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XIV. On some Roman Vestigia recently found at Kirkby Thore, in Westmoreland: in a Letter from Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N., K.S.F., D.C.L., President of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, &c. to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., &c., Secretary
Authors: Smyth W. H.
Published: June 2012

Being recently on a visit to my friend Sir George Musgrave, Bart. F.S.A., of Edenhall, in Cumberland, I found he had become possessed of a number of Roman relics from Kirkby Thore, a parish on the high road between Appleby and Penrith. Some of these are of considerable local interest; and as so few particulars of the early military transactions of the Romans in Cumberland and Westmoreland are known, every additional ray of light becomes valuable to history and chronology. I therefore beg to exhibit a sample of these relics to the Society, by Sir George's kind permission, and to add a word or two in general illustration.
XXVI. On some Anglo-Saxon Remains, discovered at Stowting, in the county of Kent: in a Letter from Charles Roach Smith, Esq., F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Smith Charles Roach
Published: June 2012

I Have much pleasure in bringing before the notice of the Society some ancient remains, very recently discovered at Stowting, in the county of Kent.

If I am not mistaken, they will be admitted to possess considerable interest, by reason of the circumstances under which they were brought to light, having been, without loss of time, noted and authenticated; the objects themselves preserved and delineated; and because they afford evidence to warrant classification and appropriation, and confirm the correct arrangement of similar remains found frequently in the same county, as well as in other parts of England.
XXVIII. Description of an Egyptian Mummy, and of the Hieroglyphics upon its Case, supposed to be of the Period of the Psammetici, opened in 1843; in a Letter from Hugh W. Diamond, Esq., F.S.A. to John Yonge Akerman, Esq., F.S.A.
Authors: Diamond Hugh W.
Published: June 2012

Some time since you will remember that you were looking at the accompanying drawings, taken from the cases of a mummy which I opened in company with Mr. Birch, of the British Museum, in the autumn of 1843, and you suggested that, from the great fidelity with which they were executed, they were deserving of exhibition at some meeting of the Society of Antiquaries. I now send them to you, with some descriptions thereof, which I am enabled to furnish by the kindness of Mr. Birch.
XXXIV. A Description of four Bronzes found at Colchester: from the Collection of Henry Vint, Esq. In a letter from Charles Newton, Esq. to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. Secretary
Authors: Newton Charles
Published: June 2012

The three bronzes engraved, Plates XIII.—XVI. and exhibited by Mr. Vint to the Society of Antiquaries, Nov. 27, 1845, were discovered in the month of October last, on the line of railway now forming between Colchester and Ipswich, about a mile to the east of the Colchester terminus, and half a mile north of the town. They were dug up at the depth of about five feet from the surface; portions of red pottery, bronze, and lead, were found near them, and, at the distance of about six feet, a human skull and some horses' teeth. The spot presented no indications of having been a place of dwelling or of sepulture, but two or three hundred yards nearer the terminus is a small rising ground, in cutting through which the railway labourers are said to have found urns containing bones.
I.—Account of the Sums disbursed under the direction of Sir Edward Cecill, Treasurer appointed for defraying the Expenses of the Lady Elizabeth, daughter of King James the First, and her husband the Elector Palatyne, with their Trayne, as also the Lords Ambassadors, Ladies, and others attending them from England to the Territories of the said Elector Palatyne, a° 1613: in a Letter addressed by Sir Charles George Young, Garter, F.S.A., to Captain William Henry Smyth, R.N., F.R.S., V.P.
Authors: Young Charles George
Published: June 2012

Amongst the various ceremonies and entertainments which distinguished the reign of King James I. there were none perhaps celebrated with greater solemnity or more costly magnificence than those preparatory to and consequent upon the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth with Frederic the Elector Palatine, which took place on the 14th of February, 1612-13. The joyous exultation and feeling exhibited by the people tended in some degree, we are told, to dissipate the grief which was generally felt at the death of Henry, the young Prince of Wales, which happened in the preceding November, and had diffused a gloom over the kingdom.
II.—Some Information regarding the Lucies of Charlcot, the Shakespeares in and near Stratford-upon-Avon, and the property of William Shakespeare in Henley Street: in a Letter from J. Payne Collier, Esq., V.P., to J. Y. Akerman, Esq., Secretary
Authors: Collier J. Payne
Published: June 2012

