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XXVI. An Account of a Roman Sepulchre, found near York, in 1768. By John Burton, M.D.
Authors: Burton John
Published: July 2016

In the winter, A. D. 1768, some workmen digging in a piece of ground adjoining to the foot-road from York to Holdgate, lying betwixt that city and Severus's Hills, about 250 yards from the walls, north of the present road to Burrowbridge and Aldburgh, near Severus's Hill, at about two feet depth found they had broke into an hollow place; and hoping to find a sum of money hidden therein, they soon searched it, and found some urns with ashes and earth.
XXX. An Account of an Illuminated Manuscript in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. By the Reverend Mr. Tyson, Fellow of the said College
Authors: Tyson
Published: July 2016

Mr. Vertue, in his account prefixed to the portraits of our kings, says, that “the picture of that most glorious-“prince, Henry V, is preserved in vellum MSS. of that time;” but does not inform us where he met with them. The accurate researches of an ingenious friend in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, have brought to light a very curious resemblance of that illustrious hero. The generality of illuminated portraits, it is true, are not greatly to be depended upon; they are frequently only the imaginary creatures of the illuminator, drawn; with little skill or truth. The disposition of figures, the drawing, the colouring, of this miniature, all shew the hand of an abler master. It appears also, that the book in which this illumination is preserved was originally presented to the king himself, and was afterwards his property. This is another mark of the resemblance being genuine; for it cannot be supposed that the author would have presented the king with so laboured a miniature of his majesty, if he had not been able to procure a real likeness. Besides these proofs of its authenticity, the profile at Kensington, and the figure of the king in the historical picture belonging to Mr. West, are plainly intended for the same person represented in this MS; and no one has yet called in question the genuineness of the two former.
XL. Observations on Mr. Maseres's View of the ancient Constitution of the English Parliament, by Charles Mellish, Esquire. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries
Authors: Mellish Charles
Published: July 2016

I Have read with attention Mr. Maseres's View of the ancient Constitution of the English Parliament; and have received great information from the many ingenious remarks there made on a subject confessedly obscure and intricate.
VI. Account of certain Charter Horns in the Cathedral of Carlisle. By Bishop Lyttelton
Authors: Lyttelton
Published: July 2016

These Horns, as they are improperly called, being certainly the teeth of some very large sea fish, represented in the annexed plate, were given by King Henry I, to the Prior and Convent of Carlisle, when he enfeoffed them with the tythes of all assart lands within the forest of Englewood, to be held per quoddam cornu eburneum, as expressed in the following record. In like manner the keepership of Bernwood forest, together with the manor of Borstal, in the county of Buckingham, were granted in see by King Edward the Confessor; and the manor of Pusey, Berks, by King Canute the Dane, by the delivery of hunting horns, both which are preserved at Pusey and Borstal at this day.
XIII. On the Boundary Stone of Croyland Abbey. By Governor Pownall, M.P. F.R.S.
Authors: Pownall
Published: July 2016

The annexed plate, copied from Dr. Stukeley, represents the boundary cross of Croyland Abbey. It is a very curious monument, and perhaps a singular instance of any such remaining for eight hundred and twenty-five years in the same state and situation; the record of its being so placed continuing and existing at the same time.
XXIV. An historical description of an ancient picture in Windsor-castle, representing the interview between king Henry VIII. and the French king Francis I. between Guînes and Ardres, in the year 1520. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Baronet, V.P.A.S. and F.R.S.
Authors: Ayloffe Joseph
Published: July 2016

The numerous remains of Greek and Roman sculpture now extant, afford incontestable proofs that, in early times, a strong passion prevailed amongst the civilized states of Asia and Europe, for perpetuating and transmitting to posterity, durable and faithful representations of their most memorable transactions, as well as of their customs, civil and religious rites, ceremonies, and triumphs. The like inclination afterward spread itself throughout the west, where the people had no sooner rubbed off the rust of barbarism, then they adopted the ideas, customs, manners, and practice of the more polished nations. Our northern ancestors followed the example; and we find, that it was not unusual with them to represent and perpetuate, either in sculpture, painting, or arras, such transactions, pomps, solemnities, and remarkable events, more especially those which happened in their own times, as they conceived to be either redounding to the national honour and the glory of their monarch; or tending to add a lustre to their own characters and the reputation of their families, from the feveral parts they had respectively acted in those affairs.
XXX. Extract of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. George Low, to Mr. Paton, of Edinburgh. Communicated by Mr. Gough
Authors: Low George
Published: July 2016

The traditions concerning the antiquities of this country are surprisingly vague, and little to be depended on. There are indeed many remains which bear the stamp of the remotest times; such as the burial-places of which I am going to speak and the circles of stones which are still remaining on the mainland; but all that can be gathered is, that they were formerly held in veneration, but for what reason is not to be by their accounts investigated.
XXXVII. Observations on the Corbridge Altars. By the Hon. Dairies Barrington. In a Letter to the President
Authors: Barrington Daines
Published: July 2016

I shewed you, some time since, Mr. Tyrwhitt's very ingenious reading of the inscription an the Corbridge altar, engraved in the second volume of the Archaeologia; which turns out to be the following regular hexameter.
XXXVIII. Observations on the Corbridge Altar described in the second Volume, p. 92. In a Letter to the Hon. Daines Barrington, Vice Pres. from Thomas Morell, D. D. Sec.
Authors: Morell Thomas
Published: July 2016

