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IV. Account of the Horn belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in a Letter to Mr. Gough, from the Rev. Mr. Tyson, Fellow of the said College
Authors: Tyson
Published: July 2016

At your request, I send you a drawing of a horn which formerly belonged to the gild of Corpus Christi, the original founders of our college. It appears from the manuscript Historiola of the College (probably written by Jocelyn, secretary to archbishop Parker) that this horn was presented to the gild by their alderman, John Goldcorne, about the year 1347. “Johannes de Goldcorn, “quum suo tempore erat aldermannus gildae, dedit magnum cor “nu potatorium ornatum operculo cum suis appendicibus ex ar “gento deaurato, quo usi sunt ejusdem gildae fratres in festo prae “cipue Corporis Christi sane liberaliter.” See Fuller's History of the University of Cambridge, page 45; and Masters's History of Corpus Christi College, page 3. The operculum, or cover, mentioned by Jocelyn and Fuller, is since lost, though it was probably fixed by a chain to the two rings marked (a) in the drawing. The head at the extremity of the horn may probably be intended for the reigning monarch Edward the Third. On the front of the large end are the arms of the College.
XII. Mr. Pegge's Observations on the Growth of the Vine in England considered and answered, by the Hon. Daines Barrington, in a Letter to the Rev. the Dean of Exeter
Authors: Barrington Daines
Published: July 2016

As you was so obliging the other day as to permit me to peruse some objections which Mr. Pegge bath made to what I have said in “The Observations upon the ancient Statutes,” with regard to vines not having been cultivated in England some centuries since; I have read his remarks with that attention with which the arguments of so learned an antiquary will always deserve to be considered.
XV. Mr. GOUGH, on the DEAE MATRES
Authors: Gough
Published: July 2016

Among the unknown Gods which seem to have been introduced at Rome, or worshiped in her provinces, and occur in inscriptions in the later periods of her empire, the Deae Matres have given no small trouble to Antiquaries.
XVIII. Memoir concerning the Sac-Friars, or Fratres de Poenitentia Jesu Christi, as settled here in England. By the Reverend Mr. Pegge
Authors: Pegge
Published: July 2016

St. Francis of Assise instituted, as we are told by Hospinian, three different classes of Religion. The first, which was the strictest and most perfect order, and of which he himself was a member, was the Fratres Minores. The second, consisting of Sisters, was the poor Clares; and the third was the Poenitentes; or, as they are called by Anthony a Wood, Poenitentiarii. These last had their beginning A. D. 1221, when one Lucius was the first Brother. This account, however, does not at all accord with that which is given by John Bale, on the authority of Thomas Eccleston. He says, the order commenced in Provence, A. D. 1245, when the General Council of Lyons was sitting, by means of an expelled Novice; which is very inconsistent with St. Francis's being the founder of it, since he died A. D. 1226. Of these two different accounts of the rise of this Fraternity it may perhaps be no easy matter to determine which is the truest. I incline however to the latter, as Eccleston was a Franciscan, and flourished so soon after the time. Yet one may justly wonder at the Rev. Mr. Tanner, for saying he could find no account of the original of this Order. But be this as it will, the Order was confirmed by Pope Nicholas IV, according to Hospinian, who began to sit A. D. 1288, and died 1299.
XXIII. A Dissertation on a singular Coin of Nerva, in a Letter to Matthew Duane, Esquire, from the Reverend Mr. Ashby, B. D. President of St. John's College, Cambridge
Authors: Ashby
Published: July 2016

I Think myself particularly happy in being encouraged to address the following account of a medal to you; because I apprehend that no other proof will be required of its genuineness, than the being able to say, that it has been left with you for several months, and that you have no doubts about it. It is indeed of the finest preservation, being uniformly covered with a green patine; was found about six years ago in Mr. Wegg's garden at Colchester, and by him given to his neighbour Charles Gray, Esquire, Member of Parliament for that ancient Borough, Fellow of the Royal Society, and one of the fifteen elected Trustees of the British Museum; a gentleman, whose love of the antique forms but a small part of his excellent character; who has for many years so happily united the scholar with the man of business, the magistrate, and the senator.
XXVII. An Account of some ancient English Historical Paintings at Cowdry, in Sussex. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe. Bart. V.P.A.S. and F.R.S.
Authors: Ayloffe Joseph
Published: July 2016

In a Memoir which I formerly laid before the Society, touching the royal picture of the interview between King Henry VIII. and the French King Francis the First, I took notice of the advantages which might result to the historian and antiquary from a careful inspection of such remaining historic paintings and sculptures, as, being executed with accuracy and fidelity, are coaeval with the transactions they are intended to record.
XXIX. Discoveries in a Barrow in Derbyshire. Communicated by Mr. Mander, of Bakewell, in the said County
Authors: Mander
Published: July 2016

