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XXIII.—On a Silver Disc from Tarentum, in the possession of Henry Vint, Esq., F.S.A. of Colchester. By Samuel Birch, Esq.
Authors: Birch Samuel
Published: June 2012

The object I propose to describe is a Disc of silver of very thin substance, being scarcely one-sixteenth of an inch thick, and beaten up from behind in the kind of metallic work called sphurelaton by the Greeks. It has apparently formed the top of a mirror-case, or box. (See Plate XXI.) The account of its discovery, which Mr. Vint, its possessor, has placed in my hands, is as follows :—“This bas-relief I purchased in Naples upwards of twenty years ago of a travelling jeweller, who collected and dealt in relics of antiquity. The following, to the best of my recollection, is the account he gave me of the place where it was found, and the manner in which it came into his possession. On one of his customary visits to Tarentum, in Calabria, he was invited by a silversmith, with whom he transacted business, to take some refreshment, and on entering a room behind the shop he observed this bas-relief placed against the wall, and two small lamps burning before it. Being at the very first sight sensible of its antiquity, he carefully asked the silversmith's wife, who was present, where it was found. Her answer was to this effect. Some excavators brought to their shop for sale a quantity of silver which they had found in digging among the ruins of the old city. On breaking up the mass her husband discovered these figures within it, and was about to put them into the crucible to melt them, when she snatched the rare relic from her husband, exclaiming with religious horror, ‘Would you melt the Madonna?’ Her husband confirmed his wife's account, and moreover stated it was soldered within a conical-shaped silver vase that was found covered up in the tight cavity of a large stone among the ruins of Tarentum.”
XXV.—A Narrative of the principal Naval Expeditions of English Fleets, beginning with that against the Spanish Armada in 1588, down to 1603. In a Letter from Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., Secretary, to John Yonge Akerman, Esq., Resident Secretary
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

The Cottonian MS. Titus B. VIII. contains, among numerous other articles, a Narrative of the principal naval Expeditions of English Fleets, beginning with that against the Spanish Armada in 1588, down to 1603. The beginning of this curious Memoir is wanting, and the writer is unknown; but the facts through its several divisions are detailed with so much spirit, and the statements of the expeditions are so strongly mixed with contemporary feeling and contemporary anecdote, that I submit a transcript of them to our Society's notice. They contain many particulars of striking interest, which I have not found elsewhere. It is evident from several passages that the writer was in the armament with the Earl of Essex and the Lord Admiral at the attack on Cadiz in 1596; with the Earl of Essex in his voyage to the Islands in the following year; and with Sir Richard Lewson and Sir William Monson in 1602. Whoever he was, he was closely connected with Sir William Monson, if he was not Sir William himself.
XXVII.—Upon an Historical Tablet of Rameses II., 19th Dynasty, relating to the Gold Mines of Æthiopia. By Samuel Birch, Esq.
Authors: Birch Samuel
Published: June 2012

I have the honour to transmit the translation of a long Egyptian hieroglyphical inscription, consisting of thirty-eight lines of text, published by M. Prisse, but not explained by him, in his Egyptian Monuments, which is of considerable importance for a due knowledge of the political history of Egypt. M. Prisse describes it as a tablet of Rameses II., taken from the ruin which is situate facing Dakke, in Nubia. This spot, which he states has not been as yet well examined, ought to be Contra Pscelcis, or rather Tachompso, according to Ptolemy. The tablet is of granite, and of very mediocre workmanship, and its lower part had been broken into several pieces, one portion of which, the only remaining, he had presented in the midst of the plate, not knowing its right position. “Notwithstanding its mutilation, this monument,” says M. Prisse, “is very interesting for the history of Rameses II., who, as this inscription states, as soon as the third year of his reign, had rendered himself illustrious by his victories. Since the drawing was made the tablet is supposed to have been transported to France by the Count St. Ferriol, and to be at present in the chateau of Uriage, near Grenoble.” So far M. Prisse. I propose to take up the subject where he has left it, and to give a translation of its contents, which presents no great difficulties except in three or four places, which I have marked. In the notes which accompany this Paper, I have indicated the new philological explanations which I have proposed, as well as such restorations as the text, often indifferently copied, demands. But the historical commentary, and such as requires more than mere verbal criticism, I have added to the translation. It is also much to be regretted that, while in France, in Prussia and in Austria, there is a national hieroglyphic type by which Egyptian studies are materially advanced, no such aid exists in England. Hence many points can only be proved by fewer examples cited than would have been the case had a type existed; although, in these instances, those which occurred to the writer as most conclusive have been selected.
XXIX.—Account of Roman Remains found at Box Moor, Herts. Communicated by John Evans, Esq. of Nash Mills, to Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N., V.P., and Director
Authors: Evans John
Published: June 2012

