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XXVI. On Mortuary Urns found at Stade-on-the-Elbe, and other parts of North Germany, now in the Museum of the Historical Society of Hanover
Authors: Kemble John Mitchell
Published: January 2012

Among the many interesting remains of heathendom, which, to the great benefit of comparative Archaeology, you have recorded in your work on Saxon Pagandom, none have struck me more than certain vessels and utensils found at Eye in Suffolk, and described by you in Part xi. plate xxii. compared with Part ii. plate iv. As works of art they have not indeed much to recommend them; nor are they valuable for the sake of the material of which they are formed. And yet they are more than commonly remarkable. They are so, not only on account of their comparative rarity in this country, which renders them attractive merely as curiosities; but of their intimate connection with objects identical in form, which have been discovered in various parts of North Germany. You are, no doubt, aware that thousands of urns have been exhumed in that part of the continent within the last two hundred years; but, of them all, none approach more nearly in form to the English than those excavated last year at Stade-on-the-Elbe. A comparison of them with those which you have engraved, and those which we find in the “Saxon Obsequies,” and other English works of archaeological interest, will, I trust, not be without value for you. It will serve to shew how complete, even in this matter of detail, was the resemblance between the Saxons in England, and those who remained behind in their old seats upon the Elbe.
XXXII. On some remarkable Sepulchral objects from Italy, Styria, and Mecklenburgh
Authors: Kemble John Mitchell
Published: January 2012

I am anxious to direct attention to certain very remarkable figures and combinations of figures, the most of which have been found in interments, in various parts of Europe, in the hope that notice of them may induce some member of the Society of Antiquaries to pursue their history further than I can do. It lies somewhat beyond the strict limits which I am compelled to put to my studies, and deserves a more exclusive treatment than I have time to bestow upon it: but it seems a subject likely to repay a careful investigation.
IV.—On the Series of Wall Paintings in the Church of St. Mary, Guildford
Authors: Waller John Green
Published: January 2012

The Series of Paintings on the vault of the apse to the north aisle of St. Mary's Church, Guildford, unlike so many which have exercised our attention for a long time past, are of no new discovery, but were disclosed as far back as 1825. In 1838, they were described, and a solution proposed by my old friends, Edward John Carlos and John Gough Nichols, in theArchaeologia, vol. XXVII. p. 413. There are no two names which recall to me more reverent associations than those of the friends I have mentioned. Mr. Carlos was my master in archaeology, and Mr. Nichols's services are well known to this Society. But at the time they wrote little or nothing was known of the popular religious art of the Middle Ages. Didron had but begun his researches, and Maury had not written at all; whilst, in this country, whitewash still covered most of the walls of our churches. Therefore it is not a matter of surprise that their attempted solution is inaccurate, nor have those who have followed them been more fortunate. Guesses have been vaguely made, always an unsure process, for there is nothing more likely to deceive than attempts to find out the meaning of a subject without any principle to go upon: it is like a voyage upon an unknown sea, without rudder or compass. In fact, the subjects I am about to explain, are exceedingly obscure until the clue is obtained; and, at one time, I feared I must have confessed my ignorance, though not admitting the accuracy of the solution given by my friends. They are unique to my experience, and especially curious in the manner in which they are associated together.
VI.—On the words “O Sapientia” in the Kalendar
Authors: Green Everard
Published: January 2012

In theBook of Common Prayer, in the Kalendar, on December the sixteenth, the words

O Sapientia

occur, which words some have fondly imagined to be the names of a Virgin and Martyr, whom they tried, “with much ingenuity and more ignorance,” to prove one of the companions of S. Ursula; (1) and others have confounded the

O Sapientia

with the mediaevaldevotionof the XV. O's, (2) which in no shape or form was, at any time, part of a liturgical service, but merely fifteen private prayers each beginning with the letter 0, as may be seen in Mr. Maskell'sMonumenta Ritualia. (3) These XV. O's, however, are of some interest, as they were printed by Caxton in English, and are to be found in most of ourPrymers. (3)
I. Some details of a Murrain of the Fourteenth Century ; from the Court Rolls of a Norfolk Manor
Authors: Harrod Henry
Published: January 2012

Of the great Murrains of the Middle Ages, we know little or nothing; the statements of the chroniclers about them are so meagre and vague, that we get but few facts except the dates of the years in which they occurred, and even in that particular the Chronicles are not always correct. Under such circumstances, I felt it my duty, when some original information relative to a Murrain in the Fourteenth Century came under my notice, to take some little trouble in selecting, and arranging the materials in order to place them before the Society. The additional knowledge of these visitations, thus obtained, may not be considerable, but a number of small facts may be of some service, in elucidating the character and effect of them.
II.—The Authenticity of the Paston Letters
Authors: Bruce John
Published: January 2012

The doubts which have lately been thrown upon the authenticity of the Paston Letters form a peculiarly appropriate subject for the consideration of the Society of Antiquaries, not merely because historical and antiquarian literature would suffer a grievous loss if the reasonableness of those doubts could be established, but more especially because in the process of their establishment some blame must necessarily fall upon this Society, for having at the time of the original publication allowed itself almost to put the seal of the Society to the genuineness of these important papers.
X.—On the discovery of Sepulchral Remains at Veii and Præneste
Authors: Garrucci Raffaele
Published: January 2012

