in the West of France. By John Henry Parker, Esq., F.S.A. Communicated in two Letters to Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N., F.R.S., Director
Authors: Parker John Henry
Published: June 2012

According to your kind suggestion, I venture to address to you some notes made during a tour in the west of France last summer. You will probably remember that some years ago the late Mr. Rickman commenced a series of papers on the “Architecture of a part of France compared with that of England,” which were printed in the Archseologia. He concluded them by expressing a hope that others who may have time and opportunity would follow up what he had so well begun. His observations are confined to the northern part of France—Normandy and Picardy. The object which I had in view in undertaking my tour, was to pursue these observations in the other provinces of France which belonged to England in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries. As I believe that their architectural character is very little known, you may perhaps think these notices worthy of being submitted to the Society of Antiquaries, more especially as I was accompanied by an artist who has made me some very careful drawings to illustrate my observations.
XXVI.—Memoir on the Practice of Banishment, as it obtained in the Reign of James II. among those who were sentenced to death for their Participation in the Rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth. By George Roberts, Esq.
Authors: Roberts George
Published: June 2012

At the time I was engaged in collecting materials for my “Life, Progresses, and Rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth,” in 2 vols. 8vo. published in 1844, scarcely any detailed information could be procured respecting any of the exiled followers of the duke. The fate of only four individuals was actually ascertained; and the intimate personal history of no one, much less the general treatment, transportation, and return of any, could be learned from whatever quarter. A lady wrote to me, and obligingly supplied what is to so many an object of great interest, in the shape of a MS. narrative of the transportation, sale, and labour of John Coad; which I advised should be forwarded to Mr. Macaulay for his then expected work. An imperfect copy was accordingly sent, which has since been printed, the deficient part being supplied before the issue to the public from, I believe, the copy lent to me. Another of the kind contributors to my labours was one of the family of the late John Frederick Pinney, Esq. of Somerton Erleigh, who searched amongst old family papers, and has had the gratification of having produced for my use matter important to general history and biography.
IV. Observations, in a Letter from the Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne, M.A. to Thomas Amyot, Esq. Treasurer, upon the Present State of Orford Castle, in the County of Suffolk; with some Conjectures as to the probable uses to which parts of the Building were assigned
Authors: Hartshorne Charles Henry
Published: June 2012

Position.—ORFORD Castle is in no way remarkable for its position. It lies nearly two miles from the sea, and about half a mile from the river Ore, which here flows through low swampy ground, whilst on the land side the country is for some miles perfectly flat. But this natural weakness of its situation has been in some measure made up by the keep being erected upon a mound, that in a degree is artificial, and being surrounded by a fosse, varying from twenty to thirty feet in depth. In addition to this, the multangular keep was encircled by a lofty wall, that had merlons and a parapet walk all round. This concentric defence terminated at the approach across the fosse on the south-western side. Very little of it now remains, and even the whole of that which does, is so much hollowed out and broken near the ground, that it stands in a precarious and dangerous state.
XI. Explanation of the Myth upon a fictile Vase found at Canino, now in the British Museum; in a Letter from Samuel Birch, Esq. addressed to Edward Hawkins, Esq. F.R.S., & S.A.
Authors: Birch Samuel
Published: June 2012

It is at your request and aided by your archæological experience that I have drawn up the short accompanying Memoir on a Vase recently acquired by the British Museum from the collection of the Prince of Canino, concerning the explanation of the figures represented upon which we hold many points in common.
XX. Remarks on an unpublished Inscription to the Emperor Tetricus, found at Bittern, near Southampton: in a Letter from Charles Roach Smith, Esq., F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Smith Charles Roach
Published: June 2012

During a late visit to Bittern, the site of Clausentum, I observed in the garden of the Manor House, which (together with a lawn and plantations) now occupies a large part of the Roman station, an inscription to the Emperor Tetricus, which does not appear to have been published.
XIX.—On some early Notices relating to the Antiquities of St. Alban's, by Thomas Wright, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Wright Thomas
Published: June 2012

Some time ago the Society of Antiquaries did me the honour of listening to, and printing in its Transactions, a few remarks on the Antiquarian excavations made by the monks during the middle ages; on the destruction of many ancient monuments by this process; and on the purposes to which the articles thus brought to light were turned. Perhaps I may be permitted to recall the attention of the members of the Society to this subject, which will be hardly considered an uninteresting one, in order to shew how much may be learnt on the subject of local monuments of antiquity in this country from a careful perusal of the legendary literature of the church. So general was the custom of turning old popular legends into religious legends, and so universally were such popular legends attached to ancient sites and monuments, that we need not be surprised at the great importance which these monuments often assume in the histories of the lives and miracles of saints, and at the numerous and curious descriptions of these monuments which we find in the peculiar class of literature to which I allude.
XXI.—Two Letters relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Communicated by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. Sec. in a Letter to Capt. W. H. Smyth, Director
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

I have copies of two very interesting documents to communicate to our Society, and I know not to whom they can be so appropriately addressed as to our Naval Director.

