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XVII.—On some of the Weapons of the Celtic and Teutonic Races. By John Yonge Akerman, F.S.A., Secretary
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: June 2012

In submitting the following remarks to the Society of Antiquaries, I must, at the outset, declare that my object is rather to review the evidence we possess, than to offer any conjecture or theory of my own. It will be by all allowed, that the careful bringing together of facts already known, but scattered and disconnected, must, at all times, tend to assist archaeological research, and save the trouble and tedium of referring to detached notices bearing on the subject of our inquiry.
XVIII.—Observations upon certain Documents relating to William first Earl of Gowrie, and Patrick Ruthven, his fifth and last surviving son, in a Letter addressed by John Bruce, Esq. Treasurer S.A., to Sir Charles G. Young, Garter, F.S.A.
Authors: Bruce John
Published: June 2012

When I some time ago addressed a paper to the Society of Antiquaries upon the subject of the death of William first Earl of Gowrie, and the bearing of that sacrifice to injustice upon what I believe to have been the conspiracy entered into by his sons John and Alexander in the year 1600, I was not aware that there exists, in the person of Colonel Stepney Cowell, a present representative of the last male descendant of that most unhappy family. Since the publication of my former paper, I have, by your kind introduction, been brought into acquaintance with that gentleman, whom I have found extremely zealous for the honour of his unfortunate ancestors. He takes an entirely different view of the Gowrie conspiracy from myself; but, with a liberality which proves the sincerity of his own convictions, as well as his desire for the discovery of the truth, whatever it may turn out to be, he has not only allowed me to inspect his family papers relating to the Gowries, but has given me permission to make some of them the subject of an additional communication to the Society of Antiquaries.
I. A Letter from John Gage Rokewode, Esq., F.R.S., Director, to Hudson Gurney, Esq., F.R.S., Vice President, with an Account of the final Excavations made at the Bartlow Hills
Authors: Rokewode John Gage
Published: June 2012

In 1832 I had the honour of addressing you on the occasion of the first excavation made by Lord Maynard at the Bartlow Hills. These hills were represented by me to consist of a line of four greater barrows, and of a line of three smaller barrows in front of the others; and I acquainted you that we then opened the three latter, and that, in each, we found a variety of Roman sepulchral objects.
V. A Letter addressed by Charles Roach Smith, Esq., F.S.A., to John Gage Rokewode, Esq., F.R.S., Director, on an ancient enamelled Ouche, in Gold
Authors: Smith Charles Roach
Published: June 2012

I now proceed to submit to you some remarks on the presumed Saxon Fibula or Ouche, which I had the pleasure to exhibit last year to the Society. (Plate X.)
XIII. On the Death of Eleanor of Castile, Consort of King Edward the First, and the Honours paid to her Memory. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.
Authors: Hunter Joseph
Published: June 2012

The Society has already published, in the third volume of the Vetusta Monumenta, engravings of the three Crosses which alone remain of the twelve that were erected by the King in memory of his Queen. An historical discourse is also there given on the circumstances under which these beautiful structures were erected, the work of Mr. Gough, assisted by Sir Henry Englefield. This discourse contains nearly every thing which was then known on the subject, and has been the source from whence later accounts have been derived. What I now propose to do is to make some material additions to what was then known on the subject, and to correct some important misconceptions; and, in doing this, to make some small addition to the knowledge we possess concerning the arts and artists of the period, and particularly to assert for England, against Walpole and others, the claim of having produced by the hands of native artists most of the beautiful works of sculpture and architecture which are connected with the name and memory of this Queen.
XXII. Observations on further Roman Remains discovered in London. 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

In continuation of my accounts of discoveries of Roman Remains in the City of London, those recently made on the site of the Royal Exchange now demand our attention.
XIV.—On the Condition of Britain from the descent of Cæsar to the coming of Claudius, accompanied by a Map of a portion of Britain in its ancient state, shewing the finding of Indigenous Coins. By John Yonge Akerman, Esq. F.S.A. Secretary
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: June 2012

I purpose, with the indulgence of the Society, to discuss an early chapter in the history of Britain; to examine the evidence we possess of the progress of civilisation among our primitive ancestors during the first half century of the Christian era, and thus to investigate the probable condition of this island previous to its becoming a Roman province.
XVIII.—Defence of Sir Ferdinando Gorges against a Charge of having betrayed Robert Earl of Essex. With a Letter from John Bruce, Esq. Treas. S.A., to J. Payne Collier, Esq. V.P.S.A.
Authors: Bruce John
Published: June 2012