Habeo sanè unde Societati Antiquariorum, et tibi, vir doctissime, gratuler; quod inscriptionis Corbrigiensis satis vexatae lectionem, Cl. Thomas Tyrwhitt extra omnem dubitationis aleam posuit; et proinde Tu eam magnâ exornasti eruditione. Mihi quidem, fateor, ut et aliis, fidem τῷ exscripto adhibentibus, illud T geminatum, fucum fecit: his verò jam in Π redactis, nihil potest esse planius, nihil certius; quippe, et constructio, et hexameter, jam tandem rectè se habent.
XLIV. A Letter from Sir William Blackstone, Knt. to the Honourable Daines Barrington, describing an antique Seal; with some Observations on its Original, and the two successive Controversies which the Disuse of it afterwards occasioned
Authors: Blackstone William
Published: July 2016

The Seal, which I have the honour to present to the Society through your hands, was found some years ago in pulling down an old house in Oxford. It is made of copper, with a brass handle behind it, which turns down for the convenience of carriage in the pocket. Its breadth is one inch and ⅝, and its length two inches and ¾. Its sides are formed by two segments of a circle, of which the breadth of the Seal is the radius, uniting in a point at the top and bottom. The device is the royal arms, viz. France and England, quarterly; surmounted by an arched crown, and supported by a lion crowned on the right, and by a dragon on the left; in nearly the same attitudes as those stamped on the gold sovereigns of the 34th and 36th of Henry VIII. The dragon evinces this Seal to have been engraved under some of the princes of the house of Tudor; who all used this supporter in memory of their descent from Cadwallader. And its being placed on the left side, and accompanied by a lion (crowned) on the right, seems to fix it to some period betwen A. D. 1542 and 1554, or else to the reign of queen Elizabeth.
XV. Observations on the same Inscription. By Dr. Adee, in a letter to the Rev. Dr. Milles
Authors: Adee
Published: July 2016

I have paid attention to the inscription which you submitted to me. I am sorry I cannot assent to the explanations which other learned gentlemen have offered; neither am I well satisfied with my own. Inscriptions in general, Greek ones particularly, are accompanied with great embarrassments, owing to their shortness, the ignorance of carvers, and the inaccuracy of transcribers and publishers. Few copies are fac similes.
XVII. An Account of the Monument commonly ascribed to Catigern. By Mr. Colebrooke
Authors: Colebrooke
Published: July 2016

In the parish of Addington, near Town Malling, in Kent, about 500 paces to the north east of the church, in a rabbit warren, upon a little eminence, are the remains of several large stones, placed in an oval form. The inside of the area from east to west is 50 paces, the breadth in the middle from north to south 42 paces; at the east end is a flat stone, placed somewhat like that which they call the Altar at Stone Henge: Pl vi. fig. 1. No 1. This stone in the longest part is nine feet, in the broadest seven feet, and near two feet thick. Behind this, a little to the north, is another flat stone, No. 2. which seems to have stood upright, but is now, by some accident, thrown down. This is fifteen feet long, seven feet wide, and two feet thick.
XXII. Observations on Caesar's Invasion of Britain, and more particularly his Passage across the Thames. By the Hon. Daines Barrington. In two Letters, addressed to the late Bishop of Carlisle
Authors: Barrington Daines
Published: July 2016

Having lately had occasion to trouble you with remarks [a] concerning the antiquity of most of the Welsh castles, some of which have been supposed to be the works of the Romans, it naturally occasioned my looking into such ancient writers as have given any account of what passed in this country, from the first invasion by Julius Caesar, to the time it was totally abandoned by the Roman legions.
XXXII. Observations on a Greek Inscription brought from Athens. By Daniel Wray, Esquire
Authors: Wray Daniel
Published: July 2016

I Take the liberty to communicate to the Society an ancient inscription, which I met with some months ago in the possession of Mr Jones, of Finchley, a worthy old gentleman, who is retired from business to a pleasant spot in that village.
XXXIV. Observations on some Tartarian Antiquities, described in the preceding Article. By John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S.
Authors: Forster John Reinhold
Published: July 2016

His Lordship the president having been pleased to desire me to give an account of some Tartarian Antiquities lately discovered in Siberia, and exhibited to the Society by Mr. Collinson; I thought myself happy in having the opportunity of acknowledging the honour the Society had done me in electing me an honorary Member, and likewise of manifesting by this means how desirous I am, not only to merit this honour, but also to discharge a part of my duty.
XLII. Extract of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Bentham, of Ely, to the Dean of Exeter, concerning certain Discoveries in Ely Minster
Authors: Bentham James
Published: July 2016