One is a Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Admiral of England, dated on the 25th of July, 1588, announcing that Queen Elizabeth had given order that in the county of Kent a good number of her best and choicest shot of the Trained Bands should be forthwith sent to the sea-side, that upon notice given from him they might be brought to double man the particular ships which were under his own command, and that of Lord Henry Seymour.
XVIII.—Some Account of the Merovingian Cemetery of Envermeu; also of certain Weapons of the Franks. By W. M. Wylie, Esq., F.S.A.: in a Letter to J. Y. Akerman, Esq., Secretary
Authors: Wylie W. M.
Published: June 2012

The progress of Archæological discovery in France, elucidative of the Merovingian period, though always most important and interesting in itself, becomes yet infinitely more so when considered in connection with the advance we also have been able to make in the study of the remains of our own coetaneous Anglo-Saxon epoch. I therefore feel happy in being able to lay a few details on this subject before the Society, chiefly with reference to the Frankish cemetery at Envermeu, now under investigation by the Abbé Cochet in pursuance of his official duties.
XIX.—Observations on the Celtic Megaliths, and the contents of Celtic Tombs, chiefly as they remain in the Channel Islands, by Frederick Collings Lukis, M.D. In a Letter to the Viscount Mahon, President
Authors: Lukis Frederick Collings
Published: June 2012

Few of the structural works of former years require more patient and careful investigation than those generally attributed to the Celtic People.

It is very remarkable that, while some classical writers have alluded to their religious rites and ceremonies, they scarcely notice the stone structures, and are silent on their sepulchres and modes of burying the dead.
XXXV.—Note on the opening of four Ancient British Barrows in South Wilts. By John Yonge Akerman, Secretary
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: June 2012

Notwithstanding the obscurity in which the early history of Britain is enveloped, the antiquary still fondly clings to the hope that some additional light may be cast upon it by the acquisition of monumental evidence. Accident sometimes produces relics which keep alive this hope, and induce a further investigation of the sepulchral mounds which yet abound on our downs and uncultivated land. These however, unlike the grouped tumuli and graves of the Saxon period, offer but few provocatives to explore them. Their frequent large size, their compact construction, the time occupied in a proper investigation of their contents, and their situation frequently in lofty or exposed districts, render this description of barrow-digging at once tedious, irksome, and laborious.
XV.—An Account of the Scheme for erecting a Royal Academy in England, in the Reign of King James the First. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.
Authors: Hunter Joseph
Published: June 2012

When the present Society of Antiquaries of London determined on printing from time to time communications which were made to them, in a series of volumes to be entitled Archæologia, they determined also that there should be prefixed to that work an Introduction, in which should be given a history of their own foundation, and of the attempts which had been previously made to collect the lovers of history and antiquities in associations for the prosecution of their inquiries, and for mutual assistance in their studies. It is not necessary to inquire to whom they committed the task of preparing this Introduction. It is done perhaps as well as the state of the knowledge of the literary history of the country at that period allowed. But when looked at from times when the public mind is not so easily satisfied to remain in ignorance of the minute facts in the history of great undertakings, it cannot, I fear, but be regarded as imperfect and unsatisfactory.
XVIII.—Letter from Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., F.S.A., addressed to Albert Way, Esq., Director, communicating a transcript of a MS. Treatise on the preparation of Pigments, and on various processes of the Decorative Arts practised during the Middle Ages, written in the twelfth century, and entitled Mappæ Clavicula
Authors: Phillipps Thomas
Published: June 2012

The manuscript entitled Mappæ Clavicula, signifying the Little Key of Drawing, or Painting, is a small duodecimo volume of sixty-seven leaves of vellum, written in the twelfth century. It appears to be perfect, except a leaf torn out between pp. 64 and 65 of the modern paging, and a little cropping in two leaves.
IV. Letter from Thomas Stapleton, Esq. F.S.A. to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director, accompanying two transcripts of ancient Charters relating to property in Normandy
Authors: Stapleton Thomas
Published: June 2012

Amongst the transcripts of charters which I possess relating to Normandy, I have thought two of sufficient interest, as illustrative of judicial proceedings and feudal obligations at the time of the invasion of England, when the national usages of the conquerors were partially blended with the institutions of our Saxon population, to venture to offer them through you to the notice of the Society. The first is from the muniments of the celebrated abbey of Jumièges, now deposited in the archives of the Département de la Seine Inférieure, and my transcript is taken from a copy upon paper in the possession of Mons. Deville of Rouen, to whose kindness I was indebted for the loan of it. It contains the narrative of a monk of Jumièges (Rainald the chaplain) detailing the circumstances under which he became possessed of certain property in Bayeux, in replication to a claim set up by Samson the clerk, apparently the same person with Samson de Douvres, afterwards treasurer of Bayeux, consecrated to the see of Worcester in 1097.
XIX. On the Measures taken for the Apprehension of Sir Thomas de Gournay, one of the Murderers of King Edward the Second, and on their final Issue: in a Letter to Hudson Gurney, Esq. F.R.S., V.P. from the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.
Authors: Hunter Joseph
Published: June 2012

