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II. Observations on an inscription at Spello. By F. Passarini, and Roger Gale Esq.
Authors: Passarini F. , Gale Roger
Published: July 2016

The late earl of Colerane presented to the Society a collection of inscriptions given to him by Ferdinand Passarini, who transcribed them from stones found at Spello, the antient Hispellum, and illustrated them with short notes. The first and most considerable of them on a pedestal six palms high and four square, with a hole in the top, formerly standing near the amphitheatre, but at this time on the right hand of the door of the town-house, had been before incorrectly published by Fabretti. A fuller and more critical commentary upon the same inscription was afterwards drawn up by the said Roger Gale, esq; which, being read to the Society, was entered in their minute book, whence it is now published, together with the notes by the antiquary of Spello:
IV. Dissertation on an ancient Cornelian. By the Rev. Mr. Hodgson
Authors: Hodgson
Published: July 2016

This figure is engraved from an ancient seal in the possession of John Lawson, esq. purchased abroad by his brother the late Dr. Isaac Lawson, who shewed it to the Society 1739, and had received from a French Antiquary an attempt to explain it, which I beg leave to produce in the following translation.
XX. Observations on an Inscription in the Church of Sunning-Hill, Berks. By Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter, and President of the Society
Authors: Milles
Published: July 2016

The parish church of Sunning-hill in Berkshire is a specimen, both in its form and size, of the earlier parochial churches which were built in this kingdom, consisting only of a nave, and a small chancel, divided by a square belfry tower.
XXXVI. A succinct and authentic Narrative of the Battle of Chesterfield, A. D. 1266, in the Reign of King Henry III. By Mr. Pegge
Authors: Pegge
Published: July 2016

Baldwin Wake the fourth, whose name is otherwise written Le Wac, was the possessor of the great manor of Chesterfield, in the 50th year of King Henry III, or A. D. 1266, when the battle, hereafter to be related, happened. This family had a large estate in the counties of Lincoln, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, and Hertford; and their chief residence was at Brun, or Burne, in Lincolnshire, and Lidell, in Cumberland. As to Chesterfield, which accrued to them by the marriage of Baldwin the third, grandfather of Baldwin above-mentioned, with Isabella, daughter of William Briver, the description of it runs thus; “manerium de Chestrefeld, cum “redditibus et servitiis duorum tenementorum suorum de “Newbold, Barley (now Barlow), Whittington Magna, Topton “(now Tapton), Boythorp, et Ecchington, et totum wapen- “tachum prædictum;” meaning the wapentake or hundred ot Scarsdale.
XXXVIII. Mr. Lethieullier's Observations on Sepulchral Monuments in a Letter to James West, Esq.
Authors: Lethieullier Smart
Published: July 2016

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

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

I have the honour of presenting the Society with some account of a custom formerly observed at the Marriage Ceremony both in France and England, and which I do not remember to have seen noticed by any writer of our own country.
X. An historical and descriptive Account of Ripon Minster, in the West Riding of the County of York, by the Rev. Robert Darley Waddilove, Dean of Ripon, F.A.S. In a Letter to William Bray, Esq. F.A.S. Treasurer
Authors: Waddilove Robert Darley
Published: July 2016

The Church of Ripon partakes of the common origin of most others in this kingdom, being founded at the re-establishment of Christianity after the conversion of the pagan Saxons. And we find that Alfred, King of Northumberland, first established a monastery or college of monks at Ripon, from Lindisfarne and Melros, in the year 661.
XII. An Account of some Roman Remains near Llandrindod, in a Letter from the Rev. Thomas Price to Theophilus Jones, Esq. F.S.A. Communicated by Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Price Thomas
Published: July 2016

I send you a sketch and letter, which I lately received from a young but intelligent and zealous antiquary; you will be pleased to communicate them to the Society, if you think them worthy of their attention.
XVI. Further Extract from the Exeter Manuscript in a second Letter from the Rev. J. J. Conybeare, Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A.
Authors: Conybeare J.J.
Published: July 2016

The Anglo-Saxon Poem of which I enclose a Specimen is contained, together with various others, in the Volume preserved in the Library of Exeter Cathedral, an extract from which I had, in November last, the honour of submitting to the Society. Its subject, the Reproach of a Spirit in misery to the body which it formerly inhabited, will doubtless be recognized by those who are conversant with our early Poetry as one upon which the genius of our Minstrels, or rather perhaps of our monastic Versifiers, was not unfrequently exercised. The Exordium of this ancient composition will be found (if I have rightly translated the passage in question, which is somewhat obscure,) to contain a singular instance of popular superstition relative to the time during which the soul was permitted to revisit the Earth after its separation from the body.
XXVI. Account of some Lids of Stone Coffins discovered in Cambridge Castle in 1810. By the Rev. T. Kerrich, M.A. F.S.A. Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge; in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Kerrich T.
Published: July 2016

I here send you Drawings (Pl. XV. XVI.) of some broken Lids of Stone Coffins, which were discovered in Cambridge Castle, when great part of it was destroyed, in the beginning of the year 1810.