Malone may be said to have raised the deer-stealing incident in Shakespeare's early life to a degree of importance that it hardly deserved, considering the commonness of the offence about the period when our great dramatist is generally supposed to have left Stratford-upon-Avon for London. Malone's argument, which Gifford thought too long drawn out, was, that as Sir Thomas Lucy had no park, therefore he could have no deer; and consequently that Shakespeare could not have stolen deer which the old knight did not possess. It is evident that this reasoning is inconclusive, because, taking it even for a point established that Sir Thomas Lucy had no park, it is not thereby proved that he had no deer. To shew then that he had deer, or at all events to shew the probability that he had deer, I adduced the fact in my Life of Shakespeare, that when Lord Keeper Egerton entertained Queen Elizabeth shortly before her death, Sir Thomas Lucy made him a present of a buck as a contribution to the feast. Here again the evidence was clearly inconclusive, because Sir Thomas Lucy might have given the buck to Sir Thomas Egerton, without having any deer in his park, or even in his possession. Nevertheless, considering the manners of the time, it was not at all likely that he should have done so; and I believe that of late years it has been generally supposed that Sir Thomas Lucy, if he had not a park, had deer; and that it was possible, therefore, that Shakespeare should have been involved in some poaching affair, and might have quitted his native town for the metropolis to avoid proceedings against him.
X.—Account of Teutonic Remains, apparently Saxon, found near Dieppe. In a Letter from William Michael Wylie, Esq. F.S.A. to John Yonge Akerman, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Wylie William Michael
Published: June 2012

I am aware of the interest taken by many of our Fellows in all that tends to elucidate Teutonic antiquities, and therefore venture to request you will submit to their consideration these notes on an obscure and difficult branch of the subject.

When in France, during the last summer, I endeavoured to profit by so favourable an opportunity for observing the sepulchral remains of the Frankish race, and comparing them with those of the Saxon. It had not occurred to me that there also I might meet with traces of the Saxons, “that celebrated name in which,” as Gibbon well writes, “we have a dear and domestic interest.” From long habit, Saxon antiquities are apt to appear the exclusive attribute of our own land; yet we possess abundant evidence of the presence of the Saxons in Gaul.
XI.—Farewell Address of General Ludlow to the authorities of Vevay. Communicated by H. L. Long, Esq., through J. Y. Akerman, Esq, Secretary
Authors: Long H. L.
Published: June 2012

Among the archives of the municipality at Vevay are a few notices respecting General Ludlow. He was under constant apprehension of assassination, and by way of protection he was allowed, if necessary, to ring a large bell, suspended in an old tower, since pulled down, which stood on the edge of the lake, at the south-east corner of the market-place, and which was his first habitation at Vevay. His last abode was the house adjoining the eastern gate of the town, which is still in perfect preservation, and well known as Ludlow's residence. Until within the last few years the original inscription remained over the door; it was carved on wood in the form of a scroll, and was given by the present possessor of the mansion to an Englishman travelling through Vevay, who represented himself as a descendant of Ludlow. Permission was accorded him by the government at Berne to erect a small guardhouse in front of the house, in the lake, to watch any boat coming from Savoy; one attempt was made upon his person, as he was coming out of the church in which his ashes now repose, but was frustrated by the authorities of the town surrounding and protecting him. The permissions to ring the bell and to build the guard-house are recorded in the archives. There is also some memorandum relating to “Madame la Genérale Ludlow,” after his decease. On the 6th of June, 1832, having obtained the obliging permission of the syndic to search the records, I proceeded to their examination. One of the conseil d'etat, and the secretary, whose name was Demontel, attended me; unfortunately there was no index, and the person belonging to the establishment, said to be the only man capable of laying his hand upon anything required, happened to be absent at Orbe. So I was left to hunt along the margin for the name of Ludlow,—a tedious and somewhat unprofitable task, for I could not find all I wanted. I have a friend here, at Lausanne, who has engaged to furnish me with some particulars respecting the investigations that followed the assassination of Lisle, in the Place St. François. It would be satisfactory to discover some remnant of the papers and correspondence of the regicides, but none are known to exist, and Ludlow's widow no doubt carried off all his literary remains when she left his mortal remains in the church of St. Martin. The epitaph she put up to him is well known: so are those of Broughton and Love. Interment in the church is no longer permitted, so the old Parliamentarians are likely to have it all to themselves, and to lie there undisturbed until the “crack of Doom,” for we can hardly calculate upon churches being pulled down, and the dead pulled up, in this tranquil, neutralised, unchanging country.
XVI.—Papers relating to the Proposed Marriage of Queen Elizabeth with the Brother of the Emperor, in 1567. Communicated by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., in a Letter to J. Y. Akerman, Esq., Secretary
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

I beg to lay before our Society transcripts of three Documents illustrative of the Earl of Sussex's negotiation, in 1567, for the marriage of Queen Elizabeth with the Archduke Charles.

The first is the Diary of the Journey, kept by Sir Gilbert Dethick, who, as Garter King of Arms, attended the cortege, to invest the Emperor with the Order of St. George. It is mutilated in a few passages, being one of the numerous fragments of the Cottonian Library, which, with many fine and important volumes, were destroyed, or spoiled for all useful purposes, in the well-known fire of 1731.

The second is a Letter from the Earl of Sussex to the Queen herself (preserved in the Cottonian MS. Galba, B. xi . fol. 300), dated 27th August, 1567, detailing the substance of his several audiences of the Emperor up to the Emperor's acceptance of the Order of the Garter. It begins rather abruptly. It was probably preceded by some previous Letter to the Queen, descriptive of the journey: and not improbably by another Letter, or perhaps Letters, stating the further discussions with the Emperor and the Archduke, and the causes of failure of the Negociation.