Give me leave to add the following particulars (by way of additional note to what is said in the History and Antiquities of the Church of Ely, page 85,) concerning the removal of some Bones, in the pious conservation of which our ancestors were pleased to interest themselves, from a grateful remembrance of that beneficence which the persons there mentioned had exercised towards the Religious of this place. These bones had for a long time been immured within the north wall of the late choir. When it became necessary, on account of removing the choir to the east end of the church, to take down that wall, I thought proper to attend, and also gave notice of it to several gentlemen, who were desirous of being present when the wall was demolished. There were the traces of their several effigies on the wall, and over each of them an inscription of their names. Whether their relicks were still to be found was uncertain; but I apprised those who attended on that occasion, May 18, 1769, that, if my surmises were well founded, no head would be found in the cell which contained the bones of Brithnoth, duke of Northumberland. The ground of my expectation in that particular circumstance was the account given by the author of the Liber Eliensis of the unfortunate battle of Maldon in Essex, A. D. 991, that the Danes took away with them the head of that brave warrior. The event corresponded to my expectation.
I. Observations on the Origin of Gothic Architecture, with an Appendix. Communicated by George Saunders, Esq., F.R.S. and F.A.S., in a Letter to The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B., Pr. R.S. and F.A.S.
Authors: Saunders George
Published: July 2016

When in conversation I offered some ideas on the Origin of Gothic Architecture, you were pleased to express a wish that they should be committed to writing. I am sorry that various circumstances should so long have prevented me from presenting the following observations, which, after all the attention other avocations would allow, I am still afraid are not so clear as could be desired. Many of the technical terms in common use, relating to this subject, not being well defined in the English language, I must solicit your indulgence in regard to the notes of explanation which I have occasionally been induced to add: and I beg it to be understood, that the appellation of Gothic is here restricted to that kind of building, in which the covering of a void space is composed of two similar curves meeting together, and forming an angle at the top, usually termed a Pointed Arch.
III. Observations on Vaults. By Samuel Ware, Esq. Communicated by Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Bart. to the Secretary, Nicholas Carlisle, Esq.
Authors: Ware Samuel
Published: July 2016

An inquiry into the different forms of Vaults, and a comparison of their respective merits, by rendering them more familiar to the Architect, may lead to the substitution of them for wooden floors and roofs in many cases, where, in respect of their superior security and durability, and, it may be added, beauty, they would be peculiarly desirable. The changes, which have taken place at certain periods in the forms of Vaults, will in some measure account for the alterations in the styles of architecture, which have characterised different ages; and their genesis will exhibit, perhaps, the most comprehensive and curious examples of the application of geometry.
IV. Translation of a Memoir on the celebrated Tapestry of Bayeux, by the Abbé de la Rue. Communicated by the Translator, Francis Douce, Esq. F.A.S. with a Letter to the Secretary, Nicholas Carlisle, Esq.
Authors: Douce Francis
Published: July 2016

Our learned and worthy member, the Abbé de la Rue, Professor of History in the Academy of Caen, having transmitted to me an interesting Memoir on the celebrated Tapestry of Bayeux, which represents the Conquest of England by the Normans, I have sent you a Translation of it to lay before the Society; and have taken the liberty of adding a few Notes, which I hope will be found appropriate.
XXXIV. Original Papers addressed to K. James I. and K. Charles I. on the subject of the Duke of Buckingham, and Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, communicated by Samuel Lysons, Esq. V.P. F.R.S. in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

The three enclosed original papers were put into my hands a few weeks since by Lord Sinclair at Nisbett house, in Berwickshire, where his Lordship found them, when he became possessed of that ancient seat of the Carr family; these had been carefully preserved, with other family papers, in a small box. The first of them, addressed to King James the first, by whose command it appears to have been written, contains a variety of charges against the Duke of Buckingham; and was probably drawn up by Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, the former favourite, though it is not in his hand writing, being evidently a fair copy made by a secretary. The two other papers addressed to King Charles the first, in favour of the Earl of Somerset, are written in a very neat hand in letters of gold, and both endorsed with the descriptions here prefixed to them, in the Earl's hand-writing.
III. Mr. Henry Yelverton (afterwards Sir Henry) his Narrative of what passed on his being restored to the King's favour [a] in 1609, whom he had disobliged by his freedom of Speech and Conduct in Parliament. Communicated by James Cumming, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Cumming James
Published: July 2016

When by a general and constant report I heard that his Ma˜ty was much offended with me about my speeches and behaviour in parliament, and myself finding the report too true by many particular speeches and actions of the king tending to make his displeasure the more sensible to me, I thought it my duty to use all lawfull means whereby to make my grief known, and my desire seen, which I long had to clear myself, and remove the cloud that had so long obscured his Ma˜ty's favour from me.
VIII. Some Account of an Abbey of Nuns formerly situated in the Street now called the Minories in the County of Middlesex, and Liberty of the Tower of London. Communicated by Henry Fly, D.D. F.R S and F.A.S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand Secretary
Authors: Fly Henry
Published: July 2016

The parish of Trinity in the Minories is on the scite of a religious house, which became parochial on the suppression of the monastery in the reign of Henry VIII. It appears originally to have been a part of the parish of St. Botolph Aldgate, when Blanche, queen of Navarre, (the wife of Edmund duke of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby, brother to king Edward I.) was desirous of signalizing her pious zeal according to the custom of the times by erecting an abbey. In the king's licence.
XVIII. Some Remarks on the different kinds of Trial by Ordeal, which formerly prevailed in England. By Robert Studley Vidal, Esq. In a Letter to Henry Wansey, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Vidal Robert Studley
Published: July 2016