Among the many striking incidents which occurred during the trial of Robert Earl of Essex, in 1601, none seem to have more strongly attracted the attention of the people than those which relate to the evidence and conduct of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. The testimony of Sir Ferdinando excited the impetuous Earl much more than the ungenerous selfishness of Bacon, and almost as much as the vituperation of Sir Edward Coke, or the sudden interference of Sir Robert Cecil. When I first heard, Mr. Vice-President, that you were engaged upon a life of the Earl of Essex, you may remember that I mentioned to you, that there existed in the Cotton Collection of MSS. a paper written by Sir Ferdinando, purporting to be his defence against the popular clamour raised against him for his conduct towards the Earl. I should have preferred that you should yourself have been the first to print this paper in your forthcoming work; but, upon your assurance that it will be more agreeable to you that I should communicate it to the Society of Antiquaries, I now send you a transcript of it, and will thank you to lay it before the Society. I shall accompany it with a comparatively brief comment, in the hope that the whole subject will shortly be fully treated by yourself.
XXIV.—Letters from a Subaltern Officer of the Earl of Essex's Army, written in the Summer and Autumn of 1642; detailing the early movements of that portion of the Parliament Forces which was formed by the Volunteers of the Metropolis; and their further movements when amalgamated with the rest of the Earl of Essex's Troops. Communicated by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Director, in a Letter to the Viscount Mahon, President
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

Four or five years ago, whilst making some researches in the State Paper Office relating to the time of Charles I., I met with a short succession of Letters from a person of the name of Nehemiah Wharton, addressed to his then late master and honoured friend Mr. George Willingham, merchant, at the Golden Anchor in St. Swithin's Lane. A few of these Letters, which I then, and some which I have since transcribed, I now lay before your Lordship and our Society. They form a graphic illustration of the historical incidents of Butler's celebrated poem, and detail the more than wretched condition under which our country suffered throughout the confused period of the Great Rebellion, wherever the rival forces came, whether to plunder or to protect the unfortunate inhabitants. Another feature in these Letters is the strange and ceaseless union of outrage with religion. Atrocities of the worst kind were constantly followed by “a famous,” “a worthy,” “a godly,” or “a heavenly sermon,” preached by one or other of the spiritual trumpeters of the time, who inflamed the population. After pillaging Sir Robert Fisher's house, near Coventry, on the next day, the soldiers “kept the Fast and heard two Sermons.” Before the third was ended they had an alarm to march.
XXXII.—Extracts from Accounts of the Churchwardens of Minchinhampton, in the County of Gloucester, with Observations thereon. By John Bruce, Esq. Treas. S.A.
Authors: Bruce John
Published: June 2012

An opportunity having been afforded me of inspecting a collection of old churchwardens' accounts, I have made some extracts from them, which I beg leave to submit to this Society.

The importance of this class of historical evidences has been long universally admitted. Illustrations of manners and customs, information as to prices and comparative values, and interesting facts in history, topography, and biography have been derived from these humble records. The present accounts differ in some respects from those which have been already published, and, although certainly not to be compared in point of interest with one or two of the most important, they will not, I think, be deemed unworthy of consideration.
XXXIII.—Notices of the Last Days of Isabella, Queen of Edward the Second, drawn from an Account of the Expenses of her Household. By Edw. A. Bond, Esq. Egerton Librarian in the Department of MSS. British Museum
Authors: Bond Edw. A.
Published: June 2012

The narrative of the deposition and murder of King Edward the Second, as delivered by both early chroniclers and recent historians, so far fails to realise the full interest of its subject, that it leaves in obscurity the subsequent history of the chief mover of those fearful events. The ambitious Mortimer expiates his crimes on the scaffold. Isabella, the instigator of sedition against her king, the betrayer of her husband, survives her accomplice; but, from the moment that her career of guilt is arrested, she is no more spoken of. The name which had before been so prominent, and had moved in us such deep and changing interest, disappears at once and entirely from the narrative. It is briefly intimated that the fallen Queen passed the remainder of her days in seclusion, and we can only speculate in what spirit she bore her humiliation and met the reproaches of her conscience in her long retirement; how far her withdrawal from public life was compulsory; and whether, or to what extent, she recovered her influence over the son she had so inhumanly set against his father. After mentioning the execution of Mortimer, Froissart proceeds to tell us that “the King soon after, by the advice of his Council, ordered his mother to be confined in a goodly castle, and gave her plenty of ladies to wait and attend on her, as well as knights and esquires of honour. He made her a handsome allowance to keep and maintain the state she had been used to, but forbade that she should ever go out or shew herself abroad, except at certain times, when any shows were exhibited in the court of the castle. The Queen thus passed her time there meekly, and the King, her son, visited her twice or thrice a year.” All that was added to this account by later historians was, that Castle Rising was the place of her confinement; that after the first two years the strictness of her seclusion was relaxed; that she surrendered her dowry into the King's hands, and received from him, in lieu of it, manors and rents of the yearly value of, at first, 3,000l. and, subsequently, 4,000l.; that she died at Castle Rising, on the 22nd of August, in the year 1358, and was buried in the church of the Grey Friars, within Newgate, in the city of London.
I.—Description of a Statue of Minerva Custos, and other Roman Antiquities, recently discovered on the estate of the Duke of Bedford, at Sibson and Bedford Purlieus, in the county of Northampton: in a Communication from the Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne, M.A., to Thomas Amyot, Esq., F.R.S., Treasurer
Authors: Hartshorne Charles Henry
Published: June 2012