The Antiquities represented in the annexed anastatic Sketch have been found in the immediate vicinity of Boxmoor Station, on the London and North Western Railway, and have nearly all been brought to light and preserved by the intelligent clerk at that station, Mr. Byles. The neighbourhood was first known to contain any Roman remains through the discovery in 1837 of some Roman sepulchral interments in the burial-ground attached to Box Lane Chapel, which is about 300 yards distant from the station. An Account of the Objects then discovered will be found in the Archaeologia, vol. XXVII. p. 434. They consisted of a circular glass urn about 12 inches in diameter; the fragments of another of the same character; another of a square form with a handle; an earthen præfericulum or pitcher-shaped vessel used for funereal libations; a bronze lamp-stand and an earthen lamp; together with a number of large iron nails, with which the wooden cistae in which the interments were made were fastened together. It will be at once observed that these remains and those represented in the sketch are of a totally different character; the one being adapted for sepulchral and the other for domestic purposes. The majority of the latter were found in and around one of those circular pits or culinae which are not uncommon in the neighbourhood of Roman buildings.
XXXII.—Report of the Committee appointed by the Council of the Society of Antiquaries to investigate the circumstances attending the recent Discovery of a Body in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster
Authors: Prior James , Pettigrew T. J. , Thoms W. J. , Bruce John , Akerman J. Y.
Published: June 2012

The Committee appointed by the Council on the 20th January, 1852, to investigate the circumstances attending the recent discovery of a body in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, with power to have drawings made and with directions to report to the Society, beg to report, that, having obtained the necessary permission from Charles Barry, Esq., and secured the services of Mr. Scharf as draughtsman, they proceeded, on Friday the 23rd January, to the crypt under the Chapel of St. Stephen, Westminster, where the body in question had been discovered.
III. Observations on the Heraldic Devices discovered on the Effigies of Richard the Second and his Queen in Westminster Abbey, and upon the Mode in which those Ornaments were executed; including some Remarks on the surname Plantagenet, and on the Ostrich Feathers of the Prince of Wales. By John Gough Nichols, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Nichols John Gough
Published: June 2012

The volume of Monumental Effigies, drawn and engraved by Mr. Charles Alfred Stothard, F.S.A. the late draughtsman to the Society, is so generally known and so highly appreciated wherever known, that it is only necessary, in order to introduce the subject of the following remarks, to remind the reader that it was left imperfect, in consequence of the author's sudden death, from a lamentable accident which occurred in the pursuit of his congenial profession. It was a part of Mr. Stothard's plan to have included in his work a complete series of the effigies of the Kings and Queens of this country; and for that purpose he visited France, and brought from Fontevraud his drawings of the statues of Henry the Second and his Queen, of Richard the First, and of Isabella Queen of John; and from the Abbey of L'Espan, near le Mans, the effigy of Berengaria, Queen of Richard I., as well as the figure of Geoffrey, Comte of Anjou, from an enamelled Plate in the church of St. Julien at le Mans. There were others, however, and those by no means inferior to any in beauty or interest, which had been left, perhaps from the very reason of their being within immediate reach, until some convenient opportunity, which was frustrated by the premature close of the artist's career. I allude particularly to those of Queen Philippa, King Richard the Second, and his Queen Anne of Bohemia, all in Westminster Abbey.
VI. Further Notes on the Runic Cross at Lancaster; by John Mitchell Kemble, Esq.
Authors: Kemble John Mitchell
Published: June 2012

In Dr. Whitaker's Richmondshire, vol. ii. p. 229, there is a copy of a Runic inscription upon a stone cross of some beauty and very great antiquity. The inaccuracy of this copy was noted by me in my Memoir on the Anglo-Saxon Runes, published in the Archæologia, vol. XXVIII. page 347, as presenting an insuperable bar to any attempt at explaining the inscription.
VII. Remarks upon Letters of Thomas Winter and Lord Mounteagle, lately discovered by John Bruce, Esq., F.S.A.; communicated to the Society by David Jardine, Esq., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Bruce John
Published: June 2012

I have read with much interest the letters of Thomas Winter and Lord Mounteagle, communicated by Mr. Bruce to the Society of Antiquaries in February last; and as I hesitate to adopt the conclusion which that gentleman deduces from the latter of the two letters, I venture to submit a few observations upon the subject to the consideration of the Society.
IX. Description of an Egyptian Tomb now preserved in the British Museum. By Samuel Birch, Assistant in the Department of Antiquities, British Museum, Corresponding Member of the Archæological Institute of Rome
Authors: Birch Samuel
Published: June 2012

Among the objects acquired by the British Museum, in the year 1836, from the magnificent collection of the late Mr. Salt, were parts of some tombs, taken from the vast cemetery in the immediate vicinity of the Pyramids at Gizeh. Portions of these comprise two false doors, apparently from the same tomb, each being nearly a fac-simile of the other; and they contain the name and titles of the functionary for whom the tomb was excavated or erected, with the prenomen of the monarch during whose reign the individual lived, and other indications, such as style and composition of the hieroglyphical texts, of having been executed soon after the period when the Pyramids were erected. The replacing together of the separate pieces, as they at present exist among the other monuments of the national collection, has been executed from drawings made by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, who saw them in their original state, previous to their removal by Mr. Salt; and the interest which attaches to every attempt of collating the royal names found in this vicinity with the lists of the Greek authors, entitles them to the most profound attention of the archæologist.
X. Observations upon the History of certain Events in England during the Reign of King Edward the Fourth. By James Orchard Halliwell, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A., F.R.A.S., &c.
Authors: Halliwell James Orchard
Published: June 2012