Upon the commons of Winstor, a village within the King's great manor de Alto Pecco, which were lately inclosed, are divers barrows, or tumuli, chiefly of stone, and among the rest one of earth, which the inhabitants account the more singular. This being lately opened, there were found in it two glass vessels, between eight and ten inches in height, with wide circular mouths, and a little bulge in the middle, and containing about a pint of water, of a light greenish colour, and exceeding limpid. With these was also found a silver collar or bracelet, about an inch broad, joining at the ends in dovetail fashion, and studded with human heads, and other small ornaments, secured by rivets, which might occasionally be detached.
XXXVII. Account of a Roman Pavement, with Wheat underneath it, found at Colchester. By the Rev. Dr. Griffith; communicated by Edward King, Esq; in a Letter to the Secretary
Authors: Griffith
Published: July 2016

Having received, from the Reverend Dr. Griffith, Rector of St. Mary Hill, the inclosed account of a curious discovery lately made at Colchester, I take the liberty to trouble you with it; that, if you esteem it at all worthy the attention of the Society, you may communicate it to them. I will only just take the liberty to add, that, in pulling down the old tower of the church at Mold, in North Wales, last year, a great quantity of grain was found buried under its foundations in like manner; and that probably it was deposited in both places, in consequence of some ancient superstitious custom.
XVIII. An Account of the Register of Persons who sought Sanctuary at S John of Beverley in Yorkshire, preserved among the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum; in a Letter from Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A. to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: July 2016

Among the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum is a thin folio volume written upon vellum, marked No 4292, and containing the Register of Persons who sought Sanctuary for different crimes at St. John of Beverley in Yorkshire, in the reigns of King Edward the Fourth, King Henry the Seventh, and King Henry the Eighth. The book-binder by whom it appears to have been rebound of later years, seems to have mixed some of the leaves, or, at least, to have put the entries of King Edward the Fourth's time after some of those of King Henry the Seventh's.
XX. A Memoir on the Office of Cuneator, by the Rev. Rogers Ruding, B.D. F.S.A. addressed to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Ruding Rogers
Published: July 2016

I have herewith sent a brief Memoir on the Office of Cuneator, in the hope that, if you should think it worthy to be laid before the Society, some of our Members, whose researches may have been more successful than mine, will, by their communication, enable me to form a more decided opinion upon the nature of that office.
XXIX. An Account of some Druidical Remains in the Island of Guernsey. By Joshua Gosselin, Esq. in a Letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. F.S.A.
Authors: Gosselin Joshua
Published: July 2016

A small temporary redoubt was constructed some few years back, on a height near the shore, on the left of Lancresse Bay, three miles from the town in this island. The ground on which this redoubt stood, being composed of a sandy turf, was by degrees levelled by the wind, and the edges of some stones were thereby discovered, which, upon inspection, I immediately knew to belong to a Cromlech or Druidical Temple. I send you a drawing of this Temple, (Plate XVIII.) as it appeared after the sand, which had covered it to the depth of three or four feet, was removed. The two parallel black lines on the back ground, I imagine to have been the sod covered, at different times, with an accumulation of sand blown on it by the wind. I send you also a plan of the surface of the Temple, with the respective measurements of the stones. (Pl. XIX.) They are of a greyish granite, such as form the rocks in that neighbourhood, and are of a rude shape, having the under part flat. The largest of these stones weighs about 20 tons. They are supported by stones of the same kind; of the number and breadth marked in the plan with a dotted line, the highest being about 6½ feet above the ground.
XXX. Remarks on the Fortresses of ancient Greece. By William Hamilton, Esq. Junior, F.A.S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Hamilton William
Published: July 2016

I have the honour of submitting through your channel to the Society of Antiquaries the accompanying account of the ancient fortresses of Greece. In drawing up this paper, it has not been my object to collect from the writings of the ancients, all that has been said by them on this interesting subject, but to lay before the Society the result of my own observations upon it, during the course of my late tour in that country. A comparison of these remains with what the cotemporaries, or descendants of those who raised them, have transmitted to us in their writings, may form the subject of a future memoir. I have here confined myself to a few remarks on the origin of the fortified cities of ancient Greece, the characteristics of the different æra's in which they were built, and of the situations which were chosen for them. Far from pretending to exhaust the subject, I have merely endeavoured to point out an object, deserving, as I conceive it, the labours of the antiquary and the historian. I beg the indulgence of the Society, for the inadequacy of the performance to the task.
XXXII. Description of the ancient Building at Norwich, which is the subject of the preceding Paper. By John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Repton John Adey
Published: July 2016

When I was in Norwich, in July last, I made some drawings of a building then pulling down, and since almost destroyed. As the style and character of this building is of singular beauty, for the early date to which I suppose it to belong, I shall only describe the parts, by a reference to the drawings; after transcribing the following extract from Blomefield's History of Norfolk.
V. Account of an Ancient Manuscript of St. John's Gospel, by the Rev. John Milner, F.A.S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Milner John
Published: July 2016

I herewith send to you, for the inspection of the Society, a literary curiosity, namely a M.S. copy of St. John's Gospel, which is certainly between eleven and twelve hundred years old, and which is said to have been taken out of the tomb of St. Cuthbert, the celebrated patron-saint of Durham and Bishop of Lindisfarne.
VI. Copy of an original Minute of Council for Preparations for the Ceremonial of the Funeral of Queen Catherine, the divorced Wife of King Henry the Eighth; communicated by William Illingworth, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Illingworth William
Published: July 2016