Among the ancient compotuses in the Exchequer which have been lately brought to light by the exertions of the Honourable Board of Commissioners on the Public Records, are several which relate to the measures taken by King Edward the Third to bring to justice Sir Thomas de Gournay, the principal actor, as was alleged, in the murder of his father in Berkeley Castle: and as they place the circumstances of his capture, and his ultimate fate, in a light entirely different from that in which they are placed by the old Chroniclers De la Moor and Walsingham, and by modern historians, who, in addition to the Chronicles, have had the benefit of the letters relating to this affair which are printed in the Fœdera, it has occurred to me, that it might be acceptable to the Society of Antiquaries if I were to lay a summary of the contents of these documents before it.
XXII. Instructions by Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, to his son Algernon Percy, touching the management of his Estate, Officers, &c. written during his confinement in the Tower: Communicated by James Heywood Markland, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A.
Authors: Markland James Heywood
Published: June 2012

These Instructions were transcribed by Mr. Malone from a MS. preserved in the library at Petworth, and by the late Earl of Egremont I was authorised to lay them before the Society of Antiquaries. They form the second of three treatises, all of which were written by Henry Earl of Northumberland, and addressed to his son. The first, written in 1595, consists of thirty-three pages, and is without a title; but we may gather from the introductory paragraph of the following paper, that its object was similar to the present one.
V. Letter of Sir Thomas Stanhope, of Shelford, co. Notts., to Lord Treasurer Burghley, respecting the Funeral of his Mother, Anne Lady Stanhope. Communicated by Richard Almack, Esq. F.S.A., in a Letter to Albert Way, Esq. M.A., Director
Authors: Almack Richard
Published: June 2012

In the valuable collection of Original Letters edited by Sir Henry Ellis (Vol. II. second Series), I observe two in 1569 and 1570 from Lady Stanhope to Sir William Cecill, respecting the unhappy marriage of her daughter with Mr. afterwards Sir John Hotham of Scorborough in Yorkshire, and also Sir John's letter to Cecill, as “Master of the Wards and Lyveries,” defending himself, and in which he expatiates on the “Stanhopes eville delinge many wayes,” but with less asperity than the lady, who not only reviles him, but, in fact, the whole county of York, and says “especially in Yorkshire, where he may suborne men and women to say what he listeth to serve his devilishe purpose.” The lady had purchased the wardship of Hotham, and married him to her daughter, but it appears that after all it was a bad bargain, as she had not purchased his love.
IX. Observations on a Vase found at Sandy, in Bedfordshire. By Samuel Birch, Esq., F.S.A., Assistant Keeper of the Antiquities in the British Museum: in a Letter addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Birch Samuel
Published: June 2012

I beg to inclose the drawing, made by our friend Mr. J. B. Fitz-Gerald, of a Vase of red Roman ware discovered at Chester Field, in the parish of Sandy, nine miles from Bedford, in digging a potato trench. It was found in the month of September of the present year, and is now in the collection of the British Museum.
X. Observations on the Figures of Anacreon and his Dog, as represented upon some Greek Fictile Vases in the British Museum. By Samuel Birch, Esq., F.S.A., Assistant Keeper of the Antiquities in the British Museum
Authors: Birch Samuel
Published: June 2012

The various fictile Græco-Italian vases found northward of Rome, as well as those of Southern Italy, are decorated with subjects, the interest of which is chiefly mythological.

If the legends of the Iliad, the traditions of the Poets of the Epic Cycle, and the narratives of the return of the Greeks from the Siege of Troy, be placed without the pale of history, there are but few vases representing subjects which can be considered historical.
XXIII. Letter from M. Octave Delepierre, Secretary of the Belgian Legation, Honorary F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary, communicating a Document preserved among the Records of West Flanders, relating to the carved Stalls of Melrose Abbey Church
Authors: Delepierre Octave
Published: June 2012

I venture to submit to you a Document which may perhaps offer some interest to the Society of Antiquaries.

Unable to show my gratitude for the honour they have conferred upon me, in admitting a stranger amongst them, by any work of great length, because it is very hazardous to write on scientific subjects in a foreign language, I will try, notwithstanding, to prove that I am not entirely unworthy of the favour done me. Having been occupied for six years in researches among the old records and charters of Flanders, I have collected a good number of documents relating to the connexion which existed formerly between England and my Country. If it were agreeable to the Society of Antiquaries, I could send you, from time to time, Copies of these Documents. I have now the honour of submitting to you one of them, on the carved Stalls of the ancient church of Melrose Abbey in Scotland.
XXXIV. A Letter to George Godwin, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A., &c. &c., on the subject of Remains ascribed to the era of the Druids in Furness, North of Lancashire. By Charles M. Jopling, Esq.
Authors: Jopling Charles M.
Published: June 2012