The whole affording an ample view of the Negociation, and of the fruitless expenditure which it entailed.
III. An Account of the opening and examination of a considerable number of Tumuli on Breach Downs, in the County of Kent, in a Letter from Lord Albert Conyngham, F.S.A., to John Yonge Akerman, Esq. F.S.A.; followed by Mr. Akerman's Remarks upon Lord Albert Conyngham's Excavations
Authors: Conyngham Albert , Akerman John Yonge
Published: June 2012

I have had drawings made of the principal objects found in opening tumuli on Breach Downs, in this county, during the months of September and October, of the present year. Should you consider them of sufficient interest to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries, you have my entire permission to do so.
VI. Observations upon certain Proceedings in the Star-chamber against Lord Vaux, Sir Thomas Tresham, Sir William Catesby, and others, for refusing to swear that they had not harboured Campion the Jesuit: in a Letter from John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary; followed by a narrative of the Proceedings
Authors: Bruce John
Published: June 2012

I send you a transcript of a paper which I am surprised not to find published in any of the printed collections of State Trials. It possesses sufficient importance, both historical and legal, to have entitled it to a place in those collections; but, as it has not been noticed by their editors, nor, as far as I know, been printed elsewhere, it may be thought worthy of a place in the Archseologia. It has reference to some very important transactions in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and relates to persons and families who were themselves of considerable name, and the immediate descendants of some of whom were connected with subsequent events of still greater interest; it is, moreover, one of the most minute accounts we possess of a proceeding ore tenus in the star-chamber, and records the opinions of the highest legal officers of that day upon some important questions in constitutional law. In the expectation that these circumstances will be thought sufficient to entitle this paper to a place in the transactions of the Society of Antiquaries, I shall preface it with some observations upon the persons and events with which it is connected.
VIII. Two Letters from George Godwin, Esq. F.R.S. & F.S.A. to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary, on certain Marks discoverable on the Stones of various Buildings erected in the Middle Ages
Authors: Godwin George
Published: June 2012

About three years ago my attention was first drawn to the fact, that the Stones both inside and outside numerous ancient buildings in England bore in many cases a peculiar mark or symbol, which was evidently the work of the original builders. It immediately occurred to me, that these Marks, if extensively examined and compared, might serve to aid in connecting, and perhaps discriminating, the various bands of operatives, who, under the protection of the Church, mystically united, spread themselves over Europe during the middle ages, and are known as the Free Masons.
XII. Description of some Gold Ornaments recently found in Ireland, in a Letter from Lord Albert Conyngham, F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Conyngham Albert
Published: June 2012

The golden ornaments which you will receive to-morrow evening to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries, should you consider them sufficiently interesting, I have numbered 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6. (Plate XII.)

The first five were accidentally found by a labouring man about a fortnight since, within a few yards of the entrance to the caves at New Grange. They were at the depth of two feet from the surface of the ground, and without any covering or protection from the earth about them. Another labouring man, hearing of this discovery, carefully searched the spot whence they were taken, and found a denarius of Geta, and two other coins of small brass, but quite defaced ; they are all in my possession.
XIX. On the Political Condition of the English Peasantry during the Middle Ages. By Thomas Wright, Esq. M.A., F.S.A., &c. Corresponding Member of the Institute of France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres). In a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Sec. S.A., &c.
Authors: Wright Thomas
Published: June 2012

A few loose remarks on the political condition of the agricultural population of our island under the Saxon rule, as well as under the sterner oppression of the Norman feudal aristocracy, will, perhaps, not be uninteresting to the Members of our Society. It is a subject which in general has been but superficially treated; the humble cottager, forgotten amid the great events which have appropriated to themselves the page of history, seems to have little claim upon our attention. Yet there were few social movements in which he did not share, at least as a sufferer; and there were many, which, without a knowledge of his true social position, are now but partially understood. It is not generally known that the rural population of England is not only the representative of a class of slaves, but that it is originally by blood of a different race from the pure Anglo-Saxon stock.
XX. On the Eastern Terminus of the Wall of Antoninus. By the Rev. Richard Garnett, Assistant Librarian of the British Museum. Communicated by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Garnett Richard
Published: June 2012

In a well-known passage of his “Ecclesiastical History,” Bede observes that the eastern extremity of the wall of Antoninus was called by the Picts Peannfahel, and by the Anglo-Saxons Peneltun. The latter would lead us to expect a modern Pendleton; but no such name is known in the district. There is some disagreement among antiquaries as to the precise point where the vallum actually terminated. The common opinion places it at Caerriden or Carriden, adjoining the æstuary of the Forth in Linlithgowshire, chiefly on the ground of the vestiges found there of a Roman fort or station. Though Horsley does not formally controvert this opinion, it is evident that he thought there were serious objections against it, which it will be best to state in his own words:—
XXIV. An Account of the opening of some Barrows in South Dorsetshire. In a Letter from John Sydenham, Esq., of Greenwich, to John Yonge Akerman, Esq., F.S.A.
Authors: Sydenham John
Published: June 2012