This castle, we are told, was built by William the Conqueror; and as they were found under part of the original ramparts, it should seem that they must be, at least, as ancient as his time. However I do not mean to offer any conjectures concerning their antiquity, but shall be obliged to you to lay the Drawings of them before the Society, if you think them worthy of their notice.
II. An Account of the Revenue, the Expences, the Jewels, &c. of Prince Henry. Communicated by William Bray, Esq. F.A.S. in a Letter addressed to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Bray William
Published: July 2016

In the particulars of the Expence of the Royal Household in the reigns of Hen. VII. &c. to the present time, which I laid before the Society in 1794, and which they were pleased to insert in the 12th Vol. of the Archaeologia, there was an account of the number of servants in the Household of prince Henry, son of king James the First; and in the Household Ordinances published by the Society at p. 313. is a copy of the Assignation of the landes and revenues for support of that Prince made in 1610, amounting in the whole to 19,322l.7s.7d.besides certain Forests and Parks.
VI. Account of the Entertainment of King Henry the Sixth at the Abbey of Bury St. Edmund's. Communicated by Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S. from an original MS. of the Register Curteys of that Monastery in his possession, in a Letter to the President
Authors: Ord Craven
Published: July 2016

The following account of the entertainment of Henry VI. at the Abbey of Bury Saint Edmund's not having been noticed by any of our chroniclers or historians, and it being descriptive of the monastic manners of the times, induces me to submit it to the observation of the Society.
IX. Account of the ancient Rolls of Papyrus, discovered at Herculaneum, and the method employed to unroll them, in a Letter from the Hon. Henry Grey Bennett, to the Rev. Samuel Henley, M.A. F.A.S. Communicated by Mr. Henley
Authors: Bennett Henry Grey
Published: July 2016

In consequence of the conversation which I had the honor to hold with you, I take an early opportunity of explaining, as far as the want of an original MS. will admit, the process of unrolling the ancientPapyridiscovered in Herculaneum.
X. Account of Antiquities discovered in Cornwall, by the Rev. Malachy Hitchins, in a Letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. and F.S.A.
Authors: Hitchins Malachy
Published: July 2016

Since I did myself the honor of sending you a short account of three Roman Urns, and a newly-discoveredcromlêh, a farmer who lives in the parish of Lanant, just four miles directly north of St. Michael's Mount, happening to be employed in digging up earth for manure, in the ditch of one of his fields; found a place where the ground was loose to more than an usual depth; which tempting him to search for the cause, at two feet under the surface he met with ashes; many celts, some entire and others broken; several pieces of copper swords; and heavy lumps of fine copper evidently brought thither for fusion, as there is every appearance that this was a military foundery.
XX. Copy of an original Charter of Exemption from the Forest Laws, granted by K. Hen. the 3d. to Stephen de Segrave, in the Possession of Philip Hammersley Leathes, Esq. F.A.S. Communicated by Mr. Leathes, with Observations on the same
Authors: Leathes Philip Hammersley
Published: July 2016

The Charter of which this is a transcript was purchased out of the Collection of the late sir Charles Frederick.
XXIX. Notices concerning the Dormitory of the Cathedral-Monastery of Norwich, by F. Sayers, M.D. Communicated by the Rev. Samuel Henley, A.M. F.A.S.
Authors: Sayers F.
Published: July 2016

About the time in which Bishop Herbert de Losinga founded the cathedral of Norwich [a] he appears to have also begun the construction of a monastery on the south side of that building: this religious house was destined to the reception of Benedictine monks, [b] who were to be employed in the cathedral service: the work was completed in 1101, in the September of which year the foundation-charter was signed by Herbert, and sixty monks who had been collected together, and who had for some time resided in the Priory of St. Leonard, [c] were then removed, and fixed in the new monastery. [d]
XXXIV. Copies of Writs preserved among his Majesty's Records in the Tower, from King Edward the First, to the Chief Justice of Chester, and the Bishop of Carlisle, on occasion of the Marriage of the King's eldest Daughter. Communicated by Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director, in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

Herewith I send you copies of two Writs, one of them directed by king Edward the first, in the 21st year of his reign, (anno 1294) to the chief justice of Chester, commanding him to invite the principal knights of that county, to attend the marriage of his eldest daughter Elianor, to the Earl of Barr, at Bristol, and the other addressed to the Bishop of Carlisle, inviting him to attend on the same occasion. These, together with several others of the same kind, were found last summer among the unsorted records, in the chapel of the White Tower.
II. Copies of Three remarkable Petitions to King Henry the Sixth, with that King's Sign Manual, preserved among the Records in the Tower; with a Schedule annexed to one of them, containing an Account of the Robes provided for the Royal Colleges of our Lady of Eton, and of our Lady and St. Nicholas of Cambridge; communicated by Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