I consider myself flattered by the wish you express of knowing more of the work in which I am engaged, and to which I alluded in my former letter. The subject, from its having much of a professional cast, may perhaps fail to interest you, but since you desire to have the particulars of my plan, I send them to you with the greatest pleasure. Having, in common with many others, had frequent cause to lament that the study of our laws (if meant to be pursued with effect) requires an almost total dereliction of every other pursuit; yet, finding that the mind must have some relaxation, it occurred to me, that by noting down any curious or otherwise remarkable particulars that might meet with respecting the forensic proceedings of early times, a species of amusement might be discovered, which so far from interrupting or impeding my progress in the regular line of study, would in some measure become a stimulus, and render me less attentive to the ruggedness and difficulties of the way.
XXII. Memoir on the Vicissitudes of the Principality of Antioch, during the Crusades. By F. Damiani. Communicated by the Rev. Samuel Henley, A.M. F.A.S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Damiani F.
Published: July 2016

I have the pleasure to transmit to you the following discussion, which contains a very interesting memoir of Antioch during the Crusades. In it the writer, Mr. Damiani, has discovered much accuracy of research and acuteness of conjecture. On these accounts it will obtain the notice of the Society, and, I flatter myself deserve its attention.
XXXVII. Observations on the preceding Paper respecting the remains of Gothic Architecture in Italy, &c. By Sir H.C. Englefield, Bart. F.R.S. and V.P.A.S.
Authors: Englefield H. C.
Published: July 2016

The beautiful drawings by Mr. Smirke, junior, of different fragments of ancient ecclesiastical architecture in the south of Europe, are extremely interesting to every one who has studied that subject; and it is most earnestly to be wished, that such of our artists as travel into Germany and Italy, would give some portion of their time to the collection of specimens similar to those exhibited by Mr. Smirke; the accuracy of which is not less to be admired than the elegance of their execution. In reasoning, however, from such specimens, as to the style of architecture in use at different periods, much caution is requisite, lest repairs and additions of a later date should be confounded with the original structure. Of such additions and mixture of style our own cathedrals afford so many instances that it is needless to particularize any.
III. Account of three unpublished Greek Coins, in Letters from the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S. to the Earl of Leicester, President
Authors: Weston Stephen
Published: July 2016

I have the honour to present to your Lordship and the Society, for their inspection, a curious, unpublished, autonomous, small brass coin of Sala in Phrygia, in fine preservation, of excellent workmanship, and undoubted antiquity. The type of this coin is a bearded, and laureated head, and on the reverse a bunch of grapes with the letters CAΛH very distinct: the NΩN, or termination of the word CAΛHNΩN, is now not visible, owing to the nun, omega, and nun, having been clipped, in order to reduce the size of, the coin, that it might be set as a gem. This we know has been sometimes the case with coins of superior workmanship. The position of Sala was upon the Mænder, between Pylaceum and Gazèna, to the north and south of it, making the boundary of Phrygia towards Lycia. Its longitude, in Mercator's map, is from Ptolemy 60–15, and latitude, which is reckoned, after its longitude, is 38–20. It lies on the river to the west of Mount Taurus, between the Lycus and the Mænder. This Sala, in Phrygia magna, is not mentioned by Stephanus Byzantinus, Strabo, or D'Anville; and, although passed over in silence by these great names in geography, richly deserves to be recorded, were it only for its excellence in the numismatic art, in its free state, and under the government of its own laws.
XIX. Account of a Silver Tetradracm, with Siculo-Punic Characters, by the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A S. In a Letter to the Marquis Townshend of Raynham, and Earl of Leicester, President
Authors: Weston Stephen
Published: July 2016

I have the honour to exhibit to your Lordship and the Society a Silver Tetradracm, in fine preservation, with Siculo-Punic characters, of which the two first, the most material, are sufficiently plain to enable me to determine the name of the town to which the coin belongs, which I never could have done from the plates of Barthelemy and Eckhel; who have both published it, but without satisfying themselves that they have read the inscription right. They indeed have given it to Palermo and Imachara, but as this appropriation must depend upon the letters, I shall show that in my coin it is neither the one nor the other, but Camarina.
XXII. Some Account of the Egyptian Papyrus, and the Mode adopted for unfolding a Roll of the same. Communicated by William Hamilton, Esq. F.A.S. in a Letter to the Secretary
Authors: Hamilton William
Published: July 2016

I have the honor of returning to you the Roll of Egyptian Papyrus, belonging to the Society of Antiquaries; which I have succeeded, not without some difficulty, in unrolling in its whole extent. The circumstance of its having been for some months in salt water occasioned the folds, in many parts of it, to adhere so closely together, that they could only be separated by dipping in boiling water.
XXIX. Some Account of a curious Coin, not described by the Writers on Gadir. In a Letter from the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S. to the President
Authors: Weston Stephen
Published: July 2016