I beg leave to enclose to you a transcript of an original minute, or remembrance of council, preserved amongst the Records in the Chapter-house, Westminster, for preparations for the ceremonial of the public funeral of Catherine, the divorced wife of King Henry the Eighth.
XIII. An Inventory of certain Articles delivered out of the Armory at the Tower; contained in the Schedule to a Writ of Privy Seal,Anno 33 Henry VI. preserved among the Records in the Tower; communicated by Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

By this Writ, the Chancellor was directed to prepare letters patent under the great seal, according to the form therein contained, in which is the following clause, “Pardonavimus remisimus & relaxavimus Joh'i Stanley seniori hostiario camere n're, alias dc'o Joh'i Stanley seniori de Batersey in com' Sur' armigero, alias dc'o Joh'i Stanley armigero servienti armatur' nr'e, alias d'co Joh'i Stanley nup' de Wyrall in com' Cestr' armigero, seu quocumq' alio no'ie censeatr. o'imod' tñsgressiones offensas mesprisiones contemptus & impetico'es p' ipum' Johem ante presentem diem contra formam statutor' de liberatis pannor' & tapicior' fc'os sive p'petratos unde punicio caderet in finem & redempc'oem aut in alias penas pecuniarias seu imprisonamenta statut' predc'is nonobstantib'
XXVII. An Account of the Rosetta Stone, in three languages, which was brought to England in the year 1802
Authors: Turner Tomkyns Hilgrove , Weston Stephen , Heyne Chr. G. , Combe Taylor , Raper Matt.
Published: July 2016

On the eleventh of March, in the year 1802, the Society of Antiquaries received a letter from Granville Penn, Esq. informing them that, by the desire of Lord Hobart, he had forwarded two cases for the inspection of the Society, and to remain in their custody till further directions for the removal of them to the British Museum.
XLI. An Account of a curious Carving in Ivory; belonging to Richard Haynes, Esq. in a Letter from Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S. late Director, to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

At the request of the Rev. Dr. Cooke, Rector of Tortworth, in Gloucestershire, I send you herewith an ancient horn, much resembling the celebrated horn of Ulphus, preserved in the cathedral at York, (an engraving of which is published in the first volume of the Monumenta Vetusta), and a very curious piece of carving in Ivory, in bas-relief, both belonging to Richard Haynes, Esq. of Wick, in the county of Gloucester; begging that you will exhibit them to the Society of Antiquaries, at the first convenient opportunity. I subjoin a note of what immediately occurs to me on the subject of the bas-relief, which appears to bear a near analogy to some of those on the curious ivory casket, which formerly belonged to the Rev. John Bowie, and after-wards to Mr. Brander, and which is now in the possession of Mr. Douce; the bas-reliefs of which have been published by Mr. Carter, in his work on the Remains of Ancient Sculpture and Painting: like those, it seems to have been taken from some allegorical romance. The date of this may be very nearly ascertained, from a peculiarity in the armour of some of the Knights, which, I believe, first occurs in the latter end of the thirteenth century, and did not continue in fashion longer than the fourteenth.
XLIV. An Account of a Golden Rod, found by a Peasant in the Neighbourhood of Ballycastle, in the County of Antrim.In a Letter from John Alexander M'Naghton, Esq. and communicated by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B., P. R. S., and F.A.S.
Authors: M'Naghton John Alexander
Published: July 2016

I take the liberty of sending you the enclosed drawing. It represents something (I know not what to call it) lately found by a poor peasant in the neighbourhood of Ballycastle, in the county of Antrim. It is made of the purest gold, and weighs twenty-two ounces. It is made of three distinct pieces, twisted in the manner represented in the drawing. It is in the hands of a gentleman at Ballycastle, who wishes to dispose of it for the person who found it. It struck me as being a very singular curiosity; I therefore requested it might not be disposed of, until I should have the honour of writing to you about it, as I thought it very likely it might be thought worthy of a place in the British Museum. The hook at one end was broken off by the person who found it, but it is preserved. I desired that the length of the hooks should be given, with the other dimensions; this has been neglected, but I think they are two inches long. They are solid, and certainly were not soldered to the twisted part. I flatter myself you will excuse the liberty I have taken in addressing you in this respect.
I. Account of some Roman Antiquities discovered at Exeter. By the President
Authors: Milles Jer.
Published: July 2016

I have the honour to lay before the Society some elegant Roman Penates in bronze, which were discovered last July in digging a cellar under the house of Mr. Upham, situated in the High street at Exeter, at the corner of Broad-gate, which leads from that street to the Close of the Cathedral Church. They were found within a very narrow space, and not more than three or four feet below the present pavement of the street.
IV. Account of a singular Stone among the Rocks at West Hoadley, Sussex, by Thomas Pownall, Esq. F.S.A. and F.R.S.
Authors: Pownall Thomas
Published: July 2016

The curious particulars which you had heard of, and had communicated to me, respecting the great pensile-Rock at West Hoadley, in Sussex, (called by the people Great upon Little), raised my curiosity, and determined me at a leisure day to make an excursion to view and examine it.
IX. A further Description of antient Fortifications in the North of Scotland, by Mr. James Anderson, in a Letter to the late John Lind, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq.
Authors: Anderson James
Published: July 2016