Last winter, while at Rome, some sketches in the album of Padre Garrucci, of the Collegio Romano, made me acquainted with the discovery of certain archaic tombs at Palestrina, the ancient Præneste, which appeared to me to be of a very remarkable class.
XI.—On the Legal Procedure of the Anglo-Saxons
Authors: Coote Henry Charles
Published: January 2012

The Anglo-Saxon legal procedure has failed to attract the attention either of the antiquary or the lawyer. The causes of this neglect, however, do not readily suggest themselves. As a practice it must have had merit, for amongst other germs which fructified under the fosterage of the Norman we find in it that of the English jury in a state of inception prompt for further development. With such bearings upon the future, this legal procedure may, I think, be reasonably regarded as a subject worthy of antiquarian research.
XX.—On some Discoveries of Stone Implements in Lough Neagh, Ireland
Authors: Evans John
Published: January 2012

It may be agreeable to this society to receive some account of one of the most extensive, if not the most interesting, discoveries of stone implements which has of late years taken place within the United Kingdom. Indeed, so far as the number of objects found is concerned, the discoveries on the shores of Lough Neagh may almost be ranked with those of the prolific caves of the Dordogne, or those of the Pfahlbauten of the Swiss Lakes.
XXII.—On the Castra of the Littus Saxonicum, and particularly the Castrum of Othona
Authors: Lewin Thomas
Published: January 2012

The castra of the Littus Saxonicum were nine in number, and are thus catalogued in the Notitia, the military survey made of the Roman empire in the last stage of its existence:

1. Branodunum or Brancaster.

2. Garianonum or Burgh Castle.

3. Regulbium or Reculver.

4. Rutupiæ or Richborough.

5. Dubræ or Dover.

6. Lemanse or Lymne.

7. Anderida or Pevensey.

8. Portus Adurni or Bramber Castle.

9. Othona.

In discussing the subject of the castra I propose to follow the course which my own mind took during the investigation.
XIX.—On discoveries of Remains of the Roman Wall of London, by William Tite, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., F.S.A.: in a letter to Frederic Ouvry, Esq., Treasurer
Authors: Tite William
Published: January 2012

In April of the year 1854 I had the honour of addressing to you a letter on the subject of a tessellated pavement of considerable beauty which was discovered in Bishopsgate Street in digging for the foundation of Gresham House. That paper was subsequently printed in the thirty-sixth volume of the Archæologia, and at page 209 the following passage occurs :—

“In the summer of 1853 the excavations on the north side of the Tower on Tower Hill showed in situ distinct remains of Roman work in part of the inclosure wall of Roman London on that side.
XX.—On the Mantle and the Ring of Widowhood
Authors: Harrod Henry
Published: January 2012

Sir Harris Nicolas printed in the Testamenta Vetusta an Abstract of the Will of the Lady Alice West of Hinton Marcel, widow of Sir Thomas West, dated in 1395, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
XXIX. Remarks on some Early Charters and Documents relating to the Priory of Austin Canons and Abbey of Austin Canonesses at Canonsleigh, in the County of Devon
Authors: Perceval Charles Spencer
Published: January 2012

It has been to me an agreeable task to comply with your request that I should examine and give you some account of the parcel of early documents, the exhibition of which before the Society of Antiquaries Miss Portman has been good enough to procure.
XX. Remarks on Four Deeds, of the time of Henry VI., with Seals appended; and a Memoir of Sir William Oldhalle, Knight. In a Letter to Joseph Jackson Howard, Esq., F.S.A.
Authors: Walford Weston Styleman
Published: January 2012

I have great pleasure in furnishing you with some remarks on the four Deeds, with seals, of the time of Henry VI., which you propose to lay before the Society, and also with a brief memoir of Sir William Oldhalle, whose seals are appended to those documents. A subject, that has interested me so much, may not be without interest to others.
XXI. Particulars respecting Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, with a fragment of the “Itinerarium ad Windsor.” written by Mr. Serjeant Fleetwood, Recorder of London
Authors: Bruce John
Published: January 2012

The communication which I desire to make to the Society on the present occasion will be found to be in some respects peculiarly unsatisfactory. It is a tale of an interesting manuscript, imperfect; of inquiries respecting it, unavailing; of researches, baffled on every hand; and now of an ultimate appeal to this Society, in the hope that some Member may supply the deficiencies which I have not been able to remove.
XXXI. Extract from a Record explanatory of Grants by Henry II. and Edward I. to certain Ostmen in Waterford of the privilege of “Lex Anglicorum in Hibernia.”
Authors: Phillipps Thomas
Published: January 2012