Besecheth mekely your pove' Suito' William Ayscogh one of your justice of the comon benche, that where he late by your comaundement was charged to take upon hym the degree of Sergeaunt of your lawe to his grete expenses and costes. And or he had ben' fully two yere in that office at the barre he was called by your heghnesun to the benche and made Justice, by which makyng Justice all his Wynnings that he sholde have hade in the said office of Sergeant and alle the fees that he had in England weere and be cessed and expired fro hym to his grete empoysshyng for they weere the grete substance of his lyvelode: and also he hath suche infirmite in his eghen that he dredith hym gretely of faillyng and perysshyng of his sight.
X. Further Remarks on an Ancient Coin of Atusa, by the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S. in a Letter to the Earl of Leicester, President
Authors: Weston Stephen
Published: July 2016

Having had the honour to exhibit very lately a curious unpublished small brass coin, to your Lordship and the Society, which bore on the right side a female turreted head, and on the reverse a square inscription, as follows, ΑΤΟϒΣΙΕΩΝΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΚΑΠΡΟΝ, and within the square, an arrow and a palm-branch; I beg leave to make some further remarks upon this very rare and interesting coin, which I then, in my first dissertation, supposed to belong to a town of Atusa, situate on the Caper, that, in conjunction with the Lycus, runs into the Mæander, in Asia Minor; but, upon reconsidering the matter, I am convinced that the Caper, in Asia Minor, is not the river on which Atusa stood; but the Caper which, as well as the Lycus, runs into the Tigris. I in some measure prepared the way for this opinion, by observing in my late paper, that the arrow on this coin was a type of the Tigris, or Dejlet of the Persians, or ancient Hidekel of the Assyrians. I shall now state my reasons for believing that the Atusians were inhabitants of the banks of the Caper that runs into the Tigris, and not into the Mæander.
XIV. Some Account of Roman Antiquities discovered at Caerbun, in Carnarvonshire, and in other Parts of that County. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

All writers on the subject of the Roman Stations in this island, agree in opinion that Caerhun, a small village on the river Conway, about five miles distant from the present town of that name, is the site of the ancient Conovium; a station which occurs in the eleventh iter of Antonine's Itinerary, and in the first of that of Richard of Cirencester. Camden supposes the name of Caerhun to be a corruption of Caer hên, the old city, but says that the common tradition of the neighbourhood was, that it received its name from Rhun ap Maelgwn Gwynedh, who died about the year 586. It is certain that in very ancient writings it is called Caerhun, whatever may be the etymology of its name.
XVI. Notices of some Antiquities discovered in Cornwall, in the Year 1793. In a Letter from the Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew, F.R.S. and F.A.S. to Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director
Authors: Carew Reginald Pole
Published: July 2016

I have just received from Mr. Rashleigh of Menabilly, in Cornwall, and have the honour of transmitting to you, three articles, which he desires to submit, through your channel, to the inspection of the Society of Antiquaries.

They consist of 1. A Tin Cup of singular Form.

2. Three portions of a Circle of Metal, inlaid with real or artificial Gem.

3. A Hurling Ball.
XVIII. Observations on the Situation of Camulodunum, in a Letter from Thomas Walford, Esq. F.A.S. to Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director
Authors: Walford Thomas
Published: July 2016

Various have been the opinions respecting the site of Camulodunum, the first colony of the Romans in Britain. Camden, Gibson, Horsley, and Mr. Reynolds place it at Malden; Richard of Cirencester, Dr. Stukely, Bishop Stillingfleet, Baxter, Morant, Dr. Mason, Mr. Gough, Drake, and the Rev. Mr. Leman, with more propriety at Colchester, as the following quotations and personal observations, I hope, will sufficiently demonstrate.
XXIV. Copies of an original Letter from K. Henry VIII. to Sir Nicholas Carew, Knt. Dr. Sampson, and Dr. Benet, his Ambassadors to the Emperor.—An Indenture between the same King and Sir Gilbert Talbot, and others.—Sir Walter Raleigh's Account of his Voyage to Guiana.—And a Letter from K. Charles the First to the Earl of Nottingham, and others. All of them in the possession of Richard Carew, Esq. of Beddington. Communicated by the Rev. Francis Stone, F.A.S.
Authors: Stone Francis
Published: July 2016

Trusty and right welbeloved we grete you well. Lating you wit that being advertised by Mastre Paulus de Cassalis lately sent unto us as Nuncio from the Pope nowe the Cardinall Farnesius encountring the said Nuncio in his Journey httherward made overture unto the same that he the said Cardinall Farnesius aftir knowleage had of or mynde in that behalf were as of hymself to doo unto us gratuitie and pleasure aftre the best sorte and facōn and wt the most vehiment and pregnant reasons he coulde excogitate nowe at this meting of themperor and the Pope at Bonery attempte and enterprise to perswade the Emperor to be content and agreable to set forthe wt the Pope divises and wayes for the aeheving of or purpose in or greate mater and likewise to write unto the Quene to be content at their instance for cessing of all Sutes and Contencõns to be content to eutre Religion so as wt the Contentement of all parties or matur raaye ateyne wtout delaye of Tyme brief spedy effectuall and sure ende to the quyete of or Conscience the Confirmacōn and contynuance of or olde and depe roted amytie betwen us and the Emperor the satisfaccon of the Worlde and assured repose of all Christendom.
XXVIII. Description of a Crom-Leach,in the County of Kilkenny. By Mr. Joseph Thomas Finegan. Communicated by The Marquess Townshend, and Earl of Leicester, President
Authors: Finegan Joseph Thomas
Published: July 2016