The antiquities I have the honour, by the Duke of Bedford's permission, of transmitting an account of to the Society of Antiquaries, were found on two different parts of his Grace's estate during the spring of the years 1844 and 1845. Those to which the attention will be directed first are two small statues, with a sepulchral amphora and its contents, discovered together at the earlier period, by some labourers whilst they were engaged in cutting a drain betwixt Wansford and King's Cliffe, and upon the western side of an extensive wood, called Bedford Purlieus. From the proximity of this spot to the Ermine Street, to Castor, Alwalton, and Chesterton, places whose names alone are indicative of Roman possession, and whose soil has at various times disclosed abundant memorials of this early occupation, it might not unreasonably be expected that similar evidences would be extensively scattered throughout the district. The direct trending of the road by the side of which these remains were discovered, renders it far from improbable that it was one of those vicinal ways that fed the great military one traversing this part of England; and that funeral memorials should have been placed in such a locality is a circumstance far from unusual.
III.—Inedited Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria and Oliver Cromwell. Communicated by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Wright Thomas
Published: June 2012

It is perhaps not generally known that the different archives of France are full of documents of the greatest interest to English history, many of them dating back to a remote period when such documents are less common than in more recent times. The archives of the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, by far the most difficult of access to foreigners, is especially rich in records of different kinds relating to the affairs of this country during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and in a recent visit to Paris I obtained, through a friend, copies of a few letters of Henrietta Maria (the Queen of Charles I.) and of Oliver Cromwell, which you may perhaps think worthy to be laid before the Society.
V.—A Description of the Ruins of the Church of Mạ́rtula Máriam, in Abessinia. By Charles T. Beke, Esq., Ph. D., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., Corresponding Member of the Geographical Society of Paris
Authors: Beke Charles T.
Published: June 2012

The following description of the Church of Mạ́rtula Máriam in Abessinia, built by the Empress Helena in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and restored by the Jesuits in the century following, the ruins of which were discovered by me during my recent journey in that country, may perhaps be considered of sufficient interest to be submitted to the Society of Antiquaries.
VI.—Observations on the Monumental Inscription to Richard Grey, Lord Grey de Wilton, in the Chapel of Eton College, Bucks. By Thomas William King, Rouge Dragon, F.S.A., in a Letter to William Bromet, M.D., F.S.A.
Authors: King Thomas William
Published: June 2012

I send you, according to promise, a few remarks on the interesting brass and inscription which you exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries at their last meeting,
XIII.—Remarks on Matilda, Queen of William the Conqueror, and her Daughter Gundrada. By W. H. Blaauw, Esq., M.A.
Authors: Blaauw W. H.
Published: June 2012

The Observations of Thomas Stapleton, Esq. F.S.A., in No. 9 of the Archæological Journal, purporting to be “in Disproof of the pretended Marriage of William de Warren with a daughter of the Conqueror,” contain so much curious matter relating to the early locations in Normandy of some families afterwards belonging to English history, that the reader may have failed to notice how little of such disproof there really is in the numerous extracts from Chronicles and MSS., however interesting, brought forward by that able antiquary.
XIV.—Direction for the Receiving of the Corpse of Elizabeth Queen of Henry VII. by the Lord Mayor and Commonalty of London. From the Archives of the City of London. Communicated by Thomas Lott, Esq., F.S.A.
Authors: Lott Thomas
Published: June 2012

A Direccion takyn for the receyvyng of the Corps of the Most Noble Princes Quene Elizabeth.
XXI. A Letter from Edward Hawkins, Esq. F.R.S. & S.A. to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. F.R.S., Secretary, with an Account of some Saxon Pennies, and other Articles, found at Sevington, North Wilts
Authors: Hawkins Edward
Published: June 2012

In January 1834 labourers employed in making a deep drain upon a farm in the occupation of Mrs. Gough at Sevington, in North Wilts, found some Saxon Pennies, nearly seventy, it is said, in number.

They were buried between two and three feet deep, in the middle of a meadow, where there was no trace of buildings; and appeared to have been deposited in a box, of which there were some decayed remains.
XXIII. A Letter from John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary, accompanying a Roman Speculum, exhibited by Sir William Middleton, Bart.
Authors: Gage John
Published: June 2012

The Roman Speculum exhibited, was, in December 1823, found on property belonging to Sir William Middleton, in the parish of Coddenham, in Suffolk. This elegant little ornament was brought to light by a labourer at work in an inclosure near the banks of the river Gypen, and with it were found a brown earthenware urn containing burnt human bones, and a small vessel of red pottery.
XXI. Account of the Ceremonial of the Marriage of the Princess Margaret, sister of King Edward the Fourth, to Charles, Duke of Burgundy, in 1468: communicated to the Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.S.A., and, with his permission, by the Central Committee of the Institute to the Society of Antiquaries
Authors: Phillipps Thomas
Published: June 2012