Some time ago I promised that I would draw up a short description of the antiquities of the part of Lancashire called Furness, which are commonly ascribed to the Druidical period. I do not consider that I have, by any means, fully investigated these remains; and I should have preferred the perfecting of my acquaintance with each, by careful investigation, did I not fear that the information already collected may, very possibly, together with my intention, be lost.
XII.—The Annals of Thothmes III., as derived from the Hieroglyphical Inscriptions. By Samuel Birch, Esq., Assistant Keeper of the Antiquities in the British Museum
Authors: Birch Samuel
Published: June 2012

The appearance of the magnificent work of the Chevalier Lepsius, containing such vast materials for the history of Egypt, a copy of which has been presented by the King of Prussia to the Society of Antiquaries, compels me to resume my labours upon the annals of the Egyptian monarch Thothmes III. I had formerly given some account of this reign, perhaps the most glorious for Egypt, in translating the so-called statistical inscription of Karnak; but the publication of four other inscriptions, all having relation to the same subject, renders it necessary to give a translation of the entire five, and to show their corresponding relation to each other. Unfortunately, the mutilation of this monument, either by the incursions of time, by fanatical heretics of the oldest period of Egypt itself, or by other barbarian hands, renders the text considerably interrupted and mutilated. Yet the careful reader can still follow the thread of the narrative, and study this fragment of the old colossal history of Central Asia and civilized Africa. Not, however, to dilate here too much on the historical portion, but merely warning the inquirer that the apparent incoherence is caused not so much by our ignorance of the hieroglyphical writing as by the great lacunae in .the text, and also observing that the philological observations are thrown into the notes, in order not to encumber the general remarks, I will proceed to the interpretation of these five inscriptions in their historical order. They occur on the wall of the great temple of the god Amen Ra, at Karnak, one of the quarters of Thebes, close to the granite sanctuary at Thebes, which was built by Thothmes III. and restored by the monarch Har-em-hebi, or Horus, of the eighteenth dynasty. About one half of the text is wanting.
XVII.—Conclusion of New Materials for a Life of Sir Walter Raleigh. In a Letter addressed to Lord Viscount Mahon, President, from J. Payne Collier, Esq. Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries
Authors: Collier J. Payne
Published: June 2012

With the permission of your Lordship I am about to address to you a short and concluding continuation of some Papers which were read in the season of 1850-1, containing hitherto unnoticed materials for a Memoir of Sir Walter Raleigh. Those materials were derived from various sources, public and private, and brought the history of one of the founders of our Society—a man of great learning, multifarious talents, and energetic and enterprising spirit—down to the year 1598; when I showed, I believe for the first time, that he was employed against the rebels in Ireland, and had offered a price for the head of Tyrone.
I. Copy of the Inventory of Archbishop Parker's Goods at the time of his Death; communicated by William Sandys, Esq. F.S.A., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Sandys William
Published: June 2012

I beg to lay before the Society of Antiquaries a copy of the Inventory of the Goods of Archbishop Parker, exhibited by his son, John Parker, esq., as executor, in 1577. The original is on a roll of parchment (consisting of nine pieces) seventeen feet and a quarter in length, by seven inches and a quarter in breadth, and is in a state of complete preservation.
IV. Account of the opening by Matthew Bell, Esq. of an ancient British Barrow, in Iffins Wood, near Canterbury, in the month of January, 1842, in a Letter from John Yonge Akerman, Esq. F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: June 2012

The various groups of tumuli in the eastern parts of Kent are well known to our English antiquaries; and it is a fact pretty generally established, that they are referable to a period extending from the time of the abandonment of this Island by the Romans (and perhaps earlier) down to the establishment of Christianity, when it became the practice to inter the dead in some consecrated place, within the precincts of the church. To this period belong the numerous barrows on Barham Downs, near Canterbury; and the excavations recently made by Lord Albert Conyngham in the group on Breach Downs, adjacent to the village of Barham, prove that they also are of the same age.
XI. Letter from Charles Roach Smith, Esq. F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary, communicating an Account of some Antiquities found in the neighbourhood of Sandwich, in the county of Kent
Authors: Smith Charles Roach
Published: June 2012

Mr. William Henry Rolfe, of Sandwich, has kindly placed in my hands, for the inspection of the Society, a variety of interesting remains, found within the last few years at Gilton, Coombe, Woodnesborough, and Richborough.
XVI. Extracts from the Copy-Book of Letters received by Sir Henry Witherington, Knt. Marshal of Berwick, between Nov. 1581 and Nov. 1592, preserved in the Ordnance Office in the Tower of London. Communicated by Robert Porrett, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Porrett Robert
Published: June 2012

Amongst some old books and papers belonging to the Office of Ordnance in the Tower to which I have access, there is one which contains copies of numerous Letters received by Sir Henry Witherington, Knt. Marshal of Berwick, between November 1581 and November 1592. These Letters are principally from Lord Hunsdon as Governor of Berwick; but there are others from Sir Francis Walsingham, from the Earl of Essex, and from the King of Scotland. This book is in the hand-writing of the period named.
XXXIII. Extracts from Letters from William Roots, Esq., of Kingston-on-Thames, to W. R. Hamilton, V.P.S.A., &c. &c., dated Dec. 20, 1843, and Jan. 13, 1844, respecting some Relics of remote times, found in the bed of the River Thames, between Kingston and Hampton Court
Authors: Roots William
Published: June 2012