The annexed drawing exhibits a representation of one of the most curious monuments of many similar structures, which are scattered over that part of the County Kilkenny, described by the name of the Walch Mountains, towering over the river Suir, situated between Carrick and Waterford. It is formed of a huge, unhewn block of rock, whose enormous weight is supported, in the highest part, by three large flat stones, placed perpendicularly, two of which, (the outermost) are parallel to each other, and the inner one at right angles to them: the other end of the shelving stone rests on a large horizontal flat stone, which is itself supported beyond its center, by an upright one; so that if the pressure of the higher stone was taken away, the horizontal flat one must fall to the ground. A proof of the resources, if not of the mathematical skill, of our rude ancestors, for with all the assistance of the improved machinery of the moderns, it is not probable that such ponderous masses could be raised now, and placed in similar positions, with such geometrical accuracy. The top of the shelving stone is 15 feet in elevation above the surface of the ground, by which the proportions of the profile may be known, with tolerable accuracy, and if we make due allowance for the consequent accumulation of earth around it, and the natural tendency of the materials which compose it, to assist by compression the swelling power of the earth, in the lapse of ages since its erection, we must presume, that its altitude was originally more elevated than it is at this day.
XXX. A Description of a curious and unique Coin of Edessa. 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 Coin which I exhibit to your Lordship and the Society, is by favour of Lord Viscount Valentia, the fortunate possessor of this curious and unique rarity, who procured it at Lucknow, in exchange for the money of the country. The Coin is of gold, and weighs about eighty-one grains. On one side it has a head with a cap, or tiara like the one that Abgarus is always depicted with on the imperial money, and Ulysses on that of the Mamilia family, of which there are two drawings in Sigefrid Bayer's work on the History of Edessa, 1734, at Petropolis, 4to. The figure holds in his hand an arrow; round the head is an incription, which reads from right to left, of which two or three letters only are fair and legible. On the reverse is a whole-length figure of the sun, with a radiated head, worshipped at Edessa; to the left is date of two hundred and fifteen; and to the right the words MIPPO in Greek letters, signifying either the Sun of Edessa, or the Prince. Mihr, or Muhr, in Persian, means the Sun; and Meer, in the same, language, a Prince or Emperor. Roha is the old name of Edessa, formerly called Urhoi, the Sun's fire, light.
XXXIII. A Copy of the Certificate of the Marquis of Winchester, and of the Earl of Leicester, upon the Contest between the Officers of Arms and the Dean and Prebendaries of Westminster, concerning the Hearse of the Lady Catherine Knowles, deceased. Together with the Earl Marshal's Decree upon the Subject. In a Letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. and F.A.S. by Nicholas Carlisle, Secretary
Authors: Carlisle Nicholas
Published: July 2016

I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of the Certificate of William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, and Lord High Treasurer of England, and of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester, in the eleventh year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; upon the contest between the Officers of Arms and the Dean and Prebendaries of the collegiate Church of Westminster, each party claiming the Hearse of the Lady Catherine Knowles, deceased, lately set up therein, and all such as should thereafter be erected in the collegiate Church aforesaid: Which contest being by her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council referred to those two Noblemen, and they having heard the allegations of both parties, found, that the said Dean and Prebendaries had no manner of right to any Hearses or their Furniture; but that the same did belong to the Officers of Arms, as their fees; and do accordingly certify the Earl Marshal thereof. It is dated the sixth day of April, A. D. 1569.
XXXVII. Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S. V.P.
Authors: Repton John Adey
Published: July 2016

I have the honour to send you specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches: and should you deem them sufficiently interesting to deserve the attention of the Society of Antiquaries, I hope you will have the goodness to communicate them.
II. Remarks on the Reverend Mr. William Harris's Observations on the Roman Antiquities in Monmouthshire and the neighbouring Counties of Wales; with an Account of some curious Remains of Antiquity in Glamorganshire. Addrest to the President, Council, and Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries, by John Strange, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. His Majesty's Resident at Venice.
Authors: Strange John
Published: July 2016

I did myself the honor, some time ago, to submit to the judgment of this most respectable Society the result of my antiquarian researches in Monmouthshire. It has since been an agreeable surprize to me, to find the same subject treated by the Reverend Mr. William Harris, in his observations on the Julia Strata, and other Roman remains in South Wales, inserted in the second volume of the Archaeologla since this Gentleman's observations seem to confirm the principles, which I ventured to adopt in regard to the Romans in Wales, by additional proofs, not only respecting Monmouthshire and Brecknockshire, but with regard also to the other neighbouring Welsh counties. As the perusal of Mr. Harris's Paper has given me occasion to make some particular remarks, I think proper to communicate them to the Society, as a supplement to my former Essays, and a further illustration of this curious subject. I shall also add such antiquarian observations as I was able to make in my tour through the neighbouring county of Glamorgan.
VIII. Observations on the Plague in England, by the Rev. Mr. Pegge. In a Letter to Mr. Gough
Authors: Pegge Samuel
Published: July 2016