The Manuscript, from which the following description is taken, is conjectured to have belonged to one of the Wriothesleys, afterwards Garter, King of Arms, and seems to have been written at different times, during the reigns of Edward IV., Richard III., Henry VII., and Henry VIII. It is a quarto volume, of about two hundred leaves of paper, and contains miscellaneous entries on heraldic affairs, but chiefly Lists of Knights, and Coats of Arms.
XXIV. Observations on the Origin and History of the Badge and Mottoes of Edward Prince of Wales. By Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G., in a Letter addressed to Hudson Gurney, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President
Authors: Nicolas Nicholas Harris
Published: June 2012

So much interest has been felt in the origin and history of the Badge and Mottoes of the Prince of Wales—The Ostrich Feathers, “” and “,” that they have been treated of by many able antiquaries; from the learned Camden in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to the Messrs. Nichols, Willement, and Planché, in the present day.
XXV. Transcripts of Three Papers from Manuscripts in the British Museum: communicated in a Letter from Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary, to W. R. Hamilton, Esq. V.P.
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

In the absence of other communications, I beg to lay before our Society, through your hands, transcripts of two or three papers, each having some interest in their contents.

The first relates to the purchase of chantry lands by the corporate bodies of the city of London.

The second is a letter of a priest to the Earl of Arundel, in 1588, whom he had falsely accused whilst undergoing the punishment of the rack in the Tower.

The third relates to the state and affairs ecclesiastical of the isles of Guernsey and Jersey from the Reformation to the time of James the First.
XXIX. Letter from John Winter Jones, Esq. of the British Museum, to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. Secretary, upon the discovery of two rare Tracts in the Library of that Institution, hitherto unknown, from the Press of William Caxton
Authors: Jones John Winter
Published: June 2012

In the course of my labours at the British Museum, a volume came recently into my hands containing two tracts: the first, “Meditacions sur les Sept Pseaulmes Penitenciaulx;” the other, a French version of the “Cordiale, sive de quatuor Novissimis.” It became my duty to ascertain all the typographical particulars relating to these works, as they had been hitherto but partially described in the Museum Catalogue; and I was much struck, in the course of my inquiry, by the resemblance between the types with which they are printed, and those used by the first English printer. A closer examination has led me to the conclusion that they are actually the production of Caxton's press. The “Meditacions” are printed in the same character as the French and English Recueil of the Histories of Troy, and the first edition of the Game of Chess. The Cordiale is printed in the same type as the English version of the same work, made by the unfortunate Antony Widvile Earl Rivers; the Propositio clarissimi Oratoris Magistri Johannis Russell, the second edition of the Game of Chess, the first edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Mirrour of the World, and several other pieces, printed by Caxton.
XXXII. Account of Two Leaden Chests, containing the Bones, and inscribed with the Names, of William de Warren and his wife Gundrada, founders of Lewes Priory in Sussex, discovered in October, 1845, within the Priory precinct. By W. H. Blaauw, Esq.
Authors: Blaauw W. H.
Published: June 2012

It is well known that the coffin-shaped tomb of Gundrada, finely sculptured in black marble, probably a limestone found in Britany in Dr. Mantell's opinion, was discovered in 1775 in Isfield Church, five miles from Lewes, forming the upper slab of the monument of Edward Shirley, cofferer to Henry VIII. who died in 1558; and Sir William Burrell removed it to Southover Church in Lewes, where, after seventy years' interval, her bones and coffin, as well as those of her husband, have now been brought. The sandstone slab, which was substituted on the Shirley monument, is five feet five inches and a half long; and as Gundrada's monument has been broken off at five feet four inches, it may be suspected that the Shirleys broke off the twelve or fourteen inches, wanting to complete it, in order to adapt it to the space required.
IV.—The Lineage of Sir Thomas More. By Edward Foss, F.S.A.
Authors: Foss Edward
Published: June 2012

It cannot have escaped the observation of every person interested in the life of Sir Thomas More, that his biographers, though one of them married his daughter, and another was his great-grandson, are almost entirely silent as to the family from which he sprung. In their statements upon this subject, they ascend no higher than Sir Thomas's father, Sir John More; he being no less a person than one of the superior judges; holding that dignity, too, for a space of at least twelve years, and not dying till after his son had been elevated to the highest legal position in the kingdom.
IX.—An Account of Excavations on the Site of some Ancient Potteries in the Western District of the New Forest: by John Yonge Akerman, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: June 2012

In the spring of the past year I received information from my friend the Reverend J. Pemberton Bartlett of the discovery of what appeared to be the site of potteries during the Roman possession of Britain, in the western district of the New Forest. Mr. Bartlett, at the same time, forwarded a hamper of the shards which had been turned up, and also a number of vessels which he had succeeded in obtaining by excavations on the spot. These examples were exhibited to the Society, and excited much speculation among those members who had made the subject of Roman fictile ware their study. At a subsequent period I had the gratification of exploring the localities, and in the succeeding autumn I again paid a visit to the Forest in company with my friend, whose zeal for the acquisition of all possible intelligence regarding these remains I cannot too much commend. But I must give, in his own words, the particulars relating to the discovery, and his account of repeated visits to the spot, which were continued until the close of the past year.
XIII.—Observations on the Origin of the Division of Man's Life into Stages. By John Winter Jones, Esq. Assistant Keeper of the Department of Printed Books in the British Museum. In a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Jones John Winter
Published: June 2012