The original record, from which the Extract that follows was taken, has been preserved in the Bermingham Tower, Dublin. It contains the Pleas of the Crown and Gaol Delivery at Waterford, before John Wogan, Justiciary of Ireland, on Thursday the morrow of St. Matthias the Apostle (February 25), in the fourth year of the reign of Edward II. (1311), and will be seen to be somewhat illustrative of the social condition of the inhabitants of that part of Ireland at the time of the invasion by Henry II. and also at the commencement of the fourteenth century. The Ostmen mentioned in it were the descendants of the Norwegians, commonly spoken of as Danes, who had many years before formed permanent settlements on the coasts; as to whose history Worsaae's volume on the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland may be consulted with advantage. A few preliminary observations may serve to render the document more readily intelligible.
X.—Notes on a Picture representing the Three Children of Philip King of Castile, in the possession of Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., F.S.A.
Authors: Scharf George
Published: January 2012

The curious triptych figured in Plate XV. appears to have been, in the first instance, a gift from Philippe le Beau and Jeanne la Folle, parents of the children therein represented, to King Henry VII., to commemorate a visit which they unexpectedly paid to this country at the beginning of 1505.

The triptych has been ascertained, by means of a brief entry in an inventory taken for Henry VIII. of goods and furniture deposited in his Palace of Westminster, to have been royal property in 1542. It is there denominated “a folding table,” and occurs at the end of a long series of royal portraits.
XII.—Easter Sepulchres; their Object, Nature, and History
Authors: Heales Alfred
Published: January 2012

Some information respecting Easter Sepulchres may be met with in most works on mediæval archaeology ; but if the student wishes to know more about the subject, and compares their statements, he will find that the whole are derived from extremely limited sources. With respect to the structures known by the name, a paper in the Vetusta Monumenta, bearing the initials “R. G.” is the mine from which the other writers have dug their materials: and as for the ceremony for which the structures were used, one or two works furnish nearly all the little store of information yet opened to us.
XV.—Observations on the Roman Pilum
Authors: Wylie William Michael
Published: January 2012

The Roman Pilum is a quæstio vexata, which has been, for ages, an embarrassment to all thinking men given to the study of classical literature.
XVI.—An Inventory of the Effects of Henry Howard, K. G., Earl of Northampton, taken on his death in 1614, together with a transcript of his Will; prefaced by a Letter to Charles Spencer Perceval, Esq., LL.D., Director
Authors: Shirley Evelyn Philip
Published: January 2012

The Inventory which I have the honour to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries, by the kindness of its owner the Baroness North, was taken on the death of Henry Howard Earl of Northampton, June 15th 1614, and may not be unworthy of the notice of the Society, whether we consider the historical importance which must ever attach to the character of “The Lord Privy Seal,” as his Lordship is here officially called, disagreeably connected as his memory is with the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury ; or the still existing “Northampton,” or as it is now called Northumberland,” House, built by this same Earl, “with Spanish gold,” says Osborne, about the year 1605.
XIX.—A Mutilated Roll of Instruments relating to the Hospital of St. Edmund, at Sprotborough, near Doncaster; with prefatory remarks by Edward Peacock, Esq. F.S.A. Local Secretary for Lincolnshire : in a Letter addressed to Charles Spencer Perceval, Esq. LL.D. Director
Authors: Peacock Edward
Published: January 2012

I forward you herewith a transcript of all such portions as can be read of a mutilated roll in the possession of Sir Joseph William Copley, of Sprotborough, in the county of York, Baronet. I am indebted for my copy to the courtesy of Charles Jackson, Esq. of Balby. The handwriting of the document is not much more modern than the date of the last instrument contained in it. It was certainly executed during the fifteenth century, probably about the middle of that period.
V.—Notes on the cathedral church of Cefalù, Sicily
Authors: Hubbard George
Published: January 2012

Ever since 1838, when Mr. Gally Knight published his Normans in Sicily,” with a folio volume of drawings by Mr. George Moore, who accompanied him on his Sicilian tour, the cathedral church of Cefalú has been known to antiquaries and architectural students as the most important example of the earliest Sicilian Norman pointed style. Many years later it was visited by Professor Freeman, who unhappily did not survive to carry his Sicilian history into the medieval period; had he done so there can be little doubt that the present paper would have been wholly superfluous. The late Mr. Fergusson, the architect, also seems to have been familiar with the main features of the architecture, but whether from Mr. Knight's work or from actual inspection I am not in a position to say.
VII.—On an early Sixteenth Century MS. of English Music in the Library of Eton College
Authors: Squire W. Barclay
Published: January 2012