I had some time ago the honor of communicating to our Society some remarks of Mr. Anderson on antiquities remaining in the north of Scotland. The Society has judged them worthy of a place in their late publication [a]. I persuade myself therefore I shall be rendering an acceptable service to the Society in communicating to them some farther remarks of the same very ingenious gentleman on the same subject, and which I have now the honor of inclosing to you.
X. Observations on the vitrified Walls in Scotland, by the Hon. Daines Barrington. In a Letter to the Secretary
Authors: Barrington Daines
Published: July 2016

I send herewith a drawing of what is supposed to have been a vitrified fort on the S. W. end of the island of Bute, and which still goes by the name of Dunagoyle. I am obliged for this elegant and accurate plan to Sir David Dalrymple, one of the lords of Session, who was so good as to transmit at the same time one of the vitrified stones, of which parts of the wall were composed.
XIX. Account of an Historical Monument in Britanny. By Mons. D'Auvergne
Authors: D'Auvergne P.
Published: July 2016

Returning in December 1780 from viewing antiquities in the neighbourhood of the Morbiban, late the Mare conclusum of Cæsar, I took in my way the town of Ploemmel, famous in the history of the province for having been the seat of the foreign dukes, when Britanny maintained its independance.
XXI. Remarks on the Sumatran Languages, by Mr. Marsden. In a Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. President of the Royal Society
Authors: Marsden William
Published: July 2016

Encouraged by the attention you paid to the subject when I had the honor of conversing with you on it, I take the liberty of presenting you with two comparative specimens of the languages spoken in Sumatra and other parts of the east. The one exhibits simply a list of fifty words; of universal use from the nature of the ideas they express; as spoken in twelve different countries or districts. The other exhibits a view of those words in the Sumatran and neighbouring languages; which are observed to correspond in sound and signification, with words in the languages of places situated at a distance from thence.
XXVII. Sequel to the Observations on Ancient Castles. By Edward King, Esq.
Authors: King Edward
Published: July 2016

Permit me now to communicate to the Society of Antiquaries, the sequel of such observations as I have had an opportunity to make with regard to the slructure of ancient castles; a subject, which, however ill I may have succeeded in treating of it, appears to me capable of throwing considerable light on the history of our country; and therefore I cannot but still endeavour to make every effort in my power to elucidate it; wishing my attempts to be a means of exciting others to make more successful enquiries.
I. Observations on the Situation of the antient Portus Iccius. By the Rev. Mr. Lyon, F. A. S. in a Letter to Daniel Minet, Esq. F. R. S. and F. A. S.
Authors: Lyon John
Published: July 2016

If you think the annexed sheets will cast any additional light on a controverted point of Julius Caesar's account of his expedition to Britain, I shall be obliged to you to present them to the Antiquarian Society.
IX. Druidical and other British remains in Cumberland, described by Hayman Rooke, Esq. F.A.S. in a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Lort
Authors: Rooke Hayman
Published: July 2016

When I had the pleasure of seeing you at Rose Castle, I mentioned my having discovered some singular sepulchres of the ancient Britons ; and if you think the following account of them is worthy of being laid before the Society, I shall take the liberty of troubling you to present it.
XII. Observations on the Machine called the Lewis. By Francis Gibson, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Mulgrave, F.A.S.
Authors: Gibson Francis
Published: July 2016

As I flatter myself that every attempt, however feeble, to illustrate the venerable remains of antiquity some degree with your lordsip's approbation, I have been induced to hazard my opinion on the state of mechanics of the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries, and shall be happy if your lordship judges it worthy the attention of the Society of Antiquaries.
XXV. Three Letters from Mr. Samuel Carte to Dr. Ducarel, and one to Sir Thomas Cave, Bart. concerning Fonts
Authors: Carte Samuel
Published: July 2016

I send herewith an abstract of what I take to be the most material passages in my collections heretofore concerning fonts. Indeed I am almost ashamed to lay them before you; but either the subject is very barren, or I have been very unfortunate in my searches, particularly I have not met with any authentic account of the pedestal or foundation of the font, and very little concerning the cover or superstructure, Mr. Newcourt, in his account of Allhallows, Barking, (I. 249.) mentions a cross over the font, and some images or pictures over the canopy thereof, a petition to the bishop, and hearing concerning them before his chancellor Dr. Duck, and an order for taking them down, and setting up other ornaments in their stead. Perhaps the records in this proceeding may afford you greater light than the tedious narrative in the inclosed. I shall be glad to hear the result of your maturer thoughts on this subject; shall hope to see you in a short time.
XXIX. Remarks on the Stalls near the Communion Table in Maidstone Church, with an Enquiry into the Place of Burial of Archbishop Courtney. By the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.A.S. In a Letter to Richard Gough, Director.
Authors: Denne Samuel
Published: July 2016

I am much obliged to you for having exhibited to our Society the drawing made by Mr. Fisher of certain stalls now remaining on the south side of the chancel of Maidstone church. But previous to my stating the supposed time of their construction, with such an illustration of them as may be thought requisite, I will offer some general observations relative to similar seats that are still to be seen in parochial as well as cathedral and collegiate churches.
XXX. Further Remarks on Stone Seats in the Chancels of Churches, Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial. By the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.A.S.
Authors: Denne Samuel
Published: July 2016