Though I esteem it to be criminal in some degree to be dropping false hints and suggestions about any matters that may materially affect the public, or raising groundless fears and apprehensions concerning the plague, or war, or any other the like alarming subjects; yet I doubt I shall be but too well justified in declaring, that at this juncture we appear to be in imminent danger of having the pestilence imported into this island. It now rages violently at Constantinople, in the Levant, and in Africa; insomuch that all the neighbouring nations, as we learn from the public prints, are taking all necessary precautions against it; and administration here at home have thought proper to double the quarantine.
XII. An account of certain earthen Masks from the Musquito Shore. By Charles Rogers, Esq. In a Letter to the President
Authors: Rogers Charles
Published: July 2016

By the favor of Daniel Braithwaite, Esq. a gentleman who lives in the city, I lay before you and your Society several pieces of Terra-cotta brought from the Musquito shore about the year 1775 [a].

They were sent by a very intelligent gentleman who had long resided in that country, and gave the following account of them.
XVII. Nummi Palmyreni illustratio per rev. Carolum Godofredum Woide, S. A. S.
Authors: Woide Carolum Godofredum
Published: July 2016

Invenit nuper doctissimus et rerum numismaticarum peritissimus, Carolus Combe, S. R. et S. A.S. in gazophylacio praestantissimo celeberrimi Guilielmi Hunteri, M. D. S. R. et S. A. necnon Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Parisien. focii, nummos, quales in Europa nondum vidimus, Palmyrenos, cujus characteres cum alphabeto Palmyreno contulit, et cum eo convenire deprehendit. Apparet in his nummis caput barbatum ad sinistram, cui tres literae a dextra et quatuor a sinistra parte adjectae sunt. Primam literam Γ jod esse doctissimus Combeus recte asserit. Licet enim in alphabeto Palmyreno [Philosoph. Transact. vol. XLVIII pag. 693.] paulo aliter scribatur: attamen in ipsis inscriptionibus Palmyrenis aliquoties eandem habet formam, quae in hoc nummo conspicitur.
XVIII. Four Letters from Beaupré Bell, Esq. to Roger Gale, Esq. on the Horologia of the Antients, with Mr. Gale's Answer
Authors: Bell Beaupré , Gale Roger
Published: July 2016

Since my last, I have received from an ingenious friend the following inscription, made use of in building the Benedictines church at Taloire (an inconsiderable village, half a league from Annecy, a town upon the lake of Annecy) which he observes not to be published with due exactness by Gruter.
XXX. Governor Pownall on Roman Earthen-ware, and the Boundary-Stone of Croyland Abbey
Authors: Pownall T.
Published: July 2016

Mr. Brander having entertained me at dinner with a desert served up in Roman earthen-ware out of his cabinet : on my mentioning this to my brother, he gave me the account [which stands in my paper, Archaeol. vol. V. p. 282.] of his having himself dragged up some pieces of Roman earthen-ware from off the Pudding-pan Sand or Rock, and showed me the three pieces there referred to, with several fragments of black earthen-ware. On examining them I observed on one the stamp Attiliani M. perfect and distinct; on the other, the traces, in the same sort of letters and stamp, of the same name, though not perfect. Whether the black sort ever had any stamp did not appear on the small fragments which I saw. I was led by this circumstance into a train of conjecture (for all that I have written on the subject deserves no better name) on the things themselves, and the place where they were found: and wrote a little memoire on them. In return to Mr. Brander's civility, I sent this paper to him, with liberty, if he pleased, of communicating it to the Society. At the same time that he communicated this paper in 1778, he exhibited six specimens of his Roman earthen-ware, said to have been fished up at the mouth of the Thames. A note referring to these pieces, and not to those on which I wrote, was, without the sanction of the Society, subjoined to this paper as published in the Archaeologia, vol. V. p. 282. 1779. I had observed that the name Attilianus only (as far as I could see) was on this earthen-ware. The note observes first, that the earthen vessels mentioned in this paper are in the cabinet of Gustavus Brander, Esq. next gives the six specimens of vessels, referred to in that note, on one only of which appears the name of Attilianus, This directly contradicts the fact which I had stated as the ground of my conjecture.
XIII. Description of the Church of Quenington in the County of Gloucester. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

Plate VI. represents the south-east view of the parish church of Quenington, or Queenington, in the county of Gloucesler, which is situated about two miles north of the market town of Fairford in the same county.
XVII. Observations on Vitrified Fortifications in Galloway. By Robert Riddell, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter to Mr. Gough.
Authors: Riddell Robert
Published: July 2016