I am happy to have an opportunity of sending to you for inspection, and if you think right for exhibition before the Society of Antiquaries, some relics of the olden time, which have lately been brought to light by the operations now carrying on in the bed of the Thames, between Kingston and Hampton Court, and at a short distance from my residence. The ballast heavers have been raising a vast mass of gravel and soil from the bed of the river, to raise and improve the barge-walk, and render it more passable during the floods. The process has been going on for some time, chiefly on the Middlesex side; and many memorials of remote times have been recovered, principally instruments of a warlike character. I have been able to secure some of them for my small collection. These objects are all found about seven feet below a bed of gravel, and resting about two feet deep in a bed of blue clay. I am keeping a sharp look out for other discoveries of the same kind; but, as the river is now rising fast, the depth of water will probably delay for a time the chance of meeting with any more. You are aware that several objects of this description, and found in the same vicinity, have been for some time in our friend and my neighbour Jesse's possession. Many of them, and they are very fine and beautiful specimens of the kind, were discovered a few years ago, during the operation of sinking the cofferdams for our new bridge.
I. Account of a Sepulchral Monument in the Campo Santo, at Pisa; with Observations on the disputed Date of that Building: in a Letter from Sydney Smirke, Esq. F.S.A. addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Smirke Sydney
Published: June 2012

I Beg that you will do me the favour to accept the accompanying Drawing, and (should you think fit) to lay it before the Society of Antiquaries. It is a careful representation, made by me at Pisa in 1825, of a sepulchral Monument of the date 1359, preserved in one of the chapels of the Campo Santo. As a work of art this piece of sculpture has considerable merit; there is some elegance in its general form, and great delicacy in the details; and the date, inscribed upon a fillet of the pedestal, gives it additional interest in the eye of an Antiquary.
VIII. Description of two antient British Shields, preserved in the Armoury at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; in a Letter addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary, from Samuel Rush Meyrick, LL.D. and F.S.A.
Authors: Meyrick Samuel Rush
Published: June 2012

The two shields from the collection at Goodrich Court, which I have the honor to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries, are antient British, and termed in that language the Tarian and the Ysgwyd (pronounced Usgooyd). Before entering upon the separate description of each, I beg leave to observe that much information respecting the aborigines of this island is to be obtained from the names they gave to things and places. The latter are either descriptive or commemorative, but as not wanted for my present purpose I shall not trouble you with citing any instances; the former are either indigenous or derived from a foreign source, and attention to this distinction will render great assistance in the investigation of any British antiquities.
XVI. Letter addressed by John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director, to Henry Petrie, Esq., accompanying drawings of Remains of the Prior of Lewes' Hostelry, in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark
Authors: Gage John
Published: June 2012

The Church of St. Olave, Southwark, was confirmed to the Prior and Convent of St. Pancras of Lewes, in Sussex, by William, second Earl Warren and Surrey, son of their founder, and in face of the Church on the south side of the way now called Tooley Street, contiguous with Carter Lane, they built, or became possessed of, a Hostelry for the convenience of the Prior and monks coming to London, and for the reception of strangers. It does not appear how they acquired this property; the charter of confirmation does not comprise any lands in Southwark. Earl William died in 1138, and there are sufficient grounds for presuming that the Prior had no lodgings in St. Olave's until a later period.
XX. Historical notices of the Great Bell Tower of the Abbey Church of St. Edmundsbury: in a Letter from John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Gage John
Published: June 2012

The body of St. Edmund reposed in a basilica of wood until Canute, in a kingly spirit, animositate regia, raised a stone church to the honour of the martyr, which Egelnothus Archbishop of Canterbury, dedicated, with pomp, in 1032: and it is a remarkable fact in the history of our ecclesiastical architecture, that within half a century after the erection of this church it was pronounced unworthy of the improvement which had at that time taken place in the art of building. Baldwin, Abbot of St. Edmund's, under the auspices of the Conqueror, laid the foundations of another church, because, says the monk Hermannus, a contemporary, hœc quoque simplici facta schemate, non sic artificalis ut quœdam construuntur hoc tempore. The Presbytery of Baldwin's church, by the same author compared for magnificence to Solomon's Temple, was consecrated in 1095.
IX. Accompts of the Manor of the Savoy, temp. Richard II.; Communicated by William Walton, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Sec.
Authors: Walton William
Published: June 2012