The MS. exhibited this evening by the Provost and Fellows of Eton College belongs to a class of which very few now exist in this country. It consists of a collection of motets and magnificats for several voices, the music of each part being so written upon opposite pages that when the book is open the different parts can be sung by all the singers at the same time. This was the earliest method of writing part-music. It is found in the great collection of church music formerly preserved at Trent, a collection which contains numerous specimens of the English composers of the fifteenth century; it is also found in the Modena MS. (the chief source of our knowledge of John Dunstable) at Bologna, and, indeed, in all early MSS. of mensurable music. The system was even followed by the printers of the great editions of Orlando di Lasso and of Palestrina, the arrangement of the various parts being precisely the same as in those of the MS. now before us. Subsequently superseded by the use of part-books, from which each singer could sing his own part, it was not until the seventeenth century that full scores appeared; before then they are practically non-existent, even in MS. Though we know from the evidence of the Bologna, Trent, and Modena MSS., that the early school of composition of which Dunstable was the founder must have rapidly arrived at a high degree of elaboration, if not of perfection, the traces of it now to be found in this country are extremely slight. It is this fact which makes the Eton MS. so valuable, for the compositions it contains are without exception by Englishmen, several of whom, as I shall presently hope to show, were men of high reputation in their day. So rare have collections of this sort become, that I believe I am right in saying that there are now in England only two other MSS. of the kind which, for size and importance of their contents, can at all compare with the Eton volume. These are respectively preserved in the Libraries of Lambeth Palace and of Caius College, Cambridge, both dating from a little later than the Eton book.
X.—Iron Casting in the Weald
Authors: Gardner J. Starkie
Published: January 2012

That iron could be melted and cast in moulds like other metals appears to have been known to the ancient Greeks, and it is not improbable that other nations of antiquity also became from time to time aware of the property; especially if it is the fact that primitive furnaces were sometimes constructed on exposed hillsides where the winds of heaven performed the function of bellows. Philosophers in all ages must have suspected, if indeed they did not absolutely know, that iron obeyed the universal law, melting as other metals do, but under a more intense heat. The absence of iron-casting in medieval times may be ascribed to the primitive hearths in general use, which were incapable of heating the ore to the melting point, while, no real demand existing, the iron-masters were never stimulated to furnish a supply.
V.—On the Descent and Arms of the House of Compton, of Compton Wyniate, in the County of Warwick, Earls and Marquises of Northampton
Authors: Shirley Evelyn Philip
Published: January 2012

The name of Compton or Combe-Town, a town or place in a valley, derived, according to Dugdale, “from the situation, in a low and deep valley, the word in the British and in the Saxon importing no less,” is generally distributed throughout the southern and midland counties of England: we find it in Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire. In some of these counties there are several places of this name, distinguished by different additional designations; in Warwickshire, besides Compton-Wyniate, (or, as I find it described in a deed of the 31st of Edward III. “atte Wynd-yate,” Wind-gate,) there is Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire, Compton-Murdock, now called, from the family of its present owner, Compton-Verney, and Compton-Scorfen, corruptly pronounced Scorpion, a hamlet in the parish of Ilmington ; there is also the parish of Fenny-Compton, between Wormleighton and Farnborough, in the same hundred of Kineton wherein the other four Warwickshire Comptons are situated. The neighbourhood of this last Compton with Compton-Wyniate, or “Compton in the Sole” as it is sometimes called, has been the cause of some difficulty; and, as I think I shall be able to prove, of much confusion in tracing the descents of two ancient families who derived their names from these two villages, one still existing, the other long extinct, and neither related to each other.
VIII.—An Account of Roman Remains found at Duston in Northamptonshire
Authors: Sharp Samuel
Published: January 2012

In the county of Northampton there are many sites which afford evidence of occupation by the Romans, either for military or domestic purposes.

Not only have we in the eastern extremity of the county, at Castor and in the neighbourhood, the remains of the city and great pottery works of Durobrivæ, with, in Huntingdonshire, the nearly-adjacent camp of Chesterton, and in the western portion of the county, near Daventry, the famous military station of Burrow Hill; but, besides these, along the valley of the Nen River and further westward, minor military stations are to be traced, which, occurring at short intervals, represent (as it has been suggested) a line of frontier and of military defence which was established by Ostorius Scapula, the Roman general in Britain under Claudius, and which extended from the Wash (Metaris Æstuarium) to the Bristol Channel.
IX.—Observations on two Ancient Irish Works of Art known as the Breac Moedog, or Shrine of St. Moedoc of Ferns, and the Soiscel Molaise, or Gospel of St. Molaise of Devenish
Authors: Stokes Miss
Published: January 2012

I have the honour to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries drawings and photographs of two remarkable objects of early Irish workmanship, one of them being a shrine destined for the reception of relics, the other a costly box or cover for a copy of the Gospels. Besides the ecclesiastical destination common to both these works, there is another link between them, namely, their traditional connection with the two famous Irish Saints whose respective names they bear, and who, during their lives, were closely united in the bonds of friendship.
X.—Discoveries made during Excavations at Canterbury in 1868
Authors: Pilbrow James
Published: January 2012

In April last, immediately after the discovery was made, I had the pleasure to forward to the Society of Antiquaries a coloured photograph and short description of a portion of a tessellated Roman floor or pavement discovered in Burgate Street, in the city of Canterbury, and I then promised to communicate, when the operations then in progress should have been, completed, a general description of what might be further discovered, which promise I will now endeavour to redeem.
XI.—The Charter and Statutes of the College of the Minor Canons in S. Paul's Cathedral, London
Authors: Simpson W. Sparrow
Published: January 2012