Some observations by the late Mr. Wells on the stalls exhibited in Vetusta Monumenta, not coinciding with the remarks that accompanied the drawing of the stalls in Maidstone church presented by me to the Society; I have judged it expedient to revise my letter to Mr. Gough, with the view of retracting my surmises, had I found them entirely groundless: but after deliberately examining the two papers, and I trust without a bias of prejudice to my own, I must confess I do not see reason to alter my sentiments. Before I consider the observations of this ingenious gentleman, I cannot forbear expressing a regret that our body should be deprived of a member, not long enrolled in our list, whose zealous ardour for researches into subjects of antiquity, assiduously pursued from an early part of life, so properly qualified him to answer the purposes of our institution.
II. Extracts from the Household-Book of Thomas Cony, of Bassingthorpe, c. Lincoln. In a Letter to the Earl of Leicester, P. S. A.By Edmund Turnor, Esq. F. A. & R. S.
Authors: Turnor Edmund
Published: July 2016

If after the publication of a volume of royal household establishments, the Society can be supposed to give any attention to a detail of the property and expences of a wealthy merchant in the fixteenth century, I must beg that your lordship will do me the honour to lay before them some extracts from the household-book of Thomas Cony, of Bassingthorpe, in the county of Lincoln, Esq. merchant of the staple of Calais, and merchant adventurer of England.
VI. Observations on a Greek Inscription at London. By Mr. Gough. In a Letter to the Rev. T. W. Wrighte, Secretary
Authors: Gough
Published: July 2016

The drawing that accompanies this was purchased by me at the late Dr. Lort's sale, and represents a bas releif on white marble, found by Mr. Milles, a builder, among the ruins of a house at Islington. The date of this discovery is not mentioned, nor when it was fixed up in the front of a warehouse in High Timber-street, near Labour-in-vain-hill. But it must have been at least twenty years ago, as I recollect to have heard of it from our late treasurer Mr. Colebrook, who died 1775. I sought for it without success, so long ago, and having repeated my inquiries after it since I became possesed of the drawing, I had the mortification to find that the house wherein it was fixed had been re-built, and no intelligence was to be obtained of the figure.
XIII. Observations on antient Spurs. By Francis Grose, Esq. F. A. S. In a Letter to John Topham, Esq.
Authors: Grose Francis
Published: July 2016

Having observed that the equestrian figures on the Great Seals of most of our kings and ancient barons from the Conquest to the time of Edward III. are represented with spurs consisting of only one point, somewhat resembling the gassle with which fighting cocks are armed, I have endeavoured to trace out the origin of these spurs, which appear to have been worn after the invention of the rouelle, or wheel spur (so called from the revolution of its spicula about an axis), several of our kings and great barons being on different seals sometimes represented with one, and sometimes with the other species.
XVIII. Observations on Card-playing. By the Rev. Mr. Bowle. In a Letter to the Hon. Daines Barrington.
Authors: Bowle
Published: July 2016

As you did me the honour to impart to me your sentiments on cards, I will take the liberty to mention to you what I formerly noted down, and have investigated upon this matter.
XXIII. Observations on the Origin of Printing. By Ralph Willett, Esq. F. A. R. S. In a Letter to Owen Salusbury Brereton, Esq.
Authors: Willett Ralph
Published: July 2016

The observations which you desire me to make concerning the “Speculum Salutis” in my possession, will be few, unless I am permitted to enter a little more largely into the subject of early printing.
XXV. Account of an antient Inscription in North America. By the Rev. Michael Lort, D.D.V.P.A.S.
Authors: Lort Michael
Published: July 2016

The monuments of antient art noticed in North America have been so few, that the discovery of any such has a particular claim to the attention of the learned in any part of the globe. When therefore I had found in a publication in that part of it [a], the following reference made to an antient inscription discovered on a rock in Taunton River in Narraganset Bay, I thought this an object worthy the attention of the Society.
XXVII. Observations on the Barberini Vase. By John Glen King, D. D. Addressed to the Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries.
Authors: King John Glen
Published: July 2016

I take the liberty to send your Lordship the thoughts which have occurred to me on seeing the famous Roman urn, called the Barberini Vase, in the collection of the late duchess dowager of Portland. I should have had the honour of sending this account many months ago, if I could have procured a tolerable drawing of it; or the engraving made from it by Bartolozzi, after the celebrated Cypriani's drawing. Indeed, two such artists as those only could do justice to so admirable an original.
XXVIII. An Essay on the elegant ornamental Cameos of the Barberini Vase, with a View to an Explanation of them, and their reference to History. By Charles Marsh, Esq. F.A.S. Addressed to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary.
Authors: Marsh Charles
Published: July 2016