In the course of my official researches I have met with two original Bailiff's Accompts for the Manor and Liberty of the Savoy, which may serve to illustrate the prices of materials and labour in the time of King Richard the Second. They are the Accompts of John Ekleston, then Bailiff of the Savoy, rendered to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, for two years, viz. from Lady-day, 16th Richard II. to the same term in the 17th year of that king, and for the following year. I am enabled, by the permission of Lord Holland, Chancellor of the Duchy, most readily granted, to lay these Accompts before the Society. I need not enlarge upon the well known fact of the destruction of the Palace of the Savoy by the rebels in what is called Wat Tyler's insurrection, with, as the Chronicles say, “all the princely furniture and stock therein” belonging to the unpopular Prince John of Gaunt, titular King of Castile, &c. The building of this house cost Henry Duke of Lancaster (father-in-law to John of Gaunt), 50,000 marks, and the restoration of it seems to have been in progress during the time of these accounts, particularly of a tower in the Savoy, called “Symeon Tower.” It does not precisely appear whether this Tower was a new erection, or only a reparation. I am inclined to think it was the latter, though the first Accompt is for the Costs and expenses within the said Manor, for one Tower called Symeon Tower, which are afterwards specified. There is no charge for the masonry or brickwork of the Tower: probably the walls only remained “post Rumorem,” as the Accompt quaintly terms the Insurrection. It seems the Tower contained a prison, whether of new or former erection.
XII. Observations on the History of Cædmon. By Francis Palgrave, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A., in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Palgrave Francis
Published: June 2012

It has not perhaps been hitherto remarked that the well-known history of Cædmon has its exact parallel. We learn from a fragment, entitled “Præfatio in librua antiquua lingua Saxonica conscriptum;” published amongst the Epistles of Hincmar Bishop of Rhemes (Bibliotheca Patrum, Paris, 1644, vol. xvi. p. 609) that Ludovicus Pius, being desirous to furnish his subjects with a version of the Holy Scriptures, applied to a Saxon Bard of great talent and fame. The Poet, a peasant or husbandman, when entirely ignorant of his art, had been instructed in a dream to render the precepts of the Divine Law into the verse and measure of his native language. His translation, now unfortunately lost, to which the fragment was prefixed, comprehended the whole of the Bible. The text of the original was interspersed with mystic allusions; and the beauty of the composition was so great, that, in the opinion of the writer of the preface, no reader, perusing the verse, could doubt the source of the poetic inspiration of the Bard.
XIII. Further Account of the Anglo-Saxon Coins, called Stycas, recently discovered at Hexham, in the County of Northumberland: communicated by John Adamson, Esq. Sec. S.A. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Authors: Adamson John
Published: June 2012

In the account of the discovery of these Coins, which I had the honour to present to the Society, I signified my intention of taking advantage of my local situation to have drawings made of any varieties which might come under my view, and of making a further communication to the Society, if my researches should prove successful.
I. Account of some Coins found in certain Tumuli in the Southern District of the Peninsula of India. In a Letter from Sir Anthony Carlisle, Knt. F.R.S. and S.A. to Richard Payne Knight, Esq. V. P. &c. &c. &c.
Authors: Carlisle Anthony
Published: June 2012

The following Narrative and Extracts, copied from a Journal of Surveying, at the instance of the Honourable East India Company, have been obligingly delivered to me by my good neighbour Lieutenant Colonel James L. Caldwell, C. B. of the Honourable East India Company's Engineers, and as several incidents thus stated appear to deserve the notice of Antiquaries, I commit them, together with three ancient specimens of silver Coins, to your hands, desiring the latter to be placed in your cabinet, if they come within the range of that valuable collection.
VI. Account of the Seal of Geoffrey Bishop of Lincoln, natural son of King Henry the Second. In a Letter from Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, President
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

By the kindness of Mr. Philip Audinet, I am enabled to lay before your Lordship, and the Society, a Drawing of an impression from an unpublished Seal of Geoffrey, Bishop of Lincoln, the second of the natural sons of King Henry the Second by fair Rosamond. The original is appended to a grant of certain Churches to the Priory of Bulington, in Lincolnshire, remaining among the Harleian charters in the British Museum.
XVII. Warrant of Indemnity and Discharge to Lionel Earl of Middlesex, Lord High Treasurer, and to the other Commissioners of the Jewels, for having delivered certain Jewels to King James the First, which were sent by his Majesty into Spain, to the Prince of Wales and Duke of Buckingham, dated July 7, 1623. Communicated by Robert Lemon, Esq. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Lemon Robert
Published: June 2012

I beg leave to advert to a very interesting Communication, which you laid before the Society of Antiquaries, the last night of their Meeting before the recess, of Letters from Charles Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Buckingham, to King James the First, from Madrid, in April 1623, requesting that a supply of Jewels might be sent to Spain, for their use, and to make presents; which you have recently printed in your valuable Collection of Original Letters on English History; and I have now the pleasure of transmitting to you, a copy of a very curious Document in this Office, which I flatter myself you will consider as an interesting appendage to the Letters alluded to, as it specifies every Jewel which was delivered to King James the First, to be sent to Spain, in consequence of the Prince and Duke's requisition.
XVIII. Observations upon some Ancient Buildings in Prussia; by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.S.A. In a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Repton John Adey
Published: June 2012