In compliance with your request I proceed to furnish a few memoranda of circumstances attending the opening of some barrows in the south of Dorsetshire, indicating the differences that prevail between the barrows of that part of the country and those that have been opened so numerously in the county of Kent. Those differences are so many and so distinct that it will at once be manifest that the two classes have little in common, save the principle of tumular interment; and that they are respectively the construction of a different people, and have been erected at distant eras. To this difference, however, there is one—and so far as I have been enabled to ascertain, but one—exception, in the remarkable barrow recently investigated at Iffin's Wood near Canterbury, and described by you in the first portion of the thirtieth volume of the Archæologia. The contents of this barrow are of a character precisely similar to those I am now about to describe. The construction of the barrow, the material and form of the urns, their inverted position, the irregularity of their depositure, are all in strict accordance with the peculiar features of the Dorsetshire barrows.
XXXIV. Letter from Albert Way, Esq. Director S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary, accompanying the Copy of an Indenture of Lease from the Earl of Bedford to Sir William Cecil, of a portion of Pasture in Covent Garden
Authors: Way Albert
Published: June 2012

Mr. Richard Almack, F.S.A., of Long Melford, Suffolk, a gentleman who possesses a store of original correspondence, and documentary materials for English history, both of a public and personal nature, has placed in my hands the counterpart of a lease from the Earl of Bedford to Sir William Cecil, afterwards the Lord Treasurer Burghley, and bearing the signature of that great statesman, to be submitted to the inspection of the Society of Antiquaries.
XXXVI. Description of the Refectory of the Priory of Great Malvern. In a Letter from Edward Blore, Esq., D.C.L., F.S.A., to Albert Way, Esq., Director
Authors: Blore Edward
Published: June 2012

I have great pleasure in complying with your wish to have copies of my sketches of the Refectory of the Priory at Great Malvern for publication in the Archaeologia of the Society of Antiquaries. (Plates XX. XXI.) It may add something to the interest of the subject, and at the present moment may furnish an useful illustration of the danger to which the valuable remains of the olden times are exposed for want of proper and effectual protection, were I to describe the circumstances under which I found this interesting specimen of the domestic architecture of the 14th century, and its subsequent fate. The story is told in few words. In the year 1837, I discovered it in the state represented in the sketches; two years subsequently it had ceased to exist. Owing, I believe, to the exterior having been very much disguised by recent repairs, it had remained unnoticed until the period above named, when curiosity led me to Malvern, to examine the beautiful Priory Church at that place. After gratifying this feeling, I devoted the little time I had to spare to an examination of the surrounding buildings, when my attention was attracted by a large barn, at a short distance to the south, in which I fancied I could discern some indications of old work in traceried windows. Having obtained an entrance to the interior, I found it nearly filled with the produce of the farm to which it was attached; but the extraordinary and beautiful roof stood clear and free above the accumulated produce with which the lower part was incumbered. Not anticipating such a discovery, the little time I had to spare only allowed me to make one hurried sketch of the exterior and one of the interior, with a few memoranda of mouldings; delighted with the opportunity of securing so much, and hoping at some future time to revisit the place for the purpose of making more careful notes of its proportions, construction, and peculiarity of form and ornament. Before, however, this opportunity occurred, the utilitarian spirit of its possessor had occasioned its entire demolition; and I regret very much to add, that, notwithstanding I had mentioned my discovery to several antiquaries who take an interest in the ancient domestic architecture of the country, I believe it was seen by few and drawn by none. My own sketches may, therefore, as far as I am aware, be considered as the only records of a specimen of domestic work which belongs to an early period, is interesting as connected with an important monastic establishment, and more so for the peculiarities of its decorations, which, as far as I know, are unique in their application to such a purpose.
VII. Account of some Architectural and Sculptural Remains at Pæstum; with Observations on the reference the latter may bear to the Mythological History of that City: in a Letter from William Hosking, Esq. F.S.A. to Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S., Treasurer
Authors: Hosking William
Published: June 2012

The accompanying Drawings are traced from sketches I made at Pæstum in the year 1824, when in pursuit of professional knowledge there; they appear to me to possess a considerable degree of interest both architecturally and archæologically, and having lately heard a Paper read at one of the sittings of the Society of Antiquaries, when I was present as a visiter, on a somewhat similar subject, I am induced to submit them to their consideration, with a few remarks in explanation, and a few hints in the hope of elucidating them.
IX. Account of an ancient Bath, in the Island of Lipari: in a Letter from Captain W.H. Smyth, R.N., F.R.S., F.S.A., to Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S., Treasurer S.A. with a Model
Authors: Smyth W. H.
Published: June 2012