The ingenious Mr. Williams mineral engineer having discovered in the Highlands of Scotland fome singular remains which he called vitrified forts, and having described in a Series of Letters those, at the hill of Knockfarrel, at the hill of Craig Phadrick, at the hill of Dun-Evan, at Castle Finlay and at the Castle hill of Fin-avon, this publication very much engaged the attention of the curious in research. Along with it, was published a Description of Craig-Phadrick, by Mr. Wate, Engineer at Birmingham, arid a Letter from Dr. Black, Professor of Chymistry, to Mr. Williams.
XVIII. A Mosaic Pavement in the Prior's Chapel at Ely; with a brief Deduction of the Rise and Progress of Mosaic Work since the Introduction of Christianity. By Richard Gough, Director
Authors: Gough Richard
Published: July 2016

The drawing submitted to the examination of the Society, and engraved Plate XVI. represents a mosaic pavement before the altar of the chapel in the prior's lodgings at ELY, built of stone by John Crawden, or Crouden, prior from 1321 to 1341, now a dwelling house, making part of the Deanery, and lately in the occupation of the Reverend Mr. Lewis Jones, son of the late prebendary of that name. The pavement is 4 feet 10 inches long, and 3 feet 1 inch wide and represents the fall of man; Adam and Eve at the forbidden tree, whose fruit the serpent with a human face, which some persons believed he assumed, seems to be recommending to the latter.
XXI. Description of a Saxon Arch, with an Inscription in Dinton Church, Buckinghamshire, and of sundry Antiquities found in that Parish. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Brand, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, from John Claxton, Esq. F. A. S.
Authors: Claxton John
Published: July 2016

Being on a visit in Buckinghamshire, near Aylesbury, at the latter end of last year, I was informed that there was a remarkable antient arch at Dinton church in that neighbourhood. I took the first opportunity of going to see it; and finding it to correspond with the report I had heard, I employed an artist at Aylesbury to take a drawing of the arch, which I now take the liberty of requesting you to lay before the Society.
XXXI. Account of Antiquities discovered at Bath 1790. By Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Bart. F.R.A.S.
Authors: Englefield Henry Charles
Published: July 2016

Having visited the remains of Roman antiquity lately discovered at Bath, I beg leave to present to the Society the following account of them.

The remains in question were brought to light by digging the foundation of a new pump room and baths between the present pump room and Stall-street.
VIII. Account of some Roman Antiquities lately discovered in Cumberland. By the Rev. D. Carlisle, of Carlisle. Communicated by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury
Authors: Carlisle D.
Published: July 2016

The antiquities from which the inclosed drawings were taken have been all (except No. 23) found at Castlesteads or Cambeck fort. A few of them were discovered some time ago, but the greater part only last year, when the remains of the fort, as well as of the wall of Severus, for a considerable length, were dug up.
X. Remarks on an Italian musical Instrument. In a Letter to General Melville. From John Moir, Esq.
Authors: Moir John
Published: July 2016

In 1789, passing through a town iu Lombardy, I accidentally heard a piper, surrounded by a crowd, execute an air so affecting, that I got out of my chaise to hear him; but judge my surprise when I found, that the instrument he was playing on was perfectly similar to the fistula the Satyrs and Fauns are pictured with. The piper had a little basket of the same sort of instruments to sell, one of which I bought, and on enquiry I found that it is common with the peasantry in that country; I doubt, therefore, whether it will have that merit of novelty with you that it had with me; but if it should happen that you have not seen one of the kind before, I may congratulate myself from the light your fine taste and erudition have constantly thrown on every thing relative to the antients, that I have put it in the best possible train of investigation. On my arrival at Milan, I mentioned the circumstance to a gentleman, who procured me the hearing a concert on it, accompanied by a violin and guittar, that quite enchanted me.
XIV. Copy of a Survey made of what remained in the Armoury of the Tower of London, in consequence of a Commission issued August 2, 1660, 12 Charles II. Communicated by William Bray, Esq. F.R.A.SS.
Authors: Bray William
Published: July 2016

On the Restoration of king Charles the Second, William Legg, Esq. was restored to the office of Master of the Armories, in the Tower of London, Greenwich, and elsewhere, from which he had been outed in the late distractions. Previous to his entering on the said office, he requested a survey to be made of what remained in the armoury; and thereupon a commission, dated August 2d, in the twelfth year of his Majesty's reign, 1660, was directed to Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, Colonel William Asheburnham, Sir Thomas Armestronge, knight, John Wood, and Bartholomew Beale, Auditors of the Imprests, to take the remaynes of all the armes, tooles, and other utensills, in the Tower of London, and magazines and storehouses at Greenwich.
XV. Account of a Brass Vessel found near Dumfries in Scotland, 1790. By Robert Riddell, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Riddell Robert
Published: July 2016