The last few years have been productive of much new research in the history of the reign of Edward the Fourth. Sir Henry Ellis, in his “Original Letters illustrative of English History, ” laid the foundation of a series of documents, which was followed by some articles in the “Excerpta Historica, ” by Mr. W. H. Black, and more recently has been considerably augmented by the publication of an anonymous history under the able editorship of Mr. Bruce, and another contemporary chronicle published by the Camden Society. To furnish a few additional facts on a period of history, the obscurity of which has been admitted by every writer, a has been my object in the present paper; and I place the results of my researches before the notice of the Society of Antiquaries, under the conviction that its members form the only body in Europe able to judge whether the materials here brought together are valuable additions to this portion of our country's history.
XIV. Some Historical Doubts relating to the Biographer Asser. By Thomas Wright, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Wright Thomas
Published: June 2012

In using Asser's Life of King Alfred as the ground-work of a biographical sketeh of that Monarch, some doubts have arisen in my mind as to the authenticity and character of that well-known work, which I take the liberty of laying before the Society of Antiquaries. It is an important question, because it affects one of the most interesting periods of our national history; and I hope that these observations may lead to a more thorough investigation of the question by those who are better capable of deciding than myself. It will be had in mind that the book in question purports to be a life of King Alfred, written in the 45th year of his age (i. e. A.D. 893 or 894), by his intimate friend Bishop Asser.
XV. Effigy of King Richard, Cœur de Lion, in the Cathedral at Rouen. Communicated to the Society by Albert Way, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. in a Letter addressed to John Gage Rokewode, Esq., F.R.S., Director
Authors: Way Albert
Published: June 2012

The announcement in the French journals of the month of August 1838, that by the researches of the distinguished antiquary of Normandy, M. Deville, the lost effigy of King Richard had been brought to light from beneath the pavement of the choir in Rouen Cathedral, induced me to take the earliest opportunity of visiting that city, with the special purpose of examining so interesting a memorial. During the last summer I had the occasion of correcting the observations previously made, and which I had reserved in the hope that no long interval would elapse, before a second similar investigation, conducted with the same enthusiasm, and rewarded by a like success, might enable me to add to this notice of the relics of the Lion-hearted Richard, some account of the Tomb of Henry his elder brother, whose remains were deposited near to the spot where the effigy of Richard has been discovered, and whose memorial shared the same fate, by which both tombs were barbarously condemned to be destroyed. Owing to unexpected circumstances no further researches have hitherto been permitted, and as I am not aware, that during the interval any accurate report of the discovery made in 1838, has been made public, I am induced to hope that a short notice on a subject so interesting both in relation to early art, and to monumental antiquities, may not be unacceptable to the Society.
XVI. Notices of recent discoveries of Roman Antiquities at Strood, Bapchild, Oare, and Upchurch, in Kent, with remarks on the site of the Durolevum of Antoninus. By Charles Roach Smith, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Smith Charles Roach
Published: June 2012

In the autumn of 1838, and in the spring of last year, excavations were made for the foundations of cottages, and also for materials for brickmaking, in a field called Church-field, situate on the banks of the Medway, between the town of Strood and the Temple farm, and opposite the castle of Rochester.

Some jet rings, and an ornament of the same material bearing a Medusa's head, were exhibited to the Society about a twelvemonth since, with a brief remark, stating the fact of their having been found during the progress of the work, with several hundred coins.

This announcement induced me to visit the spot. Finding that the report was not exaggerated, but, on the contrary, that other discoveries had been made and might still be looked for, I repeated my visit several times during the summer, and now lay the result before you ; at the same time I am enabled to furnish information relative to contemporary investigations in other parts of the county of Kent.
XVII. Description of an ancient Temple near Crendi, Malta. In a Letter from J. G. Vance, Esq. to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Vance J. G.
Published: June 2012

Having at the request of his Excellency Sir Henry Bouverie undertaken the superintendance of the excavations near Casel Crendi in this island, he has suggested to me that a short description of them, illustrative of the ground plan, taken for him by Mr. Foulis of the 59th Regiment, might be an acceptable present to the Society of Antiquaries. I have therefore taken the liberty of forwarding it to you, accompanied by a lithograph of the images.
XIX. Observations on the Site of Camulodunum, in a Letter from the Rev. Henry Jenkins, B.D., to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Jenkins Henry
Published: June 2012