The history of an English Cathedral is an integral part of the history of England. Kings have been its nursing fathers and Queens its nursing mothers. Its charters are an important part of the national records. Its foundation, its decay, its restoration, mark epochs in the religious progress of the country. He who would tell the whole story of a cathedral can scarcely pass over without mention any great event of the national history; alike in war and in peace, in time of religious calm and in periods of wild fanatical discord, the grey time-honoured walls of the cathedral have borne their part. It has been the home of religion, the centre of light, the sanctuary where were gathered together the relics of poets, statesmen, warriors, theologians, kings; the last resting-place of the best and greatest men that have adorned the nation's annals.
XIV.—Notes on Inscribed Strigils
Authors: Newton C. T.
Published: January 2012

In the interesting collection of antiquities from the Cyrenaica which the Museum has recently acquired through Mr. Dennis, is the handle of a bronze strigil, on which are stamped the words ΤΡΙΑΚΑΤΙΩΝ ΑΘΛΟΝ. The letters, which are in relief within an oblong incuse, are of a good period. The τριακάς was a political division of the φυλή at Athens, and of the ὠβή at Sparta, and the τριακάτιοι were the ephebi belonging to a τριακάς. In an inscription discovered by Smith and Porcher at Cyrene, and published in their History of Discoveries, p. 110, No. 6, which gives a list of various military divisions, we find, line 14, τριακατιάρχαι, and lines 51 and 52, ζύμμ[οροι]? τοῖς τριακατίοις. This inscription, taken in connection with that on the strigil, confirms the statement of Eustath. in Odyss. p. 292, 1. 26, ed. Lips. 1825, ἐν Κυρήνῃ τοὺς ἐφήβονς τριακατίους καλοῦσι. See Hesych. s. v. τριακάτιοι. ed. Albert, ii. p. 1412, and note 26, ibid. The inscription on the strigil shows that it was the prize given to the ephebi, probably for a victory in some gymnastic contest.
XVII.—Notes on Excavations in Rome during the Winter of 1868-9
Authors: Parker John Henry
Published: January 2012

The recent excavations in Rome, of which I gave you some account at this time last year, have been carried on with constantly increasing vigour, and the results obtained in the way of more accurate information have not been less important.

Site of Porta Capena disputed.—By fixing the site of the Porta Capena we almost necessarily fix the sites of other buildings in that part of ancient Rome—the first regio of Augustus—and we demonstrate that the whole of the fourteen regiones were within the existing walls, as there were strong reasons to believe on other grounds.
I.—Discovery of the Will of Hans Holbein
Authors: Black William Henry , Franks Augustus W.
Published: January 2012

The Will of John or Hans Holbeine, recently discovered by Mr. Black in St. Paul's Cathedral, and communicated by him to the Society, with some remarks, on the 14th of February, 1861, has excited the interest not only of the Fellows of our Society, but also of artists and connoisseurs both in this country and abroad.
V.—On the Discovery of Roman Remains on Kingston Down, near Bere Regis, in the county of Dorset, and the identification of the site as the Station of Ibernium, on the Via Iceniana; by which a removal is effected of some discrepancies in the Fifteenth Iter of Antonine
Authors: Warne Charles
Published: January 2012

The most careless student of the Antonine Itinerary cannot fail to remark its frequent discrepancies; not only will he find stations mentioned which it is very difficult to identify, but distances given as terminating at points where not only are no evidences of former occupation to be found, but where (in some instances) none can be supposed to have existed. Should, however, the impress of Roman occupation be yet discernible, the Roman name of the site has frequently been either lost or misappropriated.
VI.—On the Brick Architecture of the North of Germany
Authors: Nesbitt Alexander
Published: January 2012

The surface of that part of Europe which lies between the Baltic and the German Ocean on the north, and the Carpathians, the Sudeten Gebirge, the Riesengebirge, Thüringerwald, and Hartz on the south, is composed of sand or clay, and affords no other building stone than granitic boulders, supposed to have been transported thither from the Scandinavian mountains. These boulders furnished the stone from which many churches were built in the twelfth and earlier part of the thirteenth centuries; but the deposit being superficial was soon exhausted, and the hardness of the material precluded the use of ornamental detail.
VII.—Observations on a Manuscript Account of the Treaty of Newport, A.D. 1648, in the possession of the Right Hon. the Earl of Verulam
Authors: Bruce John
Published: January 2012

By permission of the Right Hon. the Earl of Verulam I am enabled to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries a folio MS. volume which contains an account of the Treaty held at Newport in the Isle of Wight in the months of September, October, and November, 1648, between King Charles I. and certain Commissioners appointed by the Parliament.
VIII.—Explorations des anciens Cimetières de Roux-Mesnil et d'Etran en Normandie, suivies de détails sur la Sépulture chrétienne du Moyen-âge
Authors: Cochet M. l'Abbé
Published: January 2012

Roux-Mesnil est un modeste village dont le nom rappelle le conquérant de la Normandie. Il est situé au milieu de la plaine qui sépare la vallée de la Scie de celle de la Varenne, à une distance à peu près égale du château d'Arques et de la ville de Dieppe. L'église de ce hameau, abandonnée en 1812 et complètement détruite en 1839, était située au milieu des champs labourés, dans un bosquet planté d'arbres et de pommiers, qui forment au sein de la campagne un verdoyant oasis.
XI.—On the Discovery of the Remains of the Priory of Austin Friars at Ludlow
Authors: Botfield Beriah
Published: January 2012