The antiquities here delineated were found in a moss about a mile from Friers Carse, in summer 1790, by the workmen forming the turnpike road from Dumfries to Sanquhar. They consisted of two vessels very like modern saucepans, and the one was within the other, and fitted it most exactly. They are brass, tinned in the inside, and very neatly made. The one now entire, will hold near a quart, and the bottom is raised in circular ornaments exactly like the bottom of the broken one, which is delineated here. The outer one was broken through the stupidity of those who found them, but the inner one is intire; on its handle is in Roman capitals what I imagine to be the maker's name.
XVI. Notices of Fonts in Scotland. By Robert Riddell, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter to Mr. Gough
Authors: Riddell Robert
Published: July 2016

Allow me, in return for the great pleasure your excellent account of English fonts in the tenth volume of the Archæologia afforded me, to present you with drawings of some Scottish fonts, in my small collection of antiquities at Friers Carse. If you think them worthy the attention of the Society of Antiquaries, they are at your disposal as you see proper. At the time of the Reformation in Scotland the mob demolished their sacred basons, by breaking and mutilating them, with a barbarous and bigoted zeal, so that few of them now are to be met with, and those much defaced. I have collected specimens of all the varieties I have seen; octangular, circular, square, oblong, and four-sided ones. The first is Morion font.
XXIV. A brief Survey of a part of Canterbury Cathedral, as described by Eadmer and Gervase: and a Review of Mr. Clarke's Opinion of the original Use of Stone Seats in Chancels. By the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.A.S.
Authors: Denne Samuel
Published: July 2016

Mr. Clarke has expressed his obligation to me for transmitting his Observations on the Appendages to Altars, of which large remains are frequently to be seen in parish churches; and I have assured him it was with pleasure I discharged the office, because convinced the paper did him much credit; and that, from the information and amusement it afforded, it would be very acceptable to the Society to whom it was presented. A hope I likewise entertain, that our Society will be favoured with more communications from a gentleman studious in investigating subjects of antiquity, and well qualified to illustrate them with his pencil and pen.
XXV. Some Remarks on the European Names of Chessmen, in a Letter from Francis Douce, Esq. to the Rev. Mr. Brand, Secretary
Authors: Douce Francis
Published: July 2016

I Have to request you will present to the Society of Antiquaries the following observations relating to Chess, which may be considered as supplementary to those already communicated by our worthy member, the honourable Daines Barrington.
XXVI. Observations on an antient Cup formerly belonging to the Abbey of Glastonbury. By the Rev. John Milner, M.A. F.S.A. in a Letter to Mr. Gough
Authors: Milner John
Published: July 2016

This antient cup, with a handle and cover to it, exactly in the form of a modern tankard, is of oak, and has been lackered over, especially in the inside, with a strong varnish, which must have greatly contributed to its preservation. It is indeed as perfect as when it first came out of the workman's hands, except the pegs mentioned below the joint, and that unite the cover with the handle, which appears to have been broken, and afterwards replaced by an artist of inferior skill.
I. A Sketch of the History of the Asylum, or Sanctuary, from its Origin to the final Abolition of it in the Reign of James I. By the Rev. Samuel Pegge
Authors: Pegge Samuel
Published: July 2016

The institution proposed for the subject of the following memoir, is of very ancient and even divine original: and as it has undergone, at times and in different countries, so many alterations and revolutions, and I may add such horrible and scandalous abuses, the history of its various fate and fortune may deservedly become a proper object of enquiry and elucidation.
VII. Letter to the Rev. James Douglas, F. A. S. from John Pownall, Esq. on a Roman Tile found at Reculver in Kent
Authors: Pownall John
Published: July 2016

I have the honour to send you herewith a very rude and imperfect sketch of one of the tiles which cover some ducts or drains, now discernible in the cliff at Reculver in Kent, about eight feet below the surface of the Roman station.

I call these ducts, or drains, because I am unable to determine whether they were merely drains or sewers to the camp, or whether they were ducts to a bath.
XVI. Observations on a Picture by Zuccaro from Lord Falkland's Collection supposed to represent the Game of Primero. By the Hon. Daines Barrington. Inscribed to the Rev. Mr. Bowle.
Authors: Barrington Daines
Published: July 2016

I conceive that the following account of a picture, which was sold last week at Greenwood's auction-room in Leicester Fields, may be interesting to the Society.

It originally belonged to the great and good lord Falkland; from whom it descended to the late viscount of that title, who died not long since.

According to tradition in the family it was painted by Zuccaro; and represented lord Burleigh playing at cards with three other persons, who, from their dress, appear to be of distinction, each of them having two rings on the same fingers of both their hands.
XIX. Observations on our antient Churches. By the Rev. Mr. Ledwich, F.A.S. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary
Authors: Ledwich
Published: July 2016

There is great reason to apologize for offering observations on our ecclesiastical architecture, which has already been so ably discussed by many eminent members of this Society. But as a minuter attention to it, than was consistent with their more general plans, has suggested ideas different from those advanced, and presented new views of the subject, I am emboldened, through your obliging intervention, to submit them to the candour and judgement of this learned and respectable body.
XXII. Doubts and conjectures concerning the reason commonly assigned for inserting or omitting the words Ecclesia and Presbyter in Domesday Book. By the Rev. Samuel Denne. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary.
Authors: Denne Samuel
Published: July 2016