Through my friend, Dr. Rowlands, I transmit to you my observations on the site of Camulodunum. My first intention was to have traced the whole of the 9th Iter, but I have been prevented by my professional duties from attempting so much, and have confined my inquiries to my own neighbourhood. To Messrs. Tayspill and Gilbert I am greatly indebted for their kindness in tracing on the Ordnance Map the various roads and places mentioned in the Paper. The Roman works are marked in red, and the British works in blue. In addition to what relates to my paper, those gentlemen have also traced, from their own observations, the road leading from Colonia to Mersea Island, at least so much as has come under their notice, and this road they have also marked in red, and the site of the Propraetor's house, and the Roman beacon in Mersea Island. I was afraid to add more notes, lest I should make the paper too tedious; at the same time it was necessary to add some for explanation. And if what I have written meets the approbation of the Society, I shall be amply rewarded.
XXIII. Letter from Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., Secretary, to Hudson Gurney, Esq., V.P., accompanying a Scheme proposed in the Time of Charles the First for establishing a Mount of Piety in England
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

Few persons, generally speaking, are aware that establishments called Monti di Pièta, institutions for lending money at a moderate interest to necessitous persons upon pledges, have long existed in Italy. They originated in the fifteenth century, in consequence of the excessive usury of the Jews and Lombards, who sometimes went so far as to take an interest of twenty-five per cent. The earliest of these Institutions is believed to have been that at Fadua founded in 1491. Leo the Tenth soon after adopted the plan at Rome, as a public benevolent institution under the inspection of the Government.
XVI.—On certain Passages in the Life of Sir John Hawkins, temp. Elizabeth. In a Letter from Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N., K.S.F., D.C.L., Director, President of the Royal Geographical Society of London, &c. to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., Secretary
Authors: Smyth W. H.
Published: June 2012

Adverting to the Letter addressed to me by John Payne Collier, Esq. V.P. recently read to the Society, which accompanies a valuable statement from Sir John Hawkins, I perceive he mentions that excellent old seaman's having been called by his biographers “Treasurer of the Navy,” and also “Treasurer of Ships.” To these I take occasion to add a third official designation, namely, that of “Treasurer of the Queen's Majesty's Marine Causes,” as may be seen in the Cottonian MSS. Otho, E. IX. and elsewhere. In 1573 he seems to have succeeded the brave William Holstock as Comptroller of the Navy, a high and arduous office, the duties of which he discharged so ably that Sir William Monson, a man by no means given to flatter him, assures us, that he introduced more useful inventions and better regulations into the service than any of his predecessors had done.
XVII.—Notes upon the Capture of “The Great Carrack,” in 1592. By William Richard Drake, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Drake William Richard
Published: June 2012

The capture of the “Madre de Dios,” or, as it was generally termed in England, “The Great Carrack,” in 1592, was not merely an incident of unusual temporary interest, but even of permanent importance in the history of this country.
XXIV.—Observations on the Story of Lucius, the first Christian King of Britain. By Henry Hallam, Esq. V.P.
Authors: Hallam Henry
Published: June 2012

The ecclesiastical history of Britain is generally made to commence, after some conjectural hypotheses as to the original preaching of Christianity, with the celebrated conversion of a king named Lucius, in the latter part of the second century. The two writers on our ecclesiastical antiquities who have most claim to deference for learning, as one of them has for critical judgment, Usher and Stillingfleet, as well as those of a secondary, yet respectable character, such as Collier, unite in receiving this as an authentic fact. Yet some have always been found to doubt, among whom we may place Whitaker and Henry, as rather more peremptory than the rest; the former being certainly not over sceptical in matters of historical tradition. But Dr. Lingard and many others of our contemporaries, though under the necessity of moulding the story into a less questionable shape than it has come down to us, have not ventured to reject the whole as a fable, or to deny that a certain king during the reigns of the Antonines was the means of spreading the light of the Gospel over a part at least of our island, after having sought and received instruction at the hands of the Bishop of Rome.
XXV.—An Account of a Discovery of early Saxon Remains at Barrow Furlong, on the Hill Farm, in the parish of Marston St. Lawrence, in the county of Northampton. By Sir Henry Dryden, Bart. Communicated to the Society through C. Roach Smith, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter addressed to J. Y. Akerman, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Dryden Henry
Published: June 2012

Sir Henry Dryden has very kindly placed in my hands his notes and drawings illustrative of a discovery of sepulchral remains in the county of Northampton made a few years since, chiefly under his personal inspection.

The care with which the facts disclosed on that occasion have been collected and recorded, and the copious manner in which drawings have been made of the various objects discovered, give an unusual degree of interest to this communication, which I am sure the Society will appreciate in common with all who in such matters have experienced the advantage of being furnished with a full statement of circumstances, and, on the contrary, have felt the embarrassment that frequently arises from non-attention to particulars.
XXVI.—Remarks on the Sword, Dagger, and Ring of King James the Fourth of Scotland, preserved in the College of Arms, London. By Sir Charles George Young, Garter, F.S.A.
Authors: Young Charles George
Published: June 2012