Having recently heard that the luxuriant hand of nature is already verifying my fears, as to the very site of a highly interesting Bath, in the island of Lipari, becoming disputable, I feel it a duty to forward, for the Society of Antiquaries, the Model of this edifice, which I referred to in my description of that Country.
X. On the Viola of the Ancients; by the Lord Viscount Mahon
Authors: Mahon
Published: June 2012

I Shall attempt in this Paper to prove that the plant called Viola by the Romans, is not, according to the received opinion, our common Violet, but the flower called Iris, and well-known in our English gardens. This idea first occurred to me, when in the winter of 1825-1826 I travelled on horseback over the greater part of Sicily, and observed, that amongst the numerous wild flowers which that genial climate was already bringing forth at that season, there was no Violet to be seen, but, on the other hand, a great abundance of Iris; and I have since been informed that such is likewise the case in southern Italy. This seemed to me to render it improbable, that a plant so common should have been unnoticed by the ancient pastoral poets, and that their strains should be devoted to one apparently of foreign origin, of later introduction, and of less general growth.
XIII. Copy of a Manuscript Tract, entitled “A Brief Discovery of the great Purpresture of New Buildings nere to the Cittie,” written in the time of King James the First. Communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary, in a Letter to Hudson Gurney, Esq. V.P.
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

The jealousy with which the increase of London was viewed by the Government, in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James the First, is a matter of sufficient notoriety. The Proclamations upon this subject from both Sovereigns must be in your recollection. The general interests of trade, the particular encouragement of apprenticeships, the dread of mischievous people congregating, the fears of lire, plague, and famine, and of the increasing price of provisions, all contributed to a narrow line of policy: so that the construction of buildings upon new sites was in a great measure forbidden unless licensed, as well as rebuildings upon old sites, except under restrictions which tended to beautify the metropolis, and to lessen danger as to fire. Nor was this jealousy confined strictly to the City. In the Proclamations of the 44th of Elizabeth, and of the 1st, 2d, and 5th years of James, we find the inmates of the Suburbs included.
XVII. Account of a fresco Painting discovered at Preston, Sussex; by the Rev. Charles Townshend, in a Letter to Henry Hallam, Esq. F.R.S., V.P.
Authors: Townshend Charles
Published: June 2012

The Church of Preston, near Brighton, appears from various indications to have been built towards the end of the reign of Henry III. On the east wall of the nave, on both sides of the arch opening to the Chancel, the Commandments had been painted, which, becoming greatly decayed from damp and age, I endeavoured to scrape away; after removing many thick coats of whitewash and plaster, I gradually made out on the wall, northward of the arch, the painting of the murder of Becket, &c. (No. 1), and on that southward of the arch the various paintings (No. 2).
XXI. Account of King Henry the Eighth's Entry into Lincoln, in 1541: Communicated in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary, from Frederic Madden, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

There are but few probably of the members of this Society so slightly versed in the history of their country as not to recollect the great Lincolnshire rebellion in 1536, when a body of men, amounting, according to historians, to 20,000 men, headed by Dr. Makerel, the Abbot of Barlings, under the assumed name of Captain Cobler, had the hardihood to assemble and remonstrate to Henry the Eighth, against the suppression of the religious houses, the exaction of subsidies, the grant of first-fruits, and other arbitrary proceedings of the King, his Council, and Parliament. The first cause of this serious disturbance is alleged to have been the publication of a book, entitled “Articles devised by the King's highness,” &c. in which only three sacraments were allowed; and the dissatisfaction given to the clergy by this step, was not long after augmented by the injunctions issued by Cromwell, in Sept. 1536, that the Pater-noster, Ave, Creed, and Commandments, should be read in English, which, as Holinshed writes, “bred a great misliking in the harts of the common people, which had beene euer brought vp and trained in contrarie doctrine.” The issue of this affair is well known:—the reply or Henry to the rebels, in which they are called in no courtly terms, “the rude commons of one shire, and that one of the moste brute and beastly of the whole realme;” and their final submission to the Duke of Suffolk.
XXIII. Narrative of the Visit of the Duke de Nájera to England, in the year 1543-4; written by his Secretary, Pedro de Gante: Communicated in a Letter to Hudson Gurney, Esq. M.P., Vice President S.A. by Frederic Madden, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

I Venture to offer to the notice of the Society, through your hands, an account of the visit made by Don Manriquez de Lara, Duke of Najera, to England, in the year 1543-4. All contemporary narratives of this nature are interesting, more especially when written, as in the present instance, for private information only; and in this respect the relation in question possesses perhaps a superior claim to those of Paulo Jovio, Micheli, Perlin, and Hentzner, already before the public. It is extracted from a folio MS. volume, recently acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum, which is stated to have been procured from the library of Thomas Iriarte, the well known Spanish poet, and Archiviste of the Council of State. This volume consists of copies of a variety of valuable documents in the form of correspondence, narratives, and diplomatic instruments, from the year 1520 to the commencement of the sixteenth century, chiefly illustrative of the history of Spain during that period, but embracing also the transactions in Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Africa.
III. Letter from Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. President, accompanying Transcripts of three Letters illustrative of English History
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