I exhibit to your Lordship and the Society, a Coin never yet published, and not mentioned by any numismatic writer, of Gadir, in silver, weighing one hundred and twelve grains nearly, and in good preservation, and of fine workmanship. On the right side is a head of Hercules, such as we recognise easily to be the Gaditane, or Hercules of Gadir, now Cadix, or Cadiz. On the reverse is a lion passant, of great spirit, and under it ΛΙΒϒΩΝ, and over it the Phœnician Ghimel, or initial letter of Gadir. From all which it may be safely concluded, that this Coin was struck at Gades, by a colony from Africa, which Pliny tells us the Greeks called Lybia, in the beginning of his fifth book; ‘Africam Græci Libyam appellavere;’ and at Cadix, we well know, from a number of copper coins with Phœnician characters, that the Punic language was in use at that place. See an explanation of certain Phœnician coins in the cabinet of Mr. Duane, by L. Dutens, 4to. 1774.
XXXII. An Account of a Coin struck at Cyparissia. In a Letter to the President, by the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S.
Authors: Weston Stephen
Published: July 2016

The next Coin, which I lay before your Lordship and the Society, is also, like the last, unpublished. It is of middle brass, and one of those towns permitted by the Emperors to be autonomous, and live under their own laws. The coins of Cyparissia are mostly imperial, and Sestini says (the best authority for Greek cities) always so; but here is an exception. On the right side is probably a head of Bacchus, with a lock on the foreherd, disposed like a horn, with which that god is represented, ‘Accedant capiti cornua Bacchus eris.’ Behind the head is Roma, in Greek letters. On the reverse is a figure standing, with a branch in its right hand, and a quiver at its back.
XXXIV. Some Observations on the Gothic Buildings abroad, particularly those in Italy; and on Gothic Architecture in general. By T. Kerrich, M.A. F.S.A. Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge
Authors: Kerrich T.
Published: July 2016

By the Gothic I mean the light style of Architecture which has been long known by that name, and was the mode of building most in use, all over Europe, during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries.

When it received this appellation, has been much disputed: Torré intimates that it was first so called by Cesare Cesariani, in his Commentary on Vitruvius. But it seems to have been the custom, upon the revival of antique architecture, and classical learning, to give the name of Gothic, by way of reproach, to every thing in the arts, as well as in literature, which differed from, or was not formed upon ancient models.
XL. A Description of a Font in the Church of South Kilvington. Communicated by Robert Darley Waddilove, D.D. F.A.S. Dean of Rippon. In a Letter to William Bray, Esq. F.A.S. Treasurer
Authors: Waddilove Robert Darley
Published: July 2016

Our worthy Member, the Dean of Rippon, presents to the Society a Drawing of an uncommon and curious Font in the Church of South Kilvington, in Yorkshire, with an account of it.

I am willing to hope that we shall receive from him a farther account of the Minster, over which he so worthily presides, and which well deserves a full description.
V. Observations on Reading Abbey, by Sir Henry Englefield, Bart. F.S.A.
Authors: Englefield Henry
Published: July 2016

The abbey of Benedictine monks at Reading, founded in the year 1121 by Henry the First, rendered still more famous by his and the empress Maud's burial there, was second to few in this kingdom in its wealth, honours, and magnificence. The number of its religious was two hundred; and their abbot, who was a peer of parliament, gave place only to those of Glastonbury and Saint Albans. His abbey answered in stateliness to the rank and consequence he possessed; and a proof of that is, that parliaments and councils have more than once been held in the great hall of the abbey. The shattered and disjointed ruins of the building, which now remain, bear a character of majesty very singular and almost peculiar to themselves. Stript by destroyers of more than ordinary patience and industry, of almost every stone which cased the walls, they still, though built only of small flints, defy the injuries of time and weather, and have more the appearance of rocks than of the works of human hands. My residence in the neighbourhood has given me frequent opportunities of examining these ruins, and the plan and drawings now presented to the inspection of the Society are the result of my enquiries. I make no apology for this communication; it has long appeared to me, that a number of surveys of the different abbies and cathedrals of this kingdom would be a fund of valuable information for those who study the history of architecture in England
XXIII. Observations on the Origin and Antiquity of Round Churches; and of the Round Church at Cambridge in particular. By Mr. James Essex, F.A.S.
Authors: Essex James
Published: July 2016

Though there are but few churches in England built on a circular plan, it has generally been supposed that most of them were built by the Jews for Synagogues; and this opinion has long prevailed at Cambridge, because the round church, a plan of which is herewith annexed, is situate in a part of the town commonly called the Jewry, in which place it is generally believed that the Jews lived together, as they formerly did in that part of London called the Old Jewry ; but as it does not appear from any good authority that the Jews ever occupied this particular part of the town, we must seek some better reason for its being called the Jewry. As the Jews were dispersed into various parts of the world soon after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, it is probable that some of them found the way into Britain while it was subject to the Romans, though we have no certain account of their appearing here under that denomination before the time of William the Conqueror, who gave them great encouragement.
XXV. On the Cubical Contents of the Roman Congius. In a Letter from Henry Norris, Esq.
Authors: Norris Henry
Published: July 2016

I have the pleasure of your sentiments on the little Essay I made to ascertain the cubical contents of the Roman Congius, a copy whereof, in which I have set my name as author, is herewith transmitted to you; and if it may be thought worthy the notice of the Antiquarian Society, do request the favour of you to convey it to them.
II. Derbeiesseira [a] Romana. By the Rev. Mr. Pegge, in a Letter to Richard Gough, Esq.
Authors: Pegge Samuel
Published: July 2016