The sword and dagger now exhibited, accompanied by drawings thereof, (Plate XIV.) are said to be those taken from King James IV. after the discovery of his body on Flodden Field, an assertion not recently made, but supported by a tradition of long standing.
XX.—An Account of Excavations in an Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Harnham Hill, near Salisbury. By John Yonge Akerman, F.S.A. Secretary
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: June 2012

In the summer of the present year, a paragraph appeared in the newspapers stating that some ancient weapons had been discovered at Harnham Hill, in the neighbourhood of Salisbury, in a field in the occupation of William Fawcett, Esq. one of the borough magistrates. The description of these relics was sufficiently accurate to assure me that they were of the Anglo-Saxon period. I immediately wrote to Mr. Fawcett, who most promptly and kindly replied to my inquiries, and promised me the requisite facilities for a proper exploration of the site as soon as the crop which the field then bore should be carried. He further stated, that about eight years ago a carpenter, in digging a hole to receive a gate-post on the south side of the field, had turned up a spear-head and part of a human skull. This circumstance attracted no attention at the time, but in June last a further discovery was made by Robert Wallan, “the drowner,” or person in charge of the water meadows in the occupation of Mr. Fawcett, who, when employed in the field, perceived, about two yards from the gate-post, a spear-head protruding from the ground. This induced him to make further search, and in a short time he discovered the iron umbo of a shield and portions of a skeleton. Subsequently, an iron knife and a buckle were turned up with the remaining portions of the skeleton.
XXI.—An Examination of the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, with a view to ascertain whether the claim usually accorded to Simon de Burton, and the two William Canynges, as the founders and re-constructors of that edifice, is based upon fact. By George Pryce, Esq. of Bristol: in a Letter addressed to John Yonge Akerman, Esq., Secretary
Authors: Pryce George
Published: June 2012

In the progress of some inquiries into the history of the noble church of St. Mary Redcliffe in this city, I have been much struck to find so trifling an amount of information, documentary or otherwise, relating to the commencement, progress, and completion of this magnificent fabric. This paucity of tangible evidence upon the subject induced a close inspection of the building itself, as the only means of eliciting the intelligence desired; and the remarks which follow are the result of a patient investigation of this interesting topic, and the conclusions arrived at after much anxious thought and solicitude.
XXV.—Memorials preserved at Bruges of King Charles the Second's Residence in that City: referred to in a Letter from G. Steinman Steinman, Esq., F.S.A., to the Right Honourable Lord Braybrooke, F.S.A.
Authors: Steinman G. Steinman
Published: June 2012

The very intimate acquaintance which your Lordship is known to possess with the characters who figured, more or less prominently, during the reign of Charles II. induces me to call your lordship's attention to a MS. list of the court and household of that monarch, as constituted shortly after he came to reside at Bruges, which I met with amongst the muniments preserved in the Hôtel de Ville of that city, and which I feel assured must be of some interest, not only to your Lordship, but to the Society in general.
XXVII.—Third Letter to the Viscount Mahon, President, from John Henry Parker, Esq. F.S.A. upon the Ancient Churches in the West of France
Authors: Parker John Henry
Published: June 2012

I terminated my last letter with a notice of the buildings of the town of Saintes. I believe that between that town and Bordeaux there are some interesting village churches, but I was too much pressed for time to be able to visit them, being obliged to take advantage of the steam-boat up the Gironde. I propose this evening to give some account of the buildings of Bordeaux, and some others in the neighbourhood, to which I made an excursion.
XXIX.—Note on Saxon and other Remains discovered at and near Mentmore, in the County of Buckingham. By Frederic Ouvry, Esq., F.S.A.; in a Letter to J. Y. Akerman, Esq., Secretary
Authors: Ouvry Frederic
Published: June 2012

The village of Mentmore stands about eight miles north-east from Aylesbury, four miles from Leighton Buzzard, and one mile and a half from the Cheddington Station, on the London and North-Western Railway. It is situated on a hill, which rises somewhat abruptly from the Vale of Aylesbury. The hill is of irregular shape, throwing out three spurs; on one of which, stretching to the westward, stands the church, and along another, towards the north-east, is the road to Leighton Buzzard. It is a small rural parish, scarcely known by name till the Baron M. A. de Rothschild established his stag-hounds there. I cannot trace the name beyond Domesday Book. The manor is there stated to have belonged to the fair Edith (Eddeva Pulchra), the wife of King Edward the Confessor, and as then belonging to Earl Hugh. The manor subsequently passed through the families of Bussell, Zouche of Harringworth, Bray, Ligoe, Hamilton (Viscount Limerick), and Harcourt, to the present possessor, the Baron M. A. de Rothschild.
XXX.—Some Account of the Roman Villa, and the Discoveries made on the Borough Hill, the ancient Bennavenna, by Beriah Botfield Esq., F.R.S. and F.S.A., of Norton Hall; with Illustrations and a Map of the Vicinity by Mr. Edward Pretty, of Northampton
Authors: Botfield Beriah
Published: June 2012

Borough Hill, near Daventry, has by most antiquaries been considered the Station Bennavenna, or Benaventa, of the Itinerary of Antoninus. Bridges and Baker, the historians of Northamptonshire, hare given so full an account of this place, and so satisfactorily decided the question as to the real site of the Station, that I need only record the researches recently made in continuation of the exploration of 1823, and hazard some conjectures as to points not clearly elucidated by former authors, relative to objects of antiquarian interest in connexion with this station.
XXXV.—Note on some further Discoveries in the Anglo-Saxon Burial-Ground at Harnham Hill, near Salisbury. By John Yonge Akerman, F.S.A. Secretary
Authors: Akerman John Yonge
Published: June 2012

Permission having been kindly afforded the Society to renew their researches in the Low Field at Harnham, the excavations, at their expense, were resumed by me on Tuesday, the 11th of April, and continued for three days.