By the kindness of the Lord Bishop of Landaff, I place upon the Society's table three original Letters preserved among the family archives of Sir William Pole, Bart. of Shute, in the county of Devon. They are illustrative of English History; and are all addressed to Sir William Morice, Secretary of State to King Charles the Second.
IV. Remarks upon the Coins lately discovered in the bed of the River Dove, near Tutbury, Staffordshire. By Edward Hawkins, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A. Keeper of the Antiquities and Medals in the British Museum
Authors: Hawkins Edward
Published: June 2012

As much interest has been excited by the discovery of a very large number of Silver Pennies, of the time of our first and second Edwards, in the neighbourhood of Tutbury, in Staffordshire, I shall take the liberty of laying before the Society such of the circumstances as have come to my knowledge; with a few observations which have arisen from an accurate examination of nearly 1500 of these coins, which have been submitted to my inspection by the kindness of Lord Holland, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
V. Observations on the various Fashions of Hats, Bonnets, or Coverings for the head, chiefly from the reign of King Henry VIII.thto the eighteenth Century; by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter addressed to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Repton John Adey
Published: June 2012

If you consider there is any thing curious or amusing in the enclosed Drawings and Observations on Hats, you will oblige me by laying them before the Society of Antiquaries on some evening when their attention may not be directed to any more valuable Communication.
VIII. An Account of two ancient Drawings preserved in the British Museum: One, representing the Attack of the French upon the Town of Brighthelmstone in 1545: the Other, the Battle of St. Etienne, otherwise called the Battle of Arques, fought near Dieppe, in 1589. In a Letter from Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T., President
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

I have the pleasure to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries Copies of two ancient Drawings in the British Museum. One is a Tracing, which has been obligingly made for me by Mr. J. T. Smith, from a representation of the Town of Brighthelmstone, taken in the month of July 1545, when that place was attacked by the French. The other is a Bird's-eye View of the country in the neighbourhood of Dieppe in Normandy, evidently drawn upon the spot, and exhibiting the positions of the armies of the King of Navarre and the Duke de Maienne at the battle of St. Etienne, September 21st, 1589.
XI. Account of Cædmon's Metrical Paraphrase of Scripture History, an illuminated Manuscript of the Tenth Century, preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary, in a Letter to the Right Hon. George Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., President
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: June 2012

Your lordship and the Council of the Society of Antiquaries having determined that, to render the publication-price of Caedmon's Paraphrase more moderate, the Illuminations of the Manuscript should appear in the Archasologia, the following Brief Notice of the Work has been drawn up to accompany the Plates, closing with a Descriptive Catalogue of them by Mr. Thorpe, occasionally containing such passages of the Poem as the Illuminations are intended more strictly to refer to.
II. Further Observations on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of France and England: in a Letter from Thomas Rickman, Esq. to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director
Authors: Rickman Thomas
Published: June 2012

I now resume my consideration of the Architecture of England and part of France, and I intend in the present Paper to notice such Buildings in both Countries as are either known to be of a date prior to the year 1000, or in their clear difference from anything of later date, may, from that clear difference, and their relation to works known to be before the year 1000,— be well permitted to be considered of an earlier date, until proved to be of a later one.
IV. On the Foundation Stone of the original Church of St. Mark at Venice; with some Remarks on the Ceremony of laying Foundation Stones in Ecclesiastical Edifices: By Francis Douce, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Douce Francis
Published: June 2012

I beg leave to solicit the attention of the Society to a very singular, and I believe unique article of its kind. It is the foundation Stone of the original Church of Saint Mark at Venice.
XVIII. Warrant of King James the First to the Great Wardrobe for apparel, &c. for the Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth; communicated by Sir Frederic Madden, K.H. F.R.S. and S.A. in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. F.R.S. Secretary.
Authors: Madden Frederic
Published: June 2012

In the account of the marriage of Prince Frederic, Elector Palatine, to the Princess Elizabeth, which was solemnised on Shrove Sunday, 14th February 1612–13, inserted by Mr. Nichols in his “Progresses of King James the First,” vol. ii. I find several items of the expenses incurred on that occasion, and among them the two following: “To the Lord Hay, to provide apparell and other necessaries for the Lady Elizabeth, 6252l.”—“More to the Lord Hay, for more necessaries for the Lady Elizabeth, and for furnishing her marriage chamber, 3023l.” p. 622.
XXIV. Particulars respecting Sir Francis Bryan, one of the Authors of “Songs and Sonnets,” printed in 1557; Communicated by J. Payne Collier, Esq. in a Letter to Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S., Treasurer
Authors: Collier J. Payne
Published: June 2012