It has been observed on a former occasion that the county of Derby in the British times constituted a part of that large tribe, the Coritani, or Coitanni, consequently it had then no peculiar provincial name.
V. Further Observations on Cataractonium, and the Parts adjacent. By John Cade, Esq. In a Letter to Richard Gough, Director.
Authors: Cade John
Published: July 2016

Having casually had occasion to recur to the learned Mr. Burton's Commentary on Antoninus' Itinerary through Britain, where at page 53, in quotation from Bede, he tells us, that were we acquainted with the mount called Wilpapes Dun or Wilfares Dun, about ten miles from Cataractonium, we should have little cause to doubt of the true situation of that place; this circumstance attended with an ardent desire to rescue from oblivion a few places mentioned in Bede's Ecclesiastical History, and other authors, induced me take a journey from Greta Bridge to Catterick, and some other parts of Yorkshire and Durham. The result of my observations may, perhaps, be not altogether unworthy of perusal; however, I shall at all events, confide in your wonted candor and humanity.
XI. A Roman Altar inscribed to Belatucader, illustrated by Mr. Gough
Authors: Gough Richard
Published: July 2016

The inclosed inscription which has just been communicated to me by a gentleman who brought it from Cumberland in the course of the last summer, was exhibited to the Society by Major Rooke, and engraved in the Archæologia, Vol. IX. Pl XVII. a.
XIV. Account of Roman Antiquities discovered in the County of Gloucester. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

Plate IX. Fig. 1. A burial urn of glass, found about twenty-five years since, in a field called Kingsmead, about half a mile distant from Cirencester; it was wrapped in lead, and deposited in a stone hollowed out to receive it; it is of a greenish colour, not very transparent, but well-moulded, having several raised circles on its bottom, quite smooth, without any appearance of having ever been fastened to a blowing iron as all modern glass vessels are in the making, which have therefore a rough mark at the bottom, unless they have been afterwards ground smooth. Its diameter at the top is five inches and three eighths, height ten inches and one eighth, and width at the bottom five inches and five eighths. It is in the possesion of C. H. Parry, M. D. of Bath.
XXIII. Observations on an antient Font at Burnham Deepdale, in Norfolk. By the Rev. Samuel Pegge, F. A. S. In a Letter to the Hon. Daines Barrington.
Authors: Pegge Samuel
Published: July 2016

As the Society of Antiquaries formerly thought proper to present to the public a print of the very elegant marble font in St. James's church, Westminster, and another of the famous Bridekirk font, to which many more of the like kind have been added by various authors; I beg leave to bring forward for your inspection and amusement, a drawing, which I believe to be very accurately made, by a young gentleman, of a most curious and singular antient laver, appearing now in the parish church of Burnham-Deepdale in Norfolk.
XXXIV. An Account of the River of Orwell, or Orewell, in the County of Suffolk, and of the Town and Harbour of that Name, by Mr. Myers. Communicated by Mr. Astle, from the Papers of the late Mr. Morant
Authors: Myers
Published: July 2016

Orwell is a river in Suffolk, arising a little to the west of Rattlesdon. It takes in the Gipping a little below Stow, runs by Needham Market and Ipswich, and joining the Stour, that separates Suffolk from Essex at Harwich, forms what is now called Harwich harbour; then passing by Languard fort, and the sand called the Andrews, it discharges itself into the ocean; at the mouth whereof we have strong reasons to suppose there formerly was a very considerable town that took its name from the river, in all probability, and gave its name to Orwell harbour.
XXXIX. A Survey of the Manor of Wymbledon, alias Wimbleton, with the Rights, Members, and Appurtenances thereof, lying and being in the Countie of Surrey, late Parcell of the Possessions of Henrietta Maria, the Relict, and late Queene of Charles Stuart, late King of England, made and taken by us whose Names are hereunto subscribed, in the Moneth of November, 1649, by virtue of a Commission grounded upon an Act of the Commons assembled in Parliament for Sale of the Honors, Manors, and Landes, heretofore belonging to the late King, Queene, or Prince, under the Handes and Seales of five or more of the Trustees in the sayd Act named and appoynted. Communicated by John Caley, Esq. F. A. S.
Authors: Caley John
Published: July 2016

All that capitall messuage, manor, or mancion house, with the appurtenances, commonly called Wimbledon hall, scytuate, lying, and being in the towne and parish of Wymbledon, in the county of Surrey, consisting of one spatious kitchen, seeled over head to the roofe, paved with free stone well joynted, fitted with two large ranges, two dressers one sidebord, one copper boyler leaded round the mouth thereof, one stone morter, one large gridiron fixed to the wall, one stone cestern and two brass cocks for houlding and conveyance of water, one pastrie roome paved with brickes and sealed to the roofe, fitted with a boulting mill, a kneading trough, a moulding board, a double bynne, and a range with severall large ovens; one drie larder paved with brickes and seeled over head, sitted with a press of deale waynscot, three standing boardes upon frames, and one mustard querne; one wett larder paved with bricks, seeled over head, fitted with a salting trough, a chopping block, a stand and tresses, a beame and scales; one fait roome sitted with a great bynne for keeping of salt; landrie roome seeled over head, paved with stone, fitted with a very large cesterne of lead sett in a frame of wood, and a verie sayer range, wherein is a strong barr of iron.
VII. Notices of the Manor of Cavendish, in Suffolk, and of the Cavendish Family while possessed of that Manor. By Thomas Ruggles, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Ruggles Thomas
Published: July 2016