A portion of the hedge westward of the gate-post, at which my former operations commenced last year, having been removed, we proceeded to dig a trench in that direction, south of and parallel to the first-discovered grave. Amongst a quantity of loose soil was found the iron-spike of the butt-end of a spear, which had probably belonged to the staff of the spear discovered by Robert Wallan, as noticed in my previous communication, and had been turned over unnoticed. Further excavations in this direction showed that the earth had not been moved, and all hope of finding other graves was abandoned.
II.—On the Site of Cambodunum. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.
Authors: Hunter Joseph
Published: June 2012

The object of the present communication is to lay before the Society of Antiquaries of London, first, a concise history of the extraordinary variations of opinion among the antiquaries who have devoted themselves to the study of the Roman antiquities of Britain, respecting the site of a station the name of which is preserved by Antonine, Cambodunum or Camulodunum, the copies of the Itinerary varying; and secondly, a piece of evidence which I have lately discovered which seems to me to go very far towards determining this long doubtful and unsettled question. I may add that if the evidence which will be produced is thought sufficient to establish the point, the opinion respecting the site of Cambodunum which has now for more than half a century had possession of the public mind will be shewn to be untenable, and a course of one of the principal roads made, or at least used, by the Romans, be shewn to be drawn with more of the wisdom which is justly attributed to that wise and noble people.
IV.—Account of the Muster of the Citizens of London in the 31st year of the reign of Henry VIII. Communicated from the Records of the Corporation of London, by Thomas Lott, Esq. F.S.A., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Lott Thomas
Published: June 2012

On making some researches amongst the Records of the Corporation, assisted by our able and intelligent officer Mr. Firth, my attention was led by him to a History of the Muster of the Citizens in the reign of King Henry VIII., contained in the Journal, No. 14, folio 166.

An old and valuable Fellow of our Society having at a recent meeting invited the junior branches to transmit communications, I have thought that the account of this Muster might form an interesting Paper, and I have therefore copied it, and forward it to you herewith.
IX.—Observations on the Mottoes “Houmout,” and “Ich Dien,” of Edward the Black Prince. By J.R. Planché, Esq., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Planché J. R.
Published: June 2012

As I believe I was the first to draw public attention to the absence of all contemporaneous authority for the derivation of the badge and motto of the Prince of Wales from the personal insignia of John King of Bohemia, slain at the battle of Cressy, and to express my doubts in consequence respecting such an origin, I read with much pleasure the interesting paper of Sir N. Harris Nicolas, in the last published part of the Archæologia, and now venture to offer a few remarks in further illustration of the subject.
X.—On the Claim of Hardwick in Derbyshire to have been one of the Residences of Mary Queen of Scots during her captivity in England. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.; preceded by a Letter from the Viscount Mahon, President, to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., Secretary, stating the wish of Prince Alexander Labanoff to obtain the opinion of the best English Antiquaries upon that subject
Authors: Mahon P. , Hunter Joseph
Published: June 2012

In a letter dated St. Petersburg, the 15th of March last, which I have received from Prince Alexander Labanoff, the accomplished editor of the “Correspondence of Queen Mary of Scots,” he expresses anxiety to ascertain the opinion of the best English antiquaries respecting the alleged residence of that princess at Hardwick Hall, now, as is well known, the property of the Duke of Devonshire. He states, that in 1839 some doubts were expressed to him by le savant Dr. Hunter, meaning, I conclude, our esteemed brother-member of the Society of Antiquaries the Rev. Joseph Hunter, whether in reality Queen Mary had ever been at Hardwick. At the time when those doubts were expressed to him, Prince Labanoff did not concur in them; but, on a further comparison of dates and consideration of circumstances, he has become convinced that those doubts are perfectly well founded. “After long research,” says he, “I am bound to acknowledge that no trace exists of any visit of Mary Stuart to Hardwick Hall; on the contrary, her correspondence appears to prove that she never was at that place.”
XII.— Observations on the Use of the Sling, as a Warlike Weapon, among the Ancients: in a Letter from Walter Hawkins, Esq. F.S.A., addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary: accompanying a Present to the Society of a Leaden-pellet or Sling-bullet, found lodged in the Cyclopian Walls of Samé in Cephalonia
Authors: Hawkins Walter
Published: June 2012