As information regarding any of our elder Poets is not without the sphere of inquiry by the Society of Antiquaries, I do not scruple to forward to you, for the inspection of that learned body, a few novel particulars respecting Sir Francis Bryan, one of the authors of the celebrated volume of “Songs and Sonnets,” first printed by Tottell in 1557, which went through several subsequent editions. Sir Francis Bryan, as you are well aware, was not less distinguished as a soldier and a politician than as a poet; but the intelligence we have hitherto procured relating to him has been, perhaps, more scanty than that which refers to any of his accomplished contemporaries. This fact must be my excuse for giving to what I now furnish an air of greater importance than it may really deserve. I feel so curious an interest in all matters, however trifling, connected with literary antiquities, that I am not a competent judge of the worth or worthlessness of a letter like the present. I therefore throw upon you the responsibility of deciding whether it ought to be read before the Society.
II. Observations on the Coins found by Colonel Caldwell in the Tumuli described in the preceding Letter from Sir Anthony Carlisle, Knt. By Richard Payne Knight, Esq. V.P.
Authors: Knight Richard Payne
Published: June 2012

The three irregularly square pieces of silver which accompany this Letter, weighing from forty-three to thirty-five grains each, in a dimension of about a quarter of a square inch, are not properly Coins, having no impressions in relief stricken from dies, but merely incuse marks, irregularly imprinted by small and very neat stamps worked by hand: nor do these marks appear to imitate or represent any thing, but to be mere arbitrary signs; though their being found with the relicks of the dead, in sepulchral urns, proves them to have have had some sacred or symbolical meaning. The pieces themselves appear, from the irregular bulging in the edges, to have been beaten flat and stamped, after being divided into monetary portions; and they are worn and polished in a manner which proves them to have been long in use as a circulating medium. Both the circumstances of their discovery, and the simplicity of their fashion are such, that we may, perhaps, safely pronounce them to be the most ancient and primitive specimens of money extant; though it is in vain to offer any conjectures concerning their date, or to seek for any accounts of the nation by which they were fabricated and employed, all the native histories and traditions of India terminating in allegorical fable at a much later period.
V. Observations on a Gold Ring with a Runic Inscription, in the possession of the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, Pres. S.A. In a Letter to his Lordship, from William Hamper, Esq. F.S.A.
Authors: Hamper William
Published: June 2012

The Runic Inscription on your Lordship's very curious Gold Ring, which I have copied at the head of my letter, is composed with a mysterious abruptness, and arranged with a studied obscurity, well befitting its high thaumaturgical pretensions, as an amulet against fever and leprosy.
IX. Poem, entitled the “Siege of Rouen:” written in the Reign of Henry the Fifth. Communicated in a Letter from the Rev. J. J. Conybeare, late Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Conybeare J. J.
Published: June 2012

The Poem, of which I inclose a faithful Transcript and a hasty abstract, is contained in No. 124 of the Bodley MSS. at Oxford. It is fairly written upon parchment, in a hand apparently very few years later than the date of the event which it commemorates. Some leaves have unfortunately been torn away at the conclusion.
X. Observations on the First Common Seal used by the Burgesses of Bristol. By the Rev. James Dallaway, F.S.A. In a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Dallaway James
Published: June 2012

I observe, that several communications respecting municipal Seals have been formerly made to the Society, and am consequently induced to address you upon the subject of one, which presents a fair claim to their notice.

The first municipal Seal now extant, which was used by the commonalty of the burgh of Bristol, is no less curious for the excellence of the engraving, as a work of art at the time of its execution, than the historical design, concerning which, I request to submit some Observations which have occurred upon a careful examination of it.
XI. On the Voyage, and Place of Shipwreck, of Saint Paul, A. D. 62. By Major Rennell, F.R.S. &c.
Authors: Rennell
Published: June 2012

The Question concerning the place of Shipwreck of St. Paul (Acts, ch. xxvii.), and which had been, with great appearance of truth, referred, from the earliest times, to the Island of Malta, might be thought too trite for discussion, had it not been disputed by some learned persons in latter times; on a supposition that the term Adria, as applied by St. Paul to the Sea in which the shipwreck took place, could only refer to the Adriatic Gulf, or that of Venice. It may therefore be proper to show, that this is an error of the modern Critics; since there can be no doubt that the term Adria was really applied more extensively; and that it included, besides the Gulf of Venice, a considerable portion of the Mediterranean Sea, lying in the direct course of St. Paul's voyage to Rome.
XII. Observations on, with a Copy of, the Proceedings had in the Parliament of the Middle Temple, respecting a Petition of Sir John Davies to be restored to the Degree of Barrister, A.D. 1601: In a Letter from the Right Honourable Lord Stowell, F.S.A. to the Earl of Aberdeen, President
Authors: Stowell
Published: June 2012