The early history of Ludlow has been so well detailed by Mr. Eyton in his Antiquities of Shropshire, and has been so elaborately illustrated by Mr. Wright in his volume specially devoted to the subject, that I need not enlarge on its general history in endeavouring to elucidate the recently discovered remains of the Priory of Austin Friars. I cannot, however, refrain from quoting the graphic description of Churchyarde, who, writing in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, thus describes Ludlow:—

The Town doth stand most part upon an hill,

Built well and fair, with streets both large and wide,

The houses such where strangers lodge at will,

As long as there the Council liste abide.

Both fine and clean the streets are all throughout,

With condits cleere and wholesome water springe,

And who that list to walk the Town about,

Shall find therein some rare and pleasant thinge;

But chiefly here the ayre so sweet you have,

As in no place you can no better crave.
XIX.—Observations upon the nature of the Tenure or Service of Cornage
Authors: Nichols Francis Morgan
Published: January 2012

It is not without reason that singularities in the tenure of land have always excited considerable interest among antiquaries. For in that state of society which prevailed in Europe during the middle ages, the relation of the individual to the soil on which he lived determined his most important relations with his fellow men and his political and social condition. An accurate and minute acquaintance with the nature of tenures is therefore an object of no slight consequence with the student of medieval history.
XXVI. On the method of interpreting Egyptian Hieroglyphics by Young and Champollion, with a vindication of its correctness from the strictures of Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Authors: Poole Reginald Stuart
Published: January 2012

The subject on which I have the honour to address you is the correctness of the method of interpreting Hieroglyphics originated by Dr. Young and developed by Champollion. This method, after having long been generally accepted by scholars, is now seriously attacked, and the learning of the assailant demands as serious a defence. The question is one of much graver importance than at first appears. The immediate results of the interpretation of the hieroglyphic inscriptions seem meagre and uninteresting, but it will be found that these results have been largely used by almost all inquirers into the primaeval period of the world's history. To abandon them is nothing less than to go back at least thirty years in this province of historical inquiry. If we have erred let us frankly acknowledge the fault and retrace our steps, but let this not be done without a careful consideration of the evidence before us.
I. Memoir on a Mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest Map hitherto known containing the name of America; now in the Royal Collections at Windsor: in a Letter addressed to Augustus Wollaston Franks, Esq., Director
Authors: Major Richard Henry
Published: January 2012

I have had placed in my hands by B. B. Woodward, Esq., F.S.A., the Queen's Librarian, a Map of the World, which he has found in Her Majesty's Library at Windsor, in the collection of papers in the handwriting of Leonardo da Vinci. Mr. Woodward's object in sending it to me was that I might ascertain as nearly as possible the date of its construction, from the nature of the geographical information which it contained. It was evident at a glance that, apart from the value attaching to it from its connection with so illustrious a name as that of Leonardo da Vinci, the map possessed an intrinsic interest in connection with the history of geography and cartography, inasmuch as it not only belonged to a period fertile in geographical discoveries, though scantily represented by maps which have come to our knowledge, but contained delineations of a stage in those discoveries not represented at all in any map with which I am acquainted. Independently of this, it happens to possess some special points of priority of information, which have led me to think it desirable to submit it, with the following notice of its contents, to the attention of the Society of Antiquaries.
II.—Observations on the Primitive Site, Extent, and Circumvallation of Roman London
Authors: Black William Henry
Published: January 2012

Without at present attempting to discuss the question whether a city, town, or village occupied the present site of the city of London before the Roman invasion of this country, it is enough for the purpose of this paper to assume as a fixed fact, resting on irresistible evidence and which all parties admit, that the existing area of the city proper, that is, the space between the walls and gates which stood a little more than a century ago, was (with the exception of the Blackfriars' precinct) occupied by the Romans up to the time when their legions were recalled to the continent, and the Roman government ceased in this island. But. that the whole of this area was originally the city, is not, I believe, asserted by any antiquaries or historians; it is evidently too large to have been originally selected or laid out for a city, being capable of containing several of the cities and towns which were built and walled in by the Romans in this country.
V.—Remarks upon Holbein's Portraits of the Royal Family of England, and more particularly upon the several Portraits of the Queens of Henry the Eighth
Authors: Nichols John Gough
Published: January 2012

The papers which have been recently published in our Archæologia have established, and in some measure illustrated, the important fact in the history of art, that the great painter Hans Holbein died in the year 1543, eleven years sooner than his biographers had previously supposed.
X.—Royston Court House and its Appurtenances
Authors: Beldam Joseph
Published: January 2012