As I believe that the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London does not include a specimen of the Leaden-pellet or Sling-bullet of the Greeks, I do myself the honour to forward you one; of which, together with the accompanying drawing, I beg the Society's acceptance.
V. Observations on Female Head-dress in England, chiefly subsequent to the date of Mr. Strutt's Remarks in his “Habits of the People of England:” by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. K.H. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Repton John Adey
Published: June 2012

As Mr. Strutt, in his “Habits of the People of England,” has already given us a very full account of the female head-dress from the earliest periods, accompanied by many curious and interesting engravings, I shall confine my observations on the subject to those of a subsequent date.
VI. Account of the Old Bridge at Stratford-le-Bow in Essex, in a Letter from Alfred Burges, Esq. addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Burges Alfred
Published: June 2012

I have the honour to send you an account and some drawings of the celebrated Old Bridge at Stratford le-Bow, and I hope you will consider them of sufficient interest to be submitted to the Society of Antiquaries.

Since the paper was written, the greater part of the bridge has been taken down to give place to another of granite, of one arch, which is now in progress of erection under the direction of Mr. Walker and myself as engineers; and, should any further information respecting the Old Bridge be obtained during the progress of the work, I shall have great pleasure in transmitting it to you.
XI. A further Account of the original Architecture of Westminster Hall. In a Letter from Sydney Smirke, Esq. F.S.A. to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Smirke Sydney
Published: June 2012

Since the date of my last communication to you respecting the restoration of Westminster Hall now in progress under the direction of my brother, Sir Robert Smirke, the interior of that building has been completed, and the exterior is now under the hands of the mason. You will remember, that in the course of the internal repair, I stated that a vast number of carved stone fragments of the older Norman Hall were met with, which had been used in some cases as ashlaring for the new face given to the walls from the string-course upwards in the reign of Richard II., but in most cases merely as rubble for filling up and rendering solid those parts which had been previously void. Some of these fragments of the original building, however, had remained undisturbed in their proper positions; for it does not appear that those who were employed in renovating the Hall at the last mentioned period gave themselves the trouble to move more stones than was absolutely necessary in order to effect their alterations. By means of these undisturbed remains it has been an easy task to compose a complete restoration of one side of the Norman Hall, a drawing of which I have the pleasure to forward to you.
XIII. Documents relating to Perkin Warbeck, with Remarks on his history; communicated in a Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Aberdeen, Pres. S.A., from Sir Frederic Madden, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A.
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

Perhaps there is no individual, in the whole course of English History, whose character and pretensions have been enveloped in greater mystery, or occasioned more discussion, than those of the person who in the reign of King Henry the Seventh assumed the title of Richard Duke of York, and who is better known under the name of Perkin Warbeck. On both sides of the question—his being really heir, to the Crown, or an artful impostor—have appeared many able writers, and the controversy may yet scarcely be deemed decided. On the former side are the respectable names of Buck, Carte, Walpole, Henry (?), Laing, and Bayley; whilst on the other we have the united voices of all the early historians, and in more recent times, the authorities of Hume, Lingard, Sharon Turner, and Nicolas. It would be very easy, as Dr. Henry justly remarks, for us to adopt either of the two opinions, and support it by plausible arguments, but not so easy to establish its truth in such a manner as to leave no doubt on the subject. The advocates for Perkin's claims have derived a great advantage from the absence hitherto of those contemporary documents which might substantiate or refute the statements of the Tudor chroniclers, and have continually questioned the authenticity of the narrative, on the ground of its being the invention of the writer, or adopted from motives of political expediency. Any papers therefore which may assist us in forming a clearer judgment of this “mysterious personage,” or throw even a feeble ray on the obscurity with which the transactions of that period are clouded, appear to me to behighly deserving of attention; and with this view it is that I take the liberty of laying before the Society copies of some original documents, part of which have recently been brought to light, and the remainder (probably from the difficulty of decyphering them, or from other causes) hitherto unnoticed by all our historians.
XVI. Remarks on the Towneley Mysteries, in a Letter from the Rev. Lancelot Sharpe, M.A. (Camb.) F.S.A., addressed to Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.S.A. Treasurer
Authors: Sharpe Lancelot
Published: June 2012

I congratulate you, in common with all the lovers of our antique lore, on the publication of the “Towneley Mysteries” by the Surtees Society. I trust this volume is but the forerunner of a complete edition of the Chester and Coventry Plays, in a similarly elegant form; though with greater accuracy, and a more correct glossary. Mr. Markland, Mr. Collier, and Mr. Sharp, have shown how admirably competent they are to such a task, by the specimens with which already they have respectively enriched the literary world; and I hope they may be prevailed upon to complete the work.
XVII. Original Record of the Form of Public Entry of King Henry VIII. into Tournay, after the Surrender in 1513, and the Notification, by Queen Catharine of Arragon, of the Birth of the Princess Mary, to the Municipal Authorities of Tournay: Communicated by G. F. Beltz, Esq., K.H., F.S.A., Lancaster Herald, in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Sec.
Authors: Beltz G. F.
Published: June 2012