The Barberini Vase being at present the subject of much speculation, I request the favour of you to lay before the Society some conjectures which have amused me respecting several traits of history apparently sketched in the exquisite Cameos on that elegant piece of workmanship. They are offered entirely subject to correction, and better interpretation. It seems to me, where history is concerned, to be very fair to have recourse to it for the explanation of any piece of art which may be of modern discovery. I learn that this vase was found within a sepulchral monument in the Monte del Grano, at Rome according to the words of the historian, who says, of Alexander Severus, Romæ sepulchrum amplissimum meruit. I shall only add, that, among the figures represented by Bartoli as extant on one of the sides of the grand Sarcophagus, is one whose head and manner perfectly resembles the Jupiter or Guardian Genius, which, in the vase, is contemplating the event of Alexander Severus's existence.
XII. On the Progress of Gardening. In a Letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington to the Rev. Mr. Norris Secretary
Authors: Barrington Daines
Published: July 2016

As the progress in architecture from the earliest and rudest times hath frequently been the subject of dissertation, perhaps it may not be uninteresting to trace the gradual improvements in both fruit and pleasure gardens.
XXII. Account of Antiquities discovered in the Neighbourhood of Bagshot, in July 1783. In a Letter addressed to the late President, the Dean of Exeter
Authors: Handasyd Talbot Blayney
Published: July 2016

The following account of some late discovered antiquities I take the liberty of laying before you, as the properest person to communicate it to the honourable Society of which you are president, should you think it of consequence sufficient to entitle it to their notice. The drawing that accompanies it you will examine with an eye of candour, when I inform you it is the produce of untaught abilities.
XXIV. Observations on the Chariots of the antient Britains. By the Rev. Mr. Pegge. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris
Authors: Pegge
Published: July 2016

Besides the common mistake of the annalists and historians in regard to this passage in Juvenal,

Regem aliquem capies, aut de temone Britanno

Excidet Arviragus—Juvenal IV. 126.

By taking Arviragus for the proper name of a person, and not of an officer; the words of the satyrist are memorable in another respect, as serving to inform us, by the word temone, of a singular mode of fighting amongst the Britons; as if by leaving his carriage, and running upon the pole, the combatant from thence, or from the yoke, engaged the enemy, as long as he thought prudent and convenient, and then retreated back into the body of the vehicle.
XXXI. An Account of some artificial Caverns in the Neighbourhood of Bombay: By Mr. William Hunter, Surgeon in the East Indies
Authors: Hunter William
Published: July 2016

In different parts of the island of Salsette, and in the neighbourhood of that of Bombay, we meet with some most stupendous monuments of human labour and ingenuity; which would be matter of admiration in any part of the world, but must astonish us still more, when we find them in a country remarkable for the indolence of its present inhabitants. These are a set of enormous excavations, all of which are made in solid rocks, and decorated with a variety of figures, most curiously cut from the same substance with the caverns themselves.
XXXVI. Subsidy Roll of 51 Edward III. communicated by John Topham, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A.
Authors: Topham John
Published: July 2016

I have the honour to lay before the Society the transcript of a record, which, in my opinion, contains some valuable, historical facts. It is divided into three parts. The first part contains the return of a subsidy granted by parliament to king Edward III. in the fifty-first year of his reign A. D. 1377, of four pence to be paid by every lay person in the kingdom, as well male as female, of the age of fourteen years and upwards; real mendicants only excepted. The grant of this subsidy may be seen in that valuable repository of historical information the Rolls of Parliament, vol. II. p. 364. This return states the sums of money which had been levied by the collectors of this tax in the different counties, cities, and principal towns in England, separately; and the number of persons at that time being in each county, city and town, subject to the payment thereof.
XLIV. Collections on the Zingara, or Gypsey Language; by Jacob Bryant, Esq. transmitted to O. Salusbury Brereton, Esq. in a Letter from the Rev. Dr. Douglas
Authors: Bryant Jacob , Douglas
Published: July 2016

Having been present at the meeting of the Society when Mr. Marsden's letter on the Gypsey language, was read, I recollected that, several years ago, I had heard my friend Mr. Bryant mention his having collected a considerable number of words used by this wandering tribe; several of which words appeared to bear a close affinity to those of the same meaning in the languages of ancient and of distant nations.
VI. An Account of some Antiquities found at Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire, in a Letter addressed to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary; by the Rev. E. D. Clarke, LL.D. Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge
Authors: Clarke E. D.
Published: July 2016

The observations already transmitted to the Society of Antiquaries, respecting some Celtic remains discovered near Sawston, were hardly communicated to the Society when our attention was again called to similiar antiquities of much more elegant form, and very superior workmanship, that were found by a party of labourers in the service of Greaves Townley, Esq. of Fulbourn, as they were digging upon Fulbourn common. Mr. Townley had the kindness to send these men to me at Cambridge, with the curious reliques they had brought to light; and as he allowed me to make what use of them I pleased, I am enabled to lay before the Society such other remarks as appear to me to be worthy of notice; accompanied, as before, with a drawing, by Mr. Kerrich, of the things as they were found, remarkable for its fidelity and exactness of delineation.
VII. Observations on the Seal of Evesham Abbey in Worcestershire. By William Hamper, Esq. Communicated in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Hamper William
Published: July 2016

The Seal of Evesham Abbey, in the County of Worcester, having been hitherto imperfectly delineated and explained, particularly as respects its inscriptions, I beg you to do me the favour of laying before the Society of Antiquaries a restored outline of that very interesting subject, Pl. V. which I have completed from two Impressions of the Seal, in my own possession, aided in a very few parts by the Plate of it in Tindal's History of Evesham.
XVIII. Communication of the Seal and Style of the Master and Chaplains of the Savoy Hospital in the Strand. By William Bray, Esq. Treasurer, in a Letter to Samuel Lysons, Esq. Vice President, &c. &c
Authors: Bray William
Published: July 2016