The various opportunities which antiquity gives the genealogist to compliment greatness at the expence of veracity are so obvious, that particular instances to prove the assertion cannot be necessary. The genealogic tree seldom bears any fruit on its branches but such as are fair to the eye of Pride, and pleasant to the palate of Greatness. The arcana of remote times are not protruded upon the view, when they are calculated to give an humble lesson to the pride of ancestry; and, were this not the case, the researches of the antiquary would not in all instances be able, with certainty, to trace a pedigree up to the original founders of families, whose first emersion from obscurity to riches or renown lies hidden by the dust of antiquity, which has been collecting for ages; were it his intention, that truth should predominate, although at the expence of vanity.
XII. An illuminated Letter of Filiation among the Grey Friers. Communicated by Craven Ord, Esq. F.R. and A.SS. In a Letter to the President
Authors: Ord Craven
Published: July 2016

I Beg leave to lay before the Society a curious illuminated letter of filiation from Thomas, brother of the Grey Friers, or Friers Minors, in England, to John Marshall, and Isabel his wife. It bears date I Edw. IV. The following is a copy of the original now exhibited.
XIII. Extract from the Wardrobe Account of Prince Henry, eldest Son of King James I. Communicated by William Bray, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter to Mr. Wrighte, Secretary
Authors: Bray William
Published: July 2016

However little adapted to the views of the Society a tailor's bill may at first appear, perhaps on a second consideration, it may not be thought quite improper for their notice.
XXII. Memoir on the Origin of Printing. Addressed to John Topham, Esq. F.R. and A.SS. By Ralph Willett, Esq. F.R. and A.SS.
Authors: Willett Ralph
Published: July 2016

Your favourable, though perhaps partial, opinion of the following Memoir on the subject of the origin of printing, as also that of another able and respectable friend belonging to our Society, incline me to hope for the indulgence of it in presenting it to their perusal.
XXIII. Observations on Episcopal Chairs and Stone Seats; as also on Piscinas and other appendages to Altars still remaining in Chancels; with a Description of Chalk Church, in the Diocese of Rochester. In a Letter from Mr. Charles Clarke, to the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.A.S.
Authors: Clarke Charles
Published: July 2016

Among the ecclesiastical remains of this country the seats fixed on the South side the chancels of parochial and other churches, having but very lately been honoured with a share in the labours of your pen, I judged you might receive some trifling gratification in being made acquainted that a religious edifice, at a small distance from this place, was decorated with a specimen of these reliques, nearly unique. This information you were not only pleased kindly to accept, but also to favour me, by signifying your desire that I should give an explanation of this and similar appendages. Stimulated by your wishes, and happy in the proposed opportunity of collecting together my scattered notions on these and one or two relative subjects, I am now about to offer to your consideration the best account I have been enabled to obtain, of the uses for which they were designed by our ancestors; and permit me to observe, on the part of my endeavour, that littie or nothing has been hazarded to conjecture, that what ever favoured of mystery, or was any way phantastical, has been as much as possible avoided; and that, as far as they could be had, vouchers of the most genuine worth in such affairs have been consulted and produced: “Authoribus quidem ad istam sententiam, quam vis obtineri, uti optimis possumus: quod in omnibus causis et debet et solet valere plurimum: et primum quidem omni antiquitate; quæ quo propius aberat ab ortu et divina progenie, hoc melius ea fortasse, quæ erant vera, cernebat.”
IV. An Account of some Stone Coffins, and Skeletons, found on making some Alterations and Repairs in Cambridge Castle. In a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Lort. By the Rev. Robert Masters, B. D. F. S. A. Rector of Landbeach
Authors: Masters Robert
Published: July 2016

Well knowing your taste for antiquities in general, and in particular for such as bear any relation to Cambridge, a place to which you have always had a singular attachment, I take the liberty of communicating to you, by the hands of our most respectable friend George Steevens, Esq. a discovery lately made there, and through you to the worthy Society of Antiquaries, of which I have long had the honour of being a member.
V. A second Letter from Mr. Masters to George Steevens, Esq. on the Stone Coffins found in repairing Cambridge Castle
Authors: Masters
Published: July 2016

When I was at Cambridge on Thursday last, Mr. Kerrich and I were summoned to the Castle to the opening of two more stone coffins lying very near the place where those you saw had been deposited, but nearer to the building, with the covering of another, part of which went under the foundation of the old wall of the staircase, so that they seem to have been deposited there before that building was erected. The feet of the coffins were sunk much lower than the heads, which probably occasioned their breaking.
XI. Mr. Willis on the Roman Portway
Authors: Willis Richard
Published: July 2016