The name of Shakspere appears to be so inseparably connected with the Seven Ages of Man in the minds of most persons, that few have thought of inquiring how much of this charming creation is really his own. Not that the division of human life into periods or stages is so deeply philosophical that the idea might not occur to many of even ordinary capacity, but the form in which our great poet has presented to us man's course from the cradle to the grave is so beautiful and graphic, so completely his own, that it is hardly matter for surprise that the subject should have been allowed to rest almost entirely unexplored. It certainly would have remained untouched by myself, had it not happened that the Museum has acquired an extremely curious wood-engraving of the Seven Ages of Man, executed about the middle of the fifteenth century. Believing this print to be of sufficient interest and importance to be communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, I have been led to make some inquiries into the subject of it. My researches have carried me further back than I had anticipated.
XXV. Letter from Capt. Evan Nepean, R.N., to Samuel Birch, Esq., upon that part of Mr. Birch's Report upon the Antiquities discovered in the Island of Sacrificios, in which Mr. Birch considers the different objects assembled to have been the work of the Aztecks or Mexicans. Communicated to the Society by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Nepean Evan
Published: June 2012

I am just recovering from an attack of illness, or I would certainly have sooner acknowledged your kind attention in sending me six copies of your report on my Collection from Sacrificios, for which I beg to return you my best thanks.

Your observations on the whole coincide with my own preconceived opinions, with the exception of what I consider one of its most important points; I allude to the antiquity of the collection, which you consider to have been the work of the Aztecks, or comparatively modern Mexicans, of the period of the Conquest by Cortez. You will I hope excuse me if I differ from you in this respect, and that you will permit me to make the following observations thereon. I premise by stating, that by far the greater portion, and indeed the best of the specimens, were found at a depth of from ten to fourteen feet in rich dark soil; my objections, therefore, to your view of the case is principally founded on the geology of the island of Sacrificios.
XXXV. On an Amity formed between the Companies of Fishmongers and Goldsmiths of London, and a consequent Participation of their Coat-armour. By John Gough Nichols, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Nichols John Gough
Published: June 2012

The constitution and regulations of ancient guilds and commercial fraternities afford a subject which, it has been admitted, is deserving of greater investigation than it has hitherto received, as a branch of the social history of our ancestors. It is evident that they were institutions in the nature of benefit societies, affording a community of religious as well as secular advantages, and bound together by private laws to maintain the interests and the mysteries of their crafts. Though usually in large cities confined to the members of a particular trade, a guild sometimes comprehended the workmen of several occupations.
II. Observations on the Round Church Towers of Norfolk; and on the material employed in constructing the early religious Buildings in that County. By Mr. Samuel Woodward, of Norwich, in a Letter addressed to Hudson Gurney, Esq. V.P.
Authors: Woodward Samuel
Published: June 2012

In consequence of the conflicting opinions entertained respecting the origin of the Circular Towers of Churches, I have been led to ascertain their proportional number in Norfolk; in order to illustrate, if possible, their origin. In doing which, I find that they are more frequent in those parts of Norfolk in which thick beds of diluvial gravel occur; particularly in Clavering hundred (the south-east angle of the County), where they equal in number the square towers: they are found also in the northern part of Suffolk under similar circumstances, and that they are but thinly distributed, or entirely absent, in other counties of England. Their dimensions are small, and many of them have been finished with an octangular top, of comparatively modern workmanship; they are all built with flint boulders, with the exception of that attached to the church of West Dereham, which is of Car-stone; and I have no hesitation in stating my conviction, that they owe their form, not to any peculiar style, but have been thus built from necessity, in consequence of the absence of freestone in the soil; and that the necessity originally influencing the Saxons, extended itself to the Normans, as may be seen in the towers of the parish churches of St. Paul and St. Mary in Norwich, founded after the Conquest.
XVIII. Observations upon a Pair of Caudlesticks and a Pix, both of the twelfth Century, preserved at Goodrich Court in Herefordshire: by Samuel Rush Meyrick, LL.D. F.S.A., in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Meyrick Samuel Rush
Published: June 2012

The great age of a pair of Candlesticks, and a curiously shaped Pix, induces me to presume, that the exhibition of them to the Society of Antiquaries might be attended with some gratification. The former were purchased at Aix-la-Chapelle, at the house of a travelling dealer, so that it is impossible to ascertain their original locality; the latter was bought in London, though a foreign importation.
I. A Dissertation on St. Æthelwold's Benedictional, an illuminated MS. of the 10th Century, in the Library of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire; communicated by John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, in a Letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Aberdeen, President, &c.
Authors: Gage John
Published: June 2012