The Savoy in the Strand was built by Peter de Savoy, uncle to Queen Eleanor, wife of Hen. III. and took its name from the builder. It belonged to Hen. VII. as Duke of Lancaster, and he began to build an Hospital here to provide lodging, food, fire, and attendance, for a certain time, for the poor, sick, lame, or travellers. Stow tells us, that this king died before he had finished it, but by his will provided for that purpose, and left it well endowed. It was completed by his son Hen. VIII. who perhaps spared it on the dissolution from respect to his father's memory. It did not escape so well in the time of his successor; King Edward's guardians seized it under an act which they got passed for suppression of Chantries. The estates were, however, applied to better purposes than many others were; the king gave them with Bridewell to the city of London, to found a workhouse for poor and idle persons, and to enable them to finish the hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark.
XXII. Account of further Discoveries of the Remains of a Roman Villa at Bignor in Sussex. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. V.P. F.R.S.
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

Since the early part of the year 1815, when I communicated to the Society of Antiquaries an account of the remains of a Roman villa discovered at Bignor in Sussex, further discoveries have been made, to a considerable extent, as will appear by the annexed plan, (Pl. XIII.) in which the several rooms, contained in the plan published in the eighteenth volume of the Archaeologia, are marked with figures from No. 1 to No. 26, and from 28 to 44.
XXIX. An Account of the Confinement of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, by Order of Queen Elizabeth, in 1570, first at the house of Alderman Becher, in London, and then at Loseley in Surrey, the seat of Wm. More, Esq. (afterwards Sir Wm.) taken from Original Papers there preserved, and now in the possession of James More Molyneux, Esq. the representative of that Family (1819.) Communicated by Wm. Bray, Esq. Treasurer
Authors: Bray William
Published: July 2016

Mr. Camden, in his History of Queen Elizabeth, says that on the 7th Sept. 1571, the Duke of Norfolk was sent to the Tower (from whence he had been released a year before) on account of some practices with the Queen of Scots; and says, “Afterwards Banister who was the Duke's Counsellor of Law, the Earls of Arundell and Southampton, the Lord Lumley, the Lord Cobham and Thomas his brother, Henry Percy, Lowder, Powell, Goodyer, and others, were committed to prison, who every one of them, in hopes of pardon, confessed what they knew.”
XXX. Copy of a Survey of the Priory of Bridlington, in Yorkshire, taken about the 32dyear of Henry VIII. Communicated by John Caley, Esq. F.S.A. Keeper of the Records in the Chapter-House at Westminster: in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Caley John
Published: July 2016

It is much to be regretted that the Surveys of the Religious Houses dissolved in the reign of King Henry the Eighth, preserved in the Augmentation Office and Chapter-House at Westminster, do not, in general, describe the state of the edifices themselves at that period with any degree of exactness. I have, however, found in the latter Repository, a survey of the Priory of Bridlington, in the East Riding of the County of York, which is not liable to this objection, and which, on that account, you may perhaps think deserving of being read to the Society of Antiquaries; for this purpose I beg leave to enclose a Transcript of it. The Survey is without date, but from its having the signature of Richard Pollard, who was one of the King's General Surveyors, the time of its being written may be fixed at about the thirty-second year of Henry VIIIth, immediately after the Dissolution. I will merely add, that the Priory of Bridlington was a Priory of Black Canons, of the Order of St. Austin, and that it was founded by Waiter de Gant, early in the reign of King Henry the First.
XXXI. A Dissertation on the Lotus of Antiquity. By R. Duppa, Esq. LL.B. F.S.A.
Authors: Duppa R.
Published: July 2016

The Lotus of the ancients has given rise to many interesting inquiries among the learned; but, like the Pale Violet of Horace and of Virgil, and the Hyacinth of the Greek and Latin poets, we are still without any certain or accurate knowledge upon the subject. In this short Essay, which I presume to lay before the Society to which I have the honour to belong, I propose to shew from ancient authors, that plants of very different characters were known to the Greeks by the name of Lotus: but the particular object which I have in this dissertation, is to shew that the Indian plant known to the Greeks by the name of Κύαμος and Αἰγύπτις κύαμος, and to us by Nelumbium speciosum, or Cyamus nelumbo, was never called Lotus by the ancient Greeks or Egyptians; and I have been the more desirous to establish this fact, as Mons. Savigny, de l'lnstitut d'Egypte, in his learned paper in the Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, has considered it to be a Lotus of the ancients; and in all modern works which have fallen in my way, I have observed a repetition of the same error.
XXXVIII. On the large Silver Coins of Syracuse: by Richard Payne Knight, Esq. V.P.
Authors: Knight Richard Payne
Published: July 2016