A notion seems generally to have prevailed, that where neither Ecclesia nor Presbyter is entered in a clause of Domesday Book, it may be inferred that at the time the survey was made there was not a church in any of the districts to which the clauses refer. The late bishop Lyttelton and doctor Nash have countenanced this idea, and the silence of this venerable record is considered by Mr. Pegge as a formidable answer to the reasons advanced by Mr. Brooke to shew, that the church of Aldbrough in Yorkshire was a Saxon building.
XXVI. Observations on the American Inscription. By Colonel Charles Vallencey, F.A.S.
Authors: Vallancey Charles
Published: July 2016

The attention of the Society has been lately much taken up with the explanation given by M. Gebelin of the Taunton inscription in New England. That French author being inclined to ascribe the inscription on the rock to Phœnicians or Carthaginians, I beg leave to offer a few observations thereon.
XXX. Explanation of the Inscriptions on a Roman Altar and Tablet found at Tinmouth Castle in Northumberland, A. D. 1783. By the Rev. Mr. Brand, Secretary.
Authors: Brand
Published: July 2016

No 1. Pl. XXI. is an exact representation of the front of a Roman altar found in Tinmouth Castle in Northumberland, by Major Durnford, at the depth of six feet in the earth, where it had been laid as a foundation stone, probably of the antient Christian church which is said to have been erected there soon after the introduction of that faith into Britain. The lower part of it, by whatever accident, is much defaced, and it is at present quite flat at the top, though we may suppose it to have had originally a focus there, which the workmen, in order to make it square and bed properly, may have been obliged to take off. The inscription is plainly to be read : “Jovi optimo maximo “Ælius Rufus Præfectus Cohortis quartæ Lingonum.” The Lingones were a people of Champagne in France, and are well known to have been among the Roman auxiliary troops of infantry, but this is our first information where the fourth Cohort of them was stationed in Britain.
XXXI. An Account of the obsolete Office of Purveyor to the King's Houshold. By William Bray, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Bray William
Published: July 2016

The office of purveyor to the king's houshold was heretofore exercised with so much oppression of the subject, and the officer was armed with such authority, as to occasion continual applications to the king for redress, and numerous acts of parliament were passed to restrain these abuses. From the frequent repetition of such laws, we may collect that they did not answer the intended purpose. The total abolition of this enormity was one of the advantages derived from the troubles in the last century ; an end was put to it at the Restoration. The name of purveyor indeed still remains amongst the king's servants, but the purveyor of these days is nothing more than the tradesman who serves the king as he would any other customer, and, in general, at as cheap a rate.
XXXV. Description of a Druidical Monument in the Island of Jersey; in a Letter from the Right Honourable Henry Seymour Conway, Governor of Jersey, to the Earl of Leicester, P. S. A.
Authors: Conway Henry Seymour
Published: July 2016

I Have the honour to transmit herewith the model of a Druid Temple, discovered some time ago on the top of a pretty high rocky hill, near the town of St. Helier, in the Island of Jersey. I am sorry to have so long delayed executing the promise I made to send it your lordship; but it having been transmitted to me without a scale, I did not care to trouble you till that material defect was remedied. By the scale which I have now received, and which is of three feet to an inch, your lordship will see the dimensions are not great, but I imagine it to be the most intire and perfect monument of this kind existing in this part of the world.
XXXVI. On the Origin of the Jews in England. By Mr. John Caley, F.A.S.
Authors: Caley John
Published: July 2016

At what period the nation of the Jews first obtained a settlement in England, is a question involved in considerable obscurity; arising as well from the distance of time when this event is supposed to have happened, as from the few memorials that have been (since their dispersion) transmitted down to us concerning them.
XXXVII. An historical and descriptive Account of the Ancient Painting preserved at Cowdray in Sussex, the Seat of Lord Viscount Montague: representing the Procession of King Edward VI. from the Tower of London to Westminster, February 19th, A. D. 1547, previous to his Coronation. By John Topham, Esq. F.R.A.S.
Authors: Topham John
Published: July 2016

The drawing now exhibited is made from one of those curious historical paintings which have been long since introduced to the notice of this Society by our late learned Vice President Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Baronet, in an account of some ancient historical paintings at Cowdray in Sussex, published in the Transactions of this Society, Archaeologia, vol. III. p. 239—272. In that memoir may be seen a minute description of many of those valuable representations which preserve several interesting parts of our national events, and exhibit to our view the state of the arts, and the dresses, manners, and usages, which prevailed amongst our ancestors about the middle of the sixteenth century.
IV. Observations on the Practice of Archery in England. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary. By the Honourable Daines Barrington
Authors: Barrington Daines
Published: July 2016

As some of our most signal victories in former centuries were chiefly attributed to the English archers, it may not be uninteresting to the Society if I lay before them what I have been able to glean with regard to the more flourishing slate of our bowmen, till their present almost annihilation.