It was an ancient custom for the Bishop, before he received the Eucharist in the sacrifice of the Mass, to bless the people in a form of prayer apporiate to the feast of the day. This solemn observation was made on the fraction of the host, and as that was the time at which a blessing was asked for the living, so also was it the special moment, when, according to the Anglo-Saxon Mass for the dead, on the day of the burial, the deceased was prayed for, by name.
I. Description of a large collection of Coins of William the Conqueror, discovered at Beaworth, in Hampshire; with an attempt at a chronological arrangement of the Coins of William I. and II. By Edward Hawkins, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S.
Authors: Hawkins Edward
Published: June 2012

On Sunday afternoon, June 30, 1833, as four boys, under ten years of age, were playing at marbles in a small piece of pasture land called the Old Litten, attached to the homestead called the Manor House, in Beaworth, one of them discovered in the track of a waggon-wheel a piece of lead sticking up above the surface; upon stooping down to take hold of it, he discovered a small hole, into which he thrust his hand, and brought out a number of coins, his companions immediately following his example. Though they did not consider their treasure to be more than old buttons, they concealed a part of them in an adjoining potatoe field, and others they took into the village of Beaworth; but treating them as of no value, some they jerked into a pond, and others they flung about the road. Half a dozen villagers who were, as usual upon a Sunday afternoon, congregated in the street, were attracted by the circumstance, and being more aware of the value of the pieces thus discovered, hastened to the spot, and commenced a regular scramble for the booty. As some of the parties obtained possession of many more than others, the parents of the boys who first discovered the treasure became dissatisfied, and appealed on the following morning to Mr. Dunn of Alresford, the owner of the land. This gentleman immediately sent a confidential person to Beaworth, to claim from the parties the delivery of the Coins to him, which was readily complied with, though, it is suspected, not to the full extent, and on the same evening Mr. Dunn received upwards of six thousand Coins.
IX. Narratives of the arrival of Louis de Bruges, Seigneur de la Gruthuyse, in England, and of his Creation as Earl of Winchester, in 1472: Communicated in a Letter from Sir Frederic Madden, K.H. F.R.S., &c. to Hudson Gurney, Esq. Vice-President
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

You may, perhaps, recollect, that after the singular reverse of fortune by which King Edward the Fourth was obliged to leave his crown and kingdom in the hands of the Earl of Warwick, he embarked on the 3d October, 1470, from Lynn, accompanied only by his brother the Duke of Gloucester, the Lord Scales brother of the Queen, the Lord Hastings his Chamberlain, and some few hundred followers; and with this comparatively scanty retinue steered in three small vessels for the dominions of his brother-in-law, the Duke of Burgundy, under whose protection his only hope of safety seemed to lie. So sudden had been the change which reduced the monarch to the condition of an exile, that he had not time even to collect his treasure or wearing apparel, and, in the words of Hall (who here follows the testimony of the contemporary historian Philippe de Comines) he departed “without bagge or bagage, without clothe, sacke, or male!”
XIX. Remembrances for the Apparel, Accoutrements, and Necessaries of Henry Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and his Retinue, preparatory to his joining the English Army in France, in the year 1513; communicated, from a MS. in the College of Arms, by Sir Frederic Madden, K.H. F.R.S. and S.A. in a Letter to Charles George Young, Esq. F.S.A., York Herald
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

The interest attached by all antiquaries to the Household Book of Henry Algernon Percy, fifth Earl of Northumberland, edited by the Bishop of Dromore in 1770, will probably offer a sufficient apology for my troubling the Society, through you, with a Document relating to the same Nobleman, whose magnificence, love of the arts, and patronage of literature, entitle him to the admiration and respect of all acquainted with his character. We are informed by Hall,a the contemporary historian, that in the beginning of the fifth year of King Henry the Eighth, the Earl of Northumberland was one of the noblemen selected to take a part in the expedition then preparing against France, and that he was present at the sieges of Terouenne and Tournay, in the rearward division of the army, under the command of Lord Herbert, Lord Chamberlain, afterwards created Earl of Worcester. This statement is illustrated by an article (communicated by the Earl of Egremont), annexed to the reprint of the Northumberland Household Book in the “Antiquarian Repertory,” vol. iv. second edit, intitled “Equipage of the right honourable Henry Earl of Northumberland, at the siege of Turwin, in France, 5 Henry VIII”b It thence appears, that the King's first letter of summons to the Earl, was dated from Greenwich, 22 Feb. anno regni 4, [1512–13] ordering him to raise 500 men, of which 100 were to be demi-lances on horseback, 300 archers, and 100 bill-men on foot. A second letter was sent on the 13th of April following, signifying the King's pleasure, that the Earl and his retinue sh⊙uld repair to the ports of Dover or Sandwich by the 28th of May; which was immediately complied with, since we know from Hall, that the whole of the troops under Lord Herbert landed at Calais on the 31st of that month. In the same MS. is an account of the “parcels of stuffe” prepared for the Earl and his attendants, which is extremely curious, as it shews minutely the war-equipment of a nobleman of the first rank at this period, and forms a very amusing supplement to the information previously afforded of the same nobleman's style of living in domestic life.
XXIII. Some Account of the Jerusalem Chamber in the Abbey of Westminster, and of the painted Glass remaining therein; communicated by Alfred John Kempe, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Kempe Alfred John
Published: June 2012