I have the honour of sending your Lordship a Copy of Proceedings had in the Parliament of the Middle Temple, (for so a formal Meeting of the Benchers of that House for its business, is denominated,) respecting a Petition of Sir John Davies, praying that he might be restored to his degree of Barrister, and the enjoyment of his seat and commons in that capacity, all which he had forfeited under a judgment of theirs of nearly four years standing, on account of a gross outrage committed in their Hall at the time of public dinner.
XXI. Two Letters; one from Pope Pius the Fourth to Mary Queen of Scots to assist by her Prelates at the Council of Trent; the other from Sir Benjamin Tichborne to King James the First, concerning the staying of the Execution of the Lords Cobham and Gray, and Sir Griffin Markham: Communicated by Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S. Treasurer; in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Amyot Thomas
Published: June 2012

Through the favour of Mr. Bennett, of Norwich, who lately permitted me to exhibit a curious Instrument under the Seal of Mary Queen of Scots, I now inclose to you two other historical Documents, which you will be good enough to lay before the Society, if you should consider them to be of sufficient interest.
XXIV. Letter from Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S. Treasurer, to the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. President, accompanying a transcript of two Rolls, containing an Inventory of Effects formerly belonging to Sir John Fastolfe
Authors: Amyot Thomas
Published: June 2012

By the kindness of the present, possessor, Andrew Fountaine, Esq. of Narford, I am enabled to lay before the Society of Antiquaries a domestick Record, which will probably be considered as having a legitimate claim to their attention. It is an Inventory of the Effects of Sir John Fastolfe, who stands enrolled among the heroes of Agincourt, and obtained still further renown as a brave and successful commander in the French wars of Henry the Sixth. His name, however, is now perhaps better remembered by its near resemblance to the fictitious one which Shakspeare bestowed on the wittiest and most delightful character of the comic Stage. This resemblance indeed, which, whether accidental or otherwise, has given rise to much fruitless controversy, begins and ends with the name, for the gravity of Sir John Fastolfe appears to have been as remarkable as his courage, prudence, piety, and hospitality.
XXIX. Two Letters, the one from Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, in 1642, and the other from Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, in 1655, to John Lord Finch of Fordwich: Communicated by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Nicolas Nicholas Harris
Published: June 2012

Herewith I have the honour to send you Copies of two Letters of considerable interest; and as they have never, I believe, been before noticed, I presume that they will form an acceptable communication to the Society of Antiquaries.
XXX. A Narrative of the Progress of King Edward the First in his Invasion of Scotland in the year 1296: Communicated, with some Observations thereon, by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Nicolas Nicholas Harris
Published: June 2012

From the imperfect and often contradictory accounts given by Chroniclers of events which occurred in early periods of English History, our knowledge of even the most important of them is confined and unsatisfactory. Nor do the invaluable records preserved in the Fædera always reconcile discrepancies, or present a connected narrative of transactions, however much they corroborate or establish particular facts.
XXXII. Account of a Monumental Effigy discovered in Stevenage Church in Hertfordshire: By Mr. Robert T. Stothard, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. President
Authors: Stothard Robert T.
Published: June 2012

The accompanying Drawing (Pl. XXII.), which I beg leave to exhibit to your Lordship and the Society, was made in the autumn of 1824, from an Effigy then lately discovered in the church of Stevenage in the county of Hertford.
II. Observations on certain ancient Pillars of Memorial, called Hoar-Stones. By the late William Hamper, Esq. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Honorary Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, &c.
Authors: Hamper William
Published: June 2012

It will probably be in the recollection of many of the Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries that our late worthy Member William Hamper, Esq of Birmingham, in the year 1820, published a Tract, entitled, “Observations on certain Ancient Pillars of Memorial, called Hoar-stones.” These pillars, or massive blocks of stone, scattered through England, with a few instances in Wales and Scotland, having received no satisfactory elucidation, Mr. Hamper, in his Treatise, gave: 1st. The notions of different writers concerning them; 2nd. An exposition of their name, in which he shewed the intention of our ancestors in erecting them; and, 3rd. A list of places where they occur, or which it was believed had been denominated from them.
IX. Charters relative to the Priory of Trulegh in Kent; Communicated by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., F.S.A., in a Letter to John Gage, Esq., F.R.S., Director
Authors: Phillipps Thomas
Published: June 2012

During my last excursion to France I had the good fortune to preserve some original charters relative to the Priory of Trulegh in Kent, which was a Cell to the Abbey of St. Bertin at St. Omer, in France, of which Priory very little has been discovered either by Dugdale, Tanner, or the Editors of the New Monasticon.
X. Survey of the Manor and Forest of Clarendon, Wiltshire, in 1272; Communicated by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. F.R.S., F.S.A., in a Letter addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary
Authors: Phillipps Thomas
Published: June 2012

I send you a Survey of the Royal Manor of Clarendon in Wiltshire, made in the first year of King Edward the First. When I resided at Salisbury in 1821, I obtained leave to dig on the site of Clarendon Palace in order to discover the plan of it. In the course of searching for the traces of the foundations, I found some painted glass, Norman tiles, and fragments of painted stucco; but I should doubt their being part of any thing described here, for it is most probable that the walls had been often fresh painted and the windows new glazed since the time of Henry the Third or Edward the First. The painted glass, however, was very thick, which is a mark I believe of great antiquity.