Permit me through your hands to communicate to the Society of Antiquaries, a few Specimens of ancient Buildings, collected during a professional journey in Prussia. I did not meet with any remains of pure Saxon or Norman Architecture, i. e. buildings consisting of the Semi-circular Arch alone. The earliest specimens of antiquity I have been able to find, are those composed of a mixture of the Semi-circular and the Pointed Arch, as in the drawings marked I. and II. If we are to judge from the style of Architecture in England, these buildings appear to have been erected between the year 1150 and 1200; and which is remarkable, they are composed of moulded bricks, of which we have no example in this country at so early a period (except in the works of the Romans). In the northern part of Germany bricks are generally used, and frequently covered with composition, see a specimen of a church tower in Berlin, in the drawing No. III. the character of which is of the reign of our Henry the Third. The drawing No. IV. represents two windows from another Church in Berlin, which may be considered curious from the slenderness and great length of the munnions, composed of moulded bricks, which like the church windows in Holland are carried to great perfection, and differ much from the heavy brick munnions as executed in England during the 16th and 17th centuries.
XX. Account of the Instrument of Legitimation granted by Mary Queen of Scots to her Brother James, afterwards Earl of Murray: By Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S. Treasurer; in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. President
Authors: Amyot Thomas
Published: June 2012

By the kindness of Mr. Bennett, of Norwich, I am permitted to exhibit to the Society a Document connected with Scottish History, which I had the honour to shew to your Lordship last week, and which is certainly rendered interesting by the characters of the parties to whom it relates.
XXXIII. Concerning the Place where Julius Cæsar landed in Britain: By Major Rennell, F.R.S.
Authors: Rennell
Published: June 2012

It is well known that Julius Cæsar made two military expeditions to Britain, in the autumns of two consecutive years, [B.C. 55 and 54]. His place of embarkation in Gaul, was Portus Itius for his infantry (lib. v. 2, 5.), and another port (not named) eight miles distant from it, probably Boulogne for his cavalry (lib. iv. 22). M. D'Anville has decided that Portus Itius was Witsand Bay, situated between the Capes of Grisnez and Blancnez; and directly facing Dover. Cæsar says that it was at the point nearest to Britain. Boulogne might perhaps have been a more convenient place for embarking cavalry.
I. A Letter from John Gage, Esquire, Director, to Hudson Gurney, Esq. Vice President, &c. accompanying a Plan of Barrows called the Bartlow Hills, in the parish of Ashdon, in Essex, with an account of Roman sepulchral relics recently discovered in the lesser Barrows
Authors: Gage John
Published: June 2012

At the north-eastern extremity of the parish of Ashdon, in Essex, are certain artificial mounds, a plan of which I have the honour to lay before you. They consist, as you will observe, of a line of four greater Barrows, and of a line of three smaller Barrows, at the distance of between seventy and eighty feet in front of the others. The situation of these mounds is remarkable; they stand on a gentle acclivity in face of Bartlow church, the country gradually rising round them like an extended amphitheatre. Between the hills and the church, is a hollow to the north, down which runs a little brook that divides the parishes of Ashdon and Bartlow, forming the boundary of the counties of Essex and Cambridge. Though the hills do not belong to the parish of Bartlow, which is in Cambridgeshire, nor to the hamlet of Bartlow, which is in Essex, still, from the received interpretation of the Saxon word Low a Barrow, it is clear that they give name to the place, a proof of their antiquity. Ashdon church stands considerably more than a mile distant, and is not visible from the hills.
IV. Copies of Original Papers, illustrative of the Management of Literature by Printers and Stationers in the middle of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary, in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T., President
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

Amongst the Documents, Letters, and Records of different kinds, presented to Queen Elizabeth's favourite Minister, Lord Burghley, and now preserved in the British Museum, there are a few, chiefly in the form of Memorials and Petitions, which throw some partial light upon the History of the Literature of that period; at least upon the mechanical management of it among the Printers of the day.
VI. Proclamation of Henry the Eighth on his Marriage with Queen Anne Boleyn; in the possession of the Corporation of Norwich: Communicated by Hudson Gurney, Esq. V.P., in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Gurney Hudson
Published: June 2012

I Inclose you a Copy of Henry the Eighth's Proclamation on his Divorce from Katherine and his Marriage with Anne Boleyn, which is in the possession of the Corporation of Norwich.
VIII. Observations to prove Filey Bay, in Yorkshire, the Portus Felix, or Sinus Salutaris; and Flamborough Head, the Ocellum Promontorium, of the Romans; by John Walker, Esq. of Malton
Authors: Walker John
Published: June 2012

In the year 1821 a respectable gentleman, Thomas Thompson, Esq. of Cottingham Castle, published “Ocellum Promontorium, or short Observations on the ancient state of Holderness.” In page 8 of those Observations he says, “in Horsley's Map of Ptolemy's Geography, in which are inserted the names of the British tribes, we find marked on the promontory Ocellum, the name Parisi, and there is no doubt that such was the name of the inhabitants of that promontory at the invasion of the Romans,” and for his authority quotes Whitaker's History of Manchester.
XII. Observations on Dracontia; Communicated by the Rev. John Bathurst Deane, M.A., F.S.A., in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Deane John Bathurst
Published: June 2012