Mr. John Swaine, junior (specimens of whose drawings from sepulchral monuments and ancient stained glass I have, on one or two former occasions, had the pleasure of exhibiting to the Society of Antiquaries) has forwarded to my care, for the same purpose, copies which he has recently made of some paintings in stained glass, of an early date, remaining in the north window of the Jerusalem Chamber, within the precinct of the Abbey of Westminster, and which have not, that I am aware, been delineated in any publication descriptive of the antiquities of that place.
XIV. Explanation of a Runic Inscription upon a Jasper Ring: By William Hamper, Esq. F.S.A. In a Letter addressed to Francis Douce, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Hamper William
Published: June 2012

The Runic Inscription on Mr. Cumberland's Jasper Ring, which you have submitted to my consideration, is less difficult in its characters and construction than either that on Lord Aberdeen's Ring, or on any other relique of the same class which you and I have hitherto had the pleasure of discussing.
XVI. Concerning the Identity of the Architectural Remains at Jerash, and whether they are those of Gerasa, or of Pella. By Major Rennell, F.R.S. &c.
Authors: Rennell
Published: June 2012

Some doubt has arisen concerning the identity of the magnificent Grecian Ruins, discovered by Dr. Seetzan, in 1806, at Jerash, situated in the country lying to the eastward of the River Jordan: and whether they are those of Gerasa, or of Pella; two Cities, celebrated in Ancient History.
XXIII. Remarks on the Seals affixed to two Documents preserved in the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer, being Duplicates of the Letter from the Barons of England to Pope Boniface the Eighth, in the year 1301, respecting the Sovereignty of Scotland: By Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Nicolas Nicholas Harris
Published: June 2012

Having lately had occasion to refer to the celebrated Letter written to Pope Boniface the Eighth, by the Barons of this Country, assembled in the Parliament which met at Lincoln in the 29th Edw. I. anno 1301, the series of Plates engraved by order of the Society of Antiquaries in 1729, containing drawings of the Seals affixed to the Documents preserved in the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer, and which it is presumed are official duplicates of the original Letter, necessarily became an object of my attention. Through the kindness of my friend John Caley, Esq. F. R. S. and F. S. A. access has been afforded me to both these Documents, by which I have been enabled carefully to collate the engravings with the Seals as they now exist; and as I believe no remarks on the subject have ever been offered to the Society, I am induced to address to you such observations as a minute examination of them have produced.
XXVIII. Drawings and a Dissertation respecting some Roman Antiquities, discovered on the Line of Antonine's Vallum, since the publication of General Roy's Work: By the Rev. John Skinner, A.M. F.S.A.; in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Skinner John
Published: June 2012

I beg leave, through your assistance, to call the attention of the Society of Antiquaries to an interesting Roman remain which I lately noticed whilst tracing the line of Antonine's Vallum from Bowness to Old Kilpatrick.
XXXIV. Copy of a Plan proposed to Queen Elizabeth by Sir Humphry Gilbert, for instituting a London Academy: in a Letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. President, by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

In the paucity of Communications I take the liberty of placing before your Lordship and the Society of Antiquaries, a Copy of a Plan proposed to Queen Elizabeth by Sir Humphry Gilbert, for instituting what is called a London Academy, that is an University in the Metropolis, upon a scale of considerable magnitude, with no mean pay to the Professors of Learning. My Transcript is made from the manuscript Proposal which was actually presented. It has Lord Burghley's indorsement upon it; but is without date.
XVII. A Letter from John Gage, Esq. Director, to Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary, accompanying extracts from the Household Book of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
Authors: Gage John
Published: June 2012

Thornbury, in Gloucestershire, rebuilt by Edward, Duke of Buckingham, is a remarkable example of the mixed architecture of the Castle and the Hall; in which, as far as the design was carried into execution, military and civil conveniences were happily united. In the book of the survey of the Duke of Buckingham's lands, we have the following general description of the place, at the time of the tragic death of the noble owner.
IV. Account of the Remains of a Roman Bath near Stoke in Lincolnshire: by Edmund Turnor, Esq. F.R. and A.SS.
Authors: Turnor Edmund
Published: June 2012

Mr. Nichols, in his History of Leicestershire, mentions some Roman ruins near Stoke, in Lincolnshire, which were visible in 1670. Being in company with Sir Charles Broke Vere, and having this intimation of Mr. Nichols's in our minds, we dismounted at some rough ground in the hamlet of North Stoke, where there had evidently been buildings, and my friend soon found a piece of tile, which led to the discovery of Roman Baths and very slight vestiges of a Villa.
XIII. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the amount of Booty taken at Cadiz in 1596; with The Charges preferred in consequence by Sir Gelly Meyricke against Sir Anthony Ashley, and The Answers of the former to the Recrimination of the latter; in a Letter from Samuel Rush Meyrick, Esq. LL.D. and F.S.A. to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Meyrick Samuel Rush
Published: June 2012