I send herewith a copy of the original record of the Form of Public Entry of King Henry VIII. into Tournay, after the surrender in 1513, which I lately met with in the Register, called (from its binding) “Cuir noir,” remaining amongst the archives of that city.
XX. A Letter from John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary, with an Account of a British Buckler, found in the bed of the River Isis, between Little Wittenham and Dorchester, in Oxfordshire
Authors: Gage John
Published: June 2012

The Gold British Corslet lately exhibited to the Society will be fresh in their recollection, and I now have the pleasure of submitting the drawing of a little round Buckler, (Pl. XXII.) recently added to the collection of Antiquities in the British Museum, which for its workmanship may be classed with the Corslet.
XXV. Remarks on the Matrix of the Seal of Boxgrave Priory, in Sussex; by Sir Frederic Madden, K.H. F.R.S. F.S.A. in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. F.R.S. Sec. S.A.
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

About six years ago I had the pleasure of submitting to the notice of the Society of Antiquaries, by the hands of our worthy Treasurer, impressions from the very curious matrix of the Seal of Southwick Priory in Hampshire; engravings of which, accompanied by some observations, were inserted in the twenty-third volume of the Archæologia, pp. 374-379. At that period I stated truly that it was the only existing matrix of a very peculiar mode of forming conventual Seals; but recently another instance has been discovered, some account of which may not be unacceptable. Some laborers at work in excavating a railway, the precise locality of which has not been ascertained, are stated to have dug up an earthen pot or urn, in which were found two original matrices of brass, which subsequently came.into the hands of Mr. Chamberlain, optician, of Broad Street, St. Giles's, in whose possession they now are, and by whose leave I am able to lay impressions of them before the Society. The most important proves to be the Seal of the Benedictine Priory of Boxgrave, in Sussex, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Blaise; the foundation of which by Robert de Haye took place in the reign of Henry the First, when it was annexed as a cell to the monastery of Essay, in Normandy; and although ordered to be suppressed in 1414, together with the other alien priories, continued to exist till the final dissolution under Henry the Eighth.
XXVI. Observations on the mode adopted by Masons at various and distant periods in forming a Straight Head over an Aperture. By Sydney Smirke, Esq. F.S.A., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Smirke Sydney
Published: June 2012

It was remarked by the late eminent engineer, Mr. Milne, that in his tour through the classical regions of Europe, he derived more professional benefit from an examination of the construction of ancient masonry than from any other subject that engaged his attention. Although it is not to be expected that the Antiquary will regard this subject with equal interest, yet I think a little experience will convince him that a careful consideration of the technical construction of ancient buildings is not wholly devoid either of utility or interest, and may render him important assistance in determining their date. In confirmation of this I need only point to the admirable essay of one of our most distinguished members, Mr. Hamilton, on the Ancient Fortresses of Greece, in the fifteenth volume of Archæologia; an essay which I have always regarded as a model of antiquarian inquiry, and one not surpassed in point of interest and value by any of our published Transactions.
IV. On the Municipal Archives of the City of Canterbury. By Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., Hon. M.R.S.L., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, &c.; as communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by the Central Committee of the British Archæological Association
Authors: Wright Thomas
Published: June 2012

A Large portion of the following observations was read in the Historical Section at the meeting of the British Archaeological Association at Canterbury, on the 13th of September, 1844. The great object of that meeting, and the one to promote which we are all associated together, is the preservation of historical monuments of every description, and among these there are none of more importance than written records. The cromlech and the barrow, by their contents, give us some insight into the manners of a people whose history is lost in the darkness of primaeval fable. The monuments of a later period, more numerous and far more varied in their character, necessarily furnish a greater number of facts; but even the information they convey would be exceedingly imperfect—a few scattered links only out of a long disjointed chain—had we no written documents to fill up the interval and to connect them together. It is indeed to these written documents that we must look for history itself; the others, although of an importance which cannot be too much insisted upon, being but secondary to them.
VI. Observations upon the Succession to the Barony of William of Arques, in the County of Kent, during the period between the Conquest of England and the Reign of King John. By Thomas Stapleton, Esq. F.S.A.; as communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by the Central Committee of the Archæological Association
Authors: Stapleton Thomas
Published: June 2012

In connection with the history of the shire of Kent, in which we are now assembled, I offer the following Observations, illustrative of the succession to the Barony of William of Arques, i. e. de Arcis, in this realm, during the medieval period of time between the Conquest of England and the reign of King John. In that invaluable record, Domesday Book, which commences with the survey of Kent, we read, under the general heading “Land of the Bishop of Bayeux,” this entry, as to the tenure in that shire of William de Arcis: “In Limowart Lest, in Fulchestan Hundred, William de Arcis holds Fulchestan. In the time of King Edward it was avouched for 40 solins, and now for 39. There is land of 120 ploughs. In the demesne are 14 ploughs, and there are 209 villani and 83 bordarii. Amongst them all they have 45 ploughs.