At the beginning of the seventeenth century the town of Royston had entirely lost its monastic character. For more than half a century its venerable priory had been dissolved; the solemn chant was no longer heard within its walls; the holy brotherhood had been dispersed, and the youngest among them before this time had probably paid the debt of nature. A new era had arrived. The site of the priory, with the buildings upon it, and a manor, including a great part of the town, had been sold to Mr. Robert Chester, one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to King Henry VIII., and the conventual edifices had been converted into a private mansion. About the same time as the priory, the free hospital of St. James and St. John of Jerusalem, and the free chapel of St. Nicholas, had been secularized; and the hermitage at the cross, beneath which lay the long-concealed but since celebrated cave or oratory, had been transformed by the lord of the manor into a market house and a prison, designed for the use of both sides of the parish, then newly created.
XI.—On the Annulus Piscatoris, or Ring of the Fisherman
Authors: Waterton Edmund
Published: January 2012

To keep up the remembrance of the poor Fisherman of Galilee the Roman Pontiffs adopted the custom of sealing their private letters with a signet-ring which bore the device of St. Peter seated in a boat and drawing a net from the waters.
XII.—On the unpublished work entitled “Antiquarius” by Hieronymus Bononius, of Treviso, and his Poetical Remains; including a Poem on the Revivors of Literature in the Fifteenth Century who were personally known to that Author
Authors: Black William Henry
Published: January 2012

Although literary history is less prominently an object of this learned Society, and has less claim for discussion at its meetings than other branches of antiquarian knowledge, yet I may expect to be indulged with your special attention this evening, while I lay before you a long-lost work of one of the Revivors of Literature in the fifteenth century, and that the autograph and unique copy of a production, entitled Antiquarius, or “Two books of The Antiquary.”
XVI.—Memoranda on the question of the Use of Human Sacrifices among the Romans
Authors: Donne William Bodham
Published: January 2012

In the volume of “Miscellanies,” which has recently appeared under the able editing of your Lordship, are some remarks by Lord Macaulay, Sir Robert Peel, and yourself, on the Use of Human Sacrifices by the Romans. These remarks, which I have read with great interest, lead me to turn to various passages in classical authors that bear on the subject. The result of my inquiry I take the liberty of forwarding to your Lordship. I have not attempted to make any selection of the extracts, and, as I have no theory to support, I must request your Lordship to consider them merely materials for the use of some one with more leisure and greater ability than myself.
I.—Parliamentary Proceedings in 1628
Authors: Peacock Edward
Published: January 2012

The manuscript from which the accompanying extracts are made came into my possession by purchase about eleven years ago. I know nothing whatever of its history, except what is disclosed by a pencil note in a modern hand on the inside of the first board of the cover. This memorandum states that the book came “From Lord Somers' Library, having passed into his private Secretary's possession, & from him to his family.” As this statement is unsigned, and as I have been unable to identify the hand-writing, I know not what amount of trust to place in it. The first page of the table of contents has upon it the signature of “Wm Milbourne.” It seems about a century old.
XIII.—The Foundation of the Priories of St. Mary and of St. John, Clerkenwell
Authors: Round J. H.
Published: January 2012

On the first page of M. Delaville le Roulx' sumptuous Cartulaire Général of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem there is printed a charter relating to Clerkenwell, in which the Hospitallers are mentioned, and which is there assigned to circa 1100. As the Order itself was only founded (if indeed it was) in the year preceding, this would be the earliest charter in which it is mentioned in Europe, and its well-known priory at Clerkenwell, the first to be founded. It is again on the authority of this charter, which “se place vers 1100,” that M. Delaville le Roulx asserts in his introduction that:

“L'Ordre comptait dans les Iles Britanniques de nombreux établissements, dont les plus anciens remontaient aux premières années du xiie siècle ” (p. clvii.).
XV.—On an ancient Conduit-head in Queen Square, Bloomsbury
Authors: Norman Philip
Published: January 2012

The monk Fitzstephen, who wrote a graphic account of London in the twelfth century, which is printed separately by Stow in his Survey, tells us that there are “on the northern side, in the suburbs, excellent springs, the water of which is clear, sweet, and salubrious, amongst which Holywell, Clerkenwell, and St. Clement's well are of most note, and most visited, as well by the scholars from the schools as by the youth of the city, when they go out to take the air in the summer evenings”; and Stow, who materially extends the list, mentions the religious plays performed by the parish clerks at Clerkenwell and at Skinners' well hard by, where in 1409 they gave a dramatic performance which lasted eight days.
XV.—The “Remonstrance” of Anne of Cleves
Authors: Macray William Dunn
Published: January 2012