The kindness of our worthy Member, my friend Mr. Lemon, having brought to my notice a curious document in the State Paper Office, I have, by Mr. Secretary Peel's permission, the honour of laying a copy of it before the Society of Antiquaries. In so doing, I cannot avoid premising the few remarks with which I mean to introduce it, by observing, generally, how valuable this manuscript appears in a statistical point of view.
IMPATIENS MOHANA (BALSAMINACEAE), A NEW SCAPIGEROUS BALSAM FROM WAYANAD, WESTERN GHATS, INDIA
Authors: Ratheesh Narayanan M. K. , Sujana K. A. , Balakrishnan V. , Meera Raj R. , Anil Kumar N.
Published: June 2012

A new species of Impatiens L. (Balsaminaceae) from Wayanad District, Kerala, India, Impatiens mohana Ratheesh, Sujana & Anil, is described, illustrated and compared with I. modesta Wight.
THE GESNERIACEAE OF SULAWESI V: A NEW SPECIES OF RHYNCHOGLOSSUM AND A NEW COMBINATION IN CODONOBOEA
Authors: Kartonegoro A.
Published: June 2012

A new species of Rhynchoglossum, R. capsulare Ohwi ex Karton. (Gesneriaceae), is described and illustrated. This species resembles the widespread Rhynchoglossum obliquum Blume. A new combination, Codonoboea kjellbergii (B.L.Burtt) Karton., is proposed to accommodate the former Henckelia kjellbergii B.L.Burtt.
Review of surrogate modeling in water resources
Authors: Razavi Saman , Tolson Bryan A. , Burn Donald H.
Published: June 2012

Surrogate modeling, also called metamodeling, has evolved and been extensively used over the past decades. A wide variety of methods and tools have been introduced for surrogate modeling aiming to develop and utilize computationally more efficient surrogates of high‐fidelity models mostly in optimization frameworks. This paper reviews, analyzes, and categorizes research efforts on surrogate modeling and applications with an emphasis on the research accomplished in the water resources field. The review analyzes 48 references on surrogate modeling arising from water resources and also screens out more than 100 references from the broader research community. Two broad families of surrogates namely response surface surrogates, which are statistical or empirical data‐driven models emulating the high‐fidelity model responses, and lower‐fidelity physically based surrogates, which are simplified models of the original system, are detailed in this paper. Taxonomies on surrogate modeling frameworks, practical details, advances, challenges, and limitations are outlined. Important observations and some guidance for surrogate modeling decisions are provided along with a list of important future research directions that would benefit the common sampling and search (optimization) analyses found in water resources.
Effect of rare earth substitution in the density of electronic states of LnOFeAs
Authors: García Saravia Ortíz de Montellano A. , Mustre de León J. , Saini N. L. , Bianconi A.
Published: June 2012

Measurements of the Fe K-edge x-ray absorption near edge (XANES) spectra of LnOFeAs (Ln being a lanthanide) high Tc superconductors exhibit significant changes in the pre-edge peak region upon rare earth substitution. Ab initio XANES calculations, based on the local structure centered at the Fe site obtained by crystallographic investigations, reproduce the observed changes in the spectra, indicating variations of the Fe d-local unoccupied electronic states. The calculated Fe density of states (DOS) at the Fermi energy shows an increase of the Fe d-density of states with increasing height of the arsenic atomic position with respect to the iron plane, similar to that observed for the superconducting transition temperature, Tc. These calculations show that not only the atomic position variation of the Fe-As layers induced by the rare earth substitution is relevant in the increase of the DOS at the Fermi-level, but the actual change in electronic configuration of the rare earth also plays a role in the increase of Fe d-density of states at the Fermi energy.
Small coupling limit and multiple solutions to the Dirichlet problem for Yang-Mills connections in four dimensions. II
Authors: Isobe Takeshi , Marini Antonella
Published: June 2012

In this paper, we complete the proof of the existence of multiple solutions (and, in particular, non minimal ones), to the ε-Dirichlet problem obtained as a variational problem for the SU(2)ε-Yang-Mills functional. This is equivalent to proving the existence of multiple solutions to the Dirichlet problem for the SU(2)-Yang-Mills functional with small boundary data. In the first paper of this series this non-compact variational problem is transformed into the finite-dimensional problem of finding the critical points of the function \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}$\mathcal {J}_{\epsilon }(\mathsf {q})$\end{document}Jε(q), which is essentially the Yang-Mills functional evaluated on the approximate solutions, constructed via a gluing technique. In the present paper, we establish a Morse theory for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}$\mathcal {J}_{\epsilon }(\mathsf {q})$\end{document}Jε(q), by means of Ljusternik-Schnirelmann theory, thus complete the proofs of Theorems 1–3 given by Isobe and Marini [“Small coupling limit and multiple solutions to the Dirichlet Problem for Yang-Mills connections in 4 dimensions – Part I,” J. Math. Phys. 53, 063706 (2012)]10.1063/1.4728211.