The Roman Causeway which runs from the N. E. to the S. W. of the kingdom through Hants and Wilts, is known through those counties by the name of the Portway. If I may be allowed to give this name to those ways in Antoninus's Itinera which run in a North Easterly direction from this road in Hants, and South Westerly from its Wiltshire limit, the Portway is as long as either of the two great ways in longitudinem ; and if it is a Roman way from the Eastern sea coast to Hampshire, and from Wilts to the sea coast West-ward, it would exceed them. That it does so, seems to be referred to in the charter granted by queen Elizabeth to the Borough of Andover, which is on the Portway between London and the Land's-end.
XV. Account of the Discoveries before mentioned, referred to in the preceding Paper. Communicated by Charles Combe, M.D. F.R. and A.S.S. from Mr. John Jackson of Clement's-Lane.
Authors: Jackson John
Published: July 2016

In making a common-sewer along Lombard-street in the autumn of the year 1785 and the following winter, the labourers met with a great number of Romaan antiquities, particularly tesselated pavements and earthen ware. The first pavement that I have heard of was near Sherborn-lane, and was composed of bricks about an inch square, and bedded in very firm mortar. Between this and the Post-office a wall was found perforated perpendicularly by two flues, one circular, the other square. Opposite the Port-office was dug up a foundation (or floor) of common Roman bricks, each about eighteen inches by twelve in size.
I. Observations on an Inscription on an antient Pillar now in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries
Authors: Costard G. , Pizzi Mariane , Woide  , Casiri
Published: July 2016

This pillar of granite, in form of an inverted cone, three feet four inches high, from eight inches I-half to six inches I-half diameter, with an inscription in Oriental characters in six lines, each letter three inches I-fourth high, was brought 1726 from Alexandria, where it was found buried in the sands, and supposed to have served as a tomb stone. It was given by captain Childerston, who brought it to England, to Mr. John Oxley, surgeon in Horsley Down, Southwark. It came afterwards about 1737 or 1738 to Mr. Ames, then living at Wapping; and was purchased after his decease by the late James West, Esq; and on his death by Gustavus Brander, Esq; F.A.S. who has since presented it to the Society of Antiquaries, together with the several papers addressed to Mr. Ames attempting to illustrate and explain its original designation. From these papers the following abstract is here subjoined with additional observations interwoven.
II. Illustration of some Druidical Remains in the Peak of Derbyshire, drawn by Hayman Rooke, Esq. By the Rev. Mr. Pegge
Authors: Pegge
Published: July 2016

The stones marked 1, 2, in plate II. were taken out of the ground about A. D. 1760, in removing a large stone at Durwood near Hartle moor in the Peak; they lay by the side of a large urn, half full of burnt bones. They are flat at top, but somewhat convex on the under sides, and fig. 2. which Mr. Rooke has in his possession, is about four inches and a half thick. They are about a foot diameter, but fig. 2. is so much less than the other, that when laid upon it (and one cannot doubt but they were intended to be placed one upon the other), it could be turned round within the rim of it.
VI. Conjectures concerning some undescribed Roman Roads, and other Antiquities in the County of Durham. In a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Kaye (now Dean of Lincoln) from John Cade, Esq. of Durham
Authors: Cade John
Published: July 2016

Upon the perusal of an Essay on the four great Roman Ways in the sixth volume of Leland's Itinerary, as well as other authors on the subject, I find no satisfactory account has been given of the continuation of the Fosse Way, and Rycknild Street, through the counties of York and Durham; some imagining the former to have terminated at Inverness in Scotland, without describing its course from Lincoln; and we are left in a similar state of uncertainty respecting the latter, which most writers have traced no farther than the borders of Derbyshire; though all seem to agree, that it extended to Tynemouth in Northumberland; where two curious Roman altars have lately been digged up, the drawing of which by my direction have been transmitted to my friend the Rev. Mr. Norris for the inspection of the Society. I shall therefore enter into a discussion of the subject, and submit to you, as concisely as I can, the result of my enquiries, hoping for indulgence wherever your better informed judgement shall differ from me.
XI. A further Account of Discoveries in the Turf Bogs of Ireland. By Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Authors: Edgeworth Richard Lovell
Published: July 2016

I once mentioned to you the coat which my friend Mr. Fox delivers to you with this letter. It was found ten years ago fifteen feet under ground, in a turf bog or peat moss, and along with it many hundred iron heads of arrows, some bowls of beech and alder and other wooden utensils, many of which were unfinished, and two or three sacks full of nuts.
XXIII. Description of a Roman Hypocaust discovered near Brecknock. In a Letter from Mr. Charles Hay to John Morgan, Esq. of Therrow at Tredegar
Authors: Hay Charles
Published: July 2016

Knowing your desire not only for finding out, but preserving every antiquity in South Wales (instance that beautiful tessellated pavement at Caerwent), I beg leave to inform you of a discovery made near this place.
XXIX. Memoir on Hokeday. By the Rev. Mr. Denne
Authors: Denne
Published: July 2016

Hoke, or Hock-day, Hoke, or Hock-tyde, was formerly a season of much festivity in England, but from what cause is still uncertain. In the following pages it is proposed to examine into its origin, and should the result of my enquiry be judged unsatisfactory, I shall not be surprized, the question being left doubtful by Mr. Lambard and Dr. Plott, Dr. Watts and Bishop Kennett, Sir Henry Spelman, and Mr. Bryant. My motive, for attempting this investigation is, that I think I see the subject in one point of view in which it does not appear to have been considered by these intelligent and learned writers.