When, in words which were prompted by others, Queen Anne of Cleves had declared, upon receiving the report of Convocation against the validity of her marriage with Henry VIII. that she at once accepted and approved their sentence, although she also declared that her case was a very hard and sorrowful one from the great love which she bore to the king; and when, further, she had written (under similar dictation) to her brother to announce this her acquiescence, and to assure him that the divorce need not cause any cessation of friendship between him and the sovereign who now called her “sister” instead of “wife;” it was no wonder that the separation appeared to excite little attention or sympathy either at home or abroad. The happy temper of equanimity which enabled Anne to bear her lot so calmly, with such fortunate results of peace and comfort for herself to the end of her days, prevented the arousing of any such interest as might have been wakened had she made some passionate appeal to her countrymen and friends, or refused to lay down at the king's bidding the rank to which he had called her. Only once (as it was supposed) when, in a short year and a half after the divorce, her successor was in the Tower awaiting her own condemnation, was there any step taken to urge the claims of Anne; and we may well believe that the then abortive negociation of her brother's ambassador, who in December 1541 sought to enlist the sympathies of Cranmer and of the Earl of Southampton in her behalf, was one which had hardly been undertaken with her knowledge and approval at a time when the perils of royal wifehood were being so evidently demonstrated.
XX.—On the Recent Discoveries of Portions of Old St. Paul's Cathedral
Authors: Penrose Francis Cranmer
Published: January 2012

In the spring of 1878 it was requisite to sink a pit, about twelve feet deep, on the south side of the nave of St. Paul's Cathedral, and within a few feet of the walls, for a gas-meter.

Near the bottom of this pit was found a fragment of a foundation which seemed to belong to the old Cathedral. It was evidently not of the Norman construction, because it was partly formed of Norman fragments. It seemed therefore to belong to the cloister or chapter-house.
IV.—Some account of Savaric, bishop of Bath and Glastonbury 1192—1205
Authors: Church C.M.
Published: January 2012

“Savaric is a person whose career if it could be explored would be very interesting.” So wrote Dr. Stubbs in 1865. The history of Savaric is yet to be written.

Some knowledge of his episcopate is necessary for the consideration of the question whether any part of the fabric of the church was his work.
V.—Bibliographical Notes on the English Translation of Polydore Vergil's work, “De Inventoribus Rerum.”
Authors: Ferguson John
Published: January 2012

Considering how characteristic of this century are the development of invention and the application of discoveries in pure science to every-day uses, the history of invention, and the comparison of recent advances with those in the past, ought to be interesting and instructive. For the materials for such a narrative and such a comparison the historian has to depend on what remains of the practical works of former times, on allusions to their uses by contemporary writers, on early descriptions of the arts, on collections of technical receipts, and especially on the labours of previous historians, who—perhaps under great disadvantages—have already laboriously brought together some of the needed material and have begun the record. Among the most distinguished pioneers of such historical inquiry stands Polydore Vergil.
IX.—On some Ancient Paintings in churches of Athens
Authors: Westlake N.H.J.
Published: January 2012

The accompanying notes are made for the purpose of introducing to the Society the beautiful copies of ancient frescoes from the churches of Athens which have been lent for exhibition by the Marquis of Bute. His lordship had these copies made during his stay at Athens in 1885. He has given a full account of them in an essay on “Some Christian Monuments of Athens,” published in the Scottish Review (July 1885), and the descriptions of the pictures given in this paper are quoted from his lordship's essay. These paintings and the monuments containing them are of course subject to decay, but they are, it appears, in greater danger of wilful destruction from speculative excavations to unearth monuments more ancient, or from attempts to make use of the materials of such monuments for new buildings. It is from no wanton vandalism that such destruction arises, but it is evidently the result of the uncultivated condition of the present race of Athenians. In the article in the Scottish Review the writer thus comments on this unsatisfactory state of things:—

A decree of Otho L, dated May 20, 1836, placed at the disposal of the Ministry of Public Worship every ruined church in Greece, however important historically or however precious artistically, as a mine for the building of new places of public worship, the new University of Athens, &c. This decree is conceived as if no such things as History or Art existed. The results have been terrible, and Finlay, as an eye-witness, speaks of “the destruction of numerous mediæval churches which formed a valuable link in the records of Athens, and an interesting feature in Athenian topography, while they illustrated the history of art by their curious and sometimes precious paintings.”
XII.—Observations on a portrait of Queen Elizabeth, from Boughton House, Northants, the property of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K. T.
Authors: Scharf George
Published: January 2012

Considering the almost countless portraits of Queen Elizabeth that are known to exist, it is remarkable how very few actual repetitions there are among them. With other portraits of distinguished and popular characters the case is quite different, as they may be classified into so many groups in each of which the pictures are exactly alike.

The portrait which I have the honour of describing this evening, by favour of the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Walter Scott, has the peculiarity of not standing alone. It possesses a very interesting counterpart at Westminster, in the Dean's library, where it is inserted in a panel over the fireplace. Being a fixture, there is unfortunately no possibility of its being brought hither for examination. Before, however, entering into a comparison of the two pictures, it may be well to consider some of the characteristics of the portrait before us.
XIV.—Jocelin, bishop of Bath, 1206-1242
Authors: Church C.M.
Published: January 2012

Reginald and Savaric, bishops of Bath at the end of the twelfth century, were succeeded by Jocelin of Wells, 1206-1242.

I proceed to treat of his history, so far as it is contained in original records at Wells.

The chapter registers at Wells have lately been calendared and published in Report X. part iii. 1885, of the Historical MSS. Commission; but many of the charters there registered are undated, and they are arranged without regard to chronological sequence. It is a work requiring much patience and insight into the text to determine their place and to arrange them in their relative order.