The introductions which you kindly procured for me to the Authorities in Britany having enabled me, through the assistance of Mr. Vicars, a professional surveyor of Exeter, to complete a Plan of the Druidical Temple of Carnac, I have great pleasure in requesting you to lay it before the Society of Antiquaries, together with the following Observations on Dracontia. In these observations there is little of novelty; but I have adopted this method of introducing my remarks upon Carnac, because by it I can convey with greater ease and clearness my sentiments on the figure and dedication of this Sanctuary.
V. Sir Gilbert Talbot's Narrative of the Earl of Sandwich's Attempt upon Berghen in 1665: Communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. President
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

On the last evening of the Society's meeting I had the honor to communicate to your Lordship a Narrative of the Venetian tender of Assistance to King Charles the First in his Civil Wars, written by Sir Gilbert Talbot. I have now the honor to lay before the Society another Narrative by the same hand, relating to the unfortunate Attempt upon the Dutch Ships in the Harbour of Berghen in Norway, by a Detachment from the Earl of Sandwich's Fleet, in 1665. A copy of it is preserved in the Harleian Manuscript, No 6859. It shows very distinctly with whom the scheme of seizing the Dutch ships originated, and gives the true history of a defeat which has been represented in different lights by our Historians, of whom Hume is probably the most at fault. He ascribes to the King of Denmark a larger share of perfidy than was his due.
XI. “Itinerarium Johannis Regis Angliæ.” A Table of the Movements of the Court of John King of England, from his Coronation, May 27th, A.D. 1199, to the end of his Reign: selected from the Attestations of Records preserved upon the Rolls in the Tower of London, by Thomas Duffus Hardy, Esq. F.S.A. Communicated in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Hardy Thomas Duffus
Published: June 2012

Should you consider the enclosed Paper to be of sufficient interest, and worthy of the attention of the Society of Antiquaries, you will oblige me by presenting it to them.

Though during the reign of King John several events transpired of sufficient importance to render it highly interesting, our historians have taken but little labour to clear that period from the obscurity in which it is involved. My endeavour in this is to dissipate the clouds which have so long overshadowed this portion of our history:

“Clara—præpandere lumina menti,

Res quibus occultas penitus convisere possis.”

I shall commence by noticing some particulars, which will, I flatter myself, render it alike valuable to the Historian and the Antiquary.
XIX. Account of some British Coins found near High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, in 1827; by John Norris, Esq. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Norris John
Published: June 2012

I beg to trouble you, as Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries (of which I have long been an unworthy member), with drawings of five Coins, which I conceive to be ancient British, and which have been lately found, very accidentally, near High Wycombe, Bucks. These five coins, with six others, were found by a miller's boy upon a place called Keep-hill, in the parish of Chipping Wycombe, about half a mile from the town. The boy was sent to the spot, which is very near the mill, to look after his master's sheep, and happening to take up a flint, to grub at a fresh mole track, two of the coins fell out of a tubular cavity in the flint during the operation, and upon examination, nine more were found within, the whole of which the boy brought to his master's house, where they remained some days, till the boy's father, hearing of the discovery, got possession of them and carried them about for sale. They are of gold, about the tenth of an inch thick, the obverse concave, the reverse convex; they weigh about 3½ pennyweights, and are of the size represented. Tubular flints, similar to the one in which these coins were found, are very common in this stoney soil, and certainly, if a person wished to conceal his treasure, he could hardly hit upon a less suspicious receptacle. There are remains of artificial ditches still visible above Keep-hill, and I think it may fairly be presumed to have been a British strong-hold.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF AMOMUM (ZINGIBERACEAE) FROM WESTERN GHATS, INDIA
Authors: Thomas V. P. , Sabu M.
Published: June 2012

Two new species of Amomum, A. agastyamalayanum V.P.Thomas & M.Sabu and A. newmanii M.Sabu & V.P.Thomas (Zingiberaceae), from the Western Ghats of Kerala are described and illustrated. Their distribution, ecology, IUCN status, etymology and similarities to related taxa are also discussed.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE VEGETATION OF MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL. V.* CHANGES IN THE WOODY SPECIES DIVERSITY OF A FOREST IN THE CERRADO–AMAZONIAN FOREST TRANSITION ZONE AND NOTES ON THE FORESTS OF THE REGION
Authors: Mews H. A. , Marimon B. S. , Ratter J. A.
Published: June 2012

The changes in floristic composition, richness, species diversity and ecological groups of a semideciduous seasonal forest located at 14°49′32″S 52°06′20″W in the Cerrado–Amazonian Forest transition, in the area of Nova Xavantina, eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil, were determined between 2003 and 2008. Sixty permanent plots of 10 × 10 m were established, where the individuals with diameter at breast height (dbh) ≥ 5 cm were recorded and identified. The changes in floristic composition over the period were small and species losses and gains were limited to those of low abundance. The species richness and diversity did not change during this period and observations over a longer period will be necessary to determine whether it is a static community or in a succession towards the relatively nearby Amazonian forests. A review of existing works on the transition forest of Mato Grosso is also given.