Among the wrecks and fragments of ancient art and magnificence, which have resisted the waste of time, or escaped the more destructive ravages of barbarism and bigotry, none are so universally allowed to approach so near to abstract perfection, both in design and execution; or so far to surpass all subsequent efforts of imitation, as those large silver coins of Syracuse with a head of Ceres or Proserpine on the one side, and a chariot with four horses abreast, driven by a Victory, on the other, commonly called Syracusian Medaglions.
XII. On the Origin of the Word Romance; by the Rev. Mr. Drake. In a Letter to the Secretary
Authors: Drake
Published: July 2016

The literary world is much indebted to the ingenious Mr. Warton for his valuable history of English poetry. It is indeed an acquisition in that branch of learning so happily instructive as well as amusing, that it must have its admirers, whilst an elegance of taste remains among us. However, with the utmost deference to so superior a genius, I cannot help thinking, that, though that species of writing, called Romance, is the principal object of his book, he is very much mistaken as to the origin of that word. He makes it wholly of French extraction, mentions it as such in various parts of his work, and, in one place particularly, makes it synonymous with the French language.
VI. Dissertation on the Life and Writings of Mary, an Anglo-Norman Poetess of the 13th Century, by Mons. La Rue. Communicated by Francis Douce, Esq. F.A.S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: La Rue
Published: July 2016

I have the honour of communicating to the Society a translation of a letter addressed to me by the Abbé La Rue, upon a very important branch of English literature.

The attention with which it has already honoured the labours of this ingenious and learned writer, will not, I trust, be diminished upon the present occasion.
XII. Copies of Two Manuscripts on the most proper Method of Defence against Invasion, by Mr. Waad. Communicated by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough, F.A.S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Ayscough Samuel
Published: July 2016

In my researches amongst the MSS. in the British Museum I met with the two following, which under the present circumstances I am induced to think will be acceptable communications to our Society, and for that purpose have transcribed them. They are both written by Mr. William Waad, of whom Dr. Birch, in his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, (Vol. I. p. 45,) gives the following account. “Mr.William Waad was son of Armigel Waad, Esq. a gentleman born in Yorkshire, and educated at St. Magdalen College in Oxford, who was clerk of the council to king Henry VIII. and Edward VI. and employed in several campaigns abroad, and died at Belsie or Belsise House, in the parish of Hampstead, near London, on the 20th of June 1568. His son William succeeded him in the place of Clerk of the Council, and was afterwards knighted by king James I. at Greenwich, May 30, 1603, and made Lieutenant of the Tower. The occasion of his journey into Spain in the beginning of the year 1583−4, was upon the discovery of the Spanish ambassador Mendoza being concerned in the plot of Francis Throgmorton, and other English catholics, in favour of the queen of Scots, and being ordered to depart England immediately, of which he loudly complained, as a violation of the law of nations.
XXV. Extracts from the Parish Register of St. Bennet's, St. Paul's Wharf, London. Communicated by the Rev. Mark Noble, F.A.S. In a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Noble Mark
Published: July 2016

You will do me a great favour in laying the underwritten before the Society of Antiquaries; it is the result of what I saw remarkable in the register books of the parish of St. Benedict, usually called St. Bennet's, St. Paul's Wharf, London. The registers do not commence until after the beginning of the seventeenth century.
VII. Translation of a Dissertation on Satyrical Medals, addressed to the Society by Pere Francois Phillippe Gourdin, Benedictine of the Order of St. Maur at Rouen, Librarian of the Abbey of St. Ouen in Normandy, Member of the Academies of Rouen, Caen, and Villefranche, and of the Literary Society of Boulogne and the Museum at Bourdeaux, and Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Authors: Gourdin Francois Phillippe
Published: July 2016

About a century has now elapsed since an important question arose among the most celebrated Antiquaries, concerning a Gold Medal of the Emperor Gallienus in the King of France's Cabinet. It exhibits on one side the head Of the Emperor crowned with ears of corn, with the inscription GALLIENAE AVGVSTAE. The name of a woman over the head of an Emperor conveyed to many persons the idea of a medallic satire. Frederic Spanheim [a], Vaillant [b], Baudelot [c], Banduri [a], and Grainville [e], conceived themselves authorised in adopting this opinion, inasmuch as the Emperor Julian in his Cæsars represents Gallienus coming to the Banquet of the Gods in the habit and with the air of a woman [f]. The legend on the reverse VBIQVE PAX, at a time when war desolated all the provinces of the Empire, tended admirably to confirm the opinion of these learned men.
VIII. Extract of a Letter from Col. Sydenham to Lord Macartney, dated St. Thomas' Mount, near Madrass, Oct. 14, 1786. Communicated by Dr. Lort, V.P.
Authors: Sydenham
Published: July 2016

Your Lordship has probably heard that a number of Roman coins have been lately found in Nellour Country. The story is this. A labourer in ploughing some ground found himself obstructed by something which he perceived to be a square building of brick or stone. Having the curiosity to penetrate further he came to a small pot containing several pieces of gold. By some means it reached the ears of the renter, who reported it to the Durbar, and the money was ordered to be sent to Madrass. To the great astonishment of the Eastern world, they proved to be Roman coins of different Emperors, the impression of many as perfect and fresh as new. Some had holes bored in them, as if designed as an ornament to be worn round the neck, while on others the impression was nearly effaced. There were about 40. The Ameer gave one to each of his particular friends.