1731-2, March 15.-Silver seal, English, found at Peterborough in February, 1731-2, by a labourer as he was digging up the rubbish of an old wall on the south side of the Bishop's palace, having been formerly part of the old abbey. The seal itself is of silver, not the least bruised or defaced, and weighed about 3s. 2d. sterling. It is now in the possession of the Right Rev. Father in God, Robert, Lord Bishop of Peterborough, being his Lordship's property as being found within his Lordship's demesnes.

Seal within a foiled and cusped circle, the modern arms of Hereford on a shield with *

SOVCHE EST CANTOLOVE.

June 21, 1732.-Dr. Stukely describes ye camp at Horsey bridge betwixt Standground and Whittlesea, which he takes to be of Civil war time, or an old Roman one.

1732, November 8.-Secretary proposes that as time of evening prayers at the Cathedral is altered from 4 to 3, meetings of Society commence for winter season immediately after prayers.

1733, February 14.-Communicated to the Society by the Secretary a fair MS. of the Charters of the Priory of Bishmede, in Bedfordshire, now in the custody of William Gery, Esq.

1733, May 9.-The Secretary gave an account of a curious tesselated pavement discovered last week in Castor Churchyard by the sexton digging a grave for a poor woman. The squares were small and of different colours, and so intermixed as to form larger squares of more than a foot which run through the whole work. When washed and cleaned the colours appeared exceeding bright, but the whole pavement was so strongly cemented together that the sexton could get up no one piece of it without defacing it, and the coffin was afterwards layd upon it. I enquired then for some medalls or what they called Dormans, but as they were formerly found there in very great plenty, they are now but seldome to be met with.

Castor was undoubtedly a Roman station, and, according to the best conjectures of the most learned Antiquarians, was the Durobriva of Antoninus. It was certainly, as appears by the ruines, a city of large extent, and reached not only from the top of the Hill above the town, but down mill field and along the meadow by the river-side, where it was joyned by a large stone bridge to the camp on the other side at Chesterton, in Huntingdonshire. The Erming street or great portway northwards lay through it.

May 23.-Mr. John Clement communicated his collection of several remarkable epitaphs, ancient and modern, in ye Minster Church and Churchyard of this city not noticed by Gunton, Willis, etc.

A similar MS. by Mr. John Clement is now in the possession of Lord Melville.

1733, October 24.-The Treasurer communicated the inscription upon the boundary stone at Brotherhouse between the abbot of Croyland and prior of Spalding in these characters:

AIO HANC PETRAM GVHLACVS HIC

SIBI METAM.

Nov. 14, 1733.-Mr. John Clement presented the Society with. his Repertorium or survey of this Cathedral, containing all the Inscriptions omitted by Gunton and Willis in their histories of this church, with a continuation down to this present year, 1733, in 24 pages quarto, wrote in fair hand and taken with great

exactness.

1734, January 2.-Mr. Strong communicated four medals from the collection found at March: one of Mark Anthony, the other three of Domitian, Trajan, and Faustina, great numbers of which three last were found there.

June 11, 1735.-Rev. Mr. Mason, Rector of Cotesworth, near · Grantham (where Sir Is. Newton was born), presents a "peter's peny" found with several others of same sort in digging a grave in his ch'yard. It is a coyn of Wm. the Conqueror.

July 9, 1735.-Sec'ty: Rector of Alwalton reads notes on its History.

Given to S. Petri de Burgo by Leofwynus Alderman filius Elfwyne or Leofwini Swapham f. 121.

1735, September 3.-The Secretary communicated an Ancient Medow book, belonging to the parish of Alwalton, with the different marks of the proprieters, measured by the 14 foot pole, and made near 200 years ago, and wrote in a fair hand upon Velum.

Oct. 1, 1735.-Society approach L'd B'p to permit their meeting in roome over gateway.

Nov. 26, 1735.-An MS. on Velom and neatly illumined in 12° intitled "Summa Reymunde," on ye top of ye first page is written Liber Croylandie 10 yt I suppose formerly belonged to yt monastery. Ample alphabetical Index ab'nd and in another hand in yt last page is Iohecs Oldfield de Spalding.

1736, April 20.-The Secretary presented a coyn of the Emperor Victorinus who, upon the death of Posthumius senr., was made Emperor in Gaul.

IMP VIC VICTORINVS PF AVG.-Cap. Victorini radiatum.

This coyn he found as he was walking over the old Roman Camp, called the Castle Grounds, in Chesterton, in which place great numbers of medals and other Roman curiosities have been found.

June 23.-Society present one of those ancient instruments, called celts, of which there remain only three in our museum, to B. Bell, Esq. One went as a present to Spalding Society.

September 23.-Mr. Kennett presented an ancient seal, lately found at Caster, with the image of St. James the Apostle, neatly carved upon wood, and the arms of Lynn upon it, with this Legend round it:

COM SIGILL HOSPIT: S JACCBI. IN. LENNARE.

1737, May 18.-The Rev. Mr. Bambridge presented to the Society several fragments of urns or potts, dug up lately in his Church at Gotherstoke.

1738, April 5.-The Secretary presented a small brass medal of Alectus, the reverse: a ship, VIRTUS AUG., at bottom, S.P. This medal was lately found with several others in Chesterton Camp.

Jany. 10, 1739.—Mr. Strong communicates ye original dispensation of Cardinal Woolsey to ye people of March in ye Isle of Ely for non-attendance of Divine Service in their parish church of Dodyngton, and for having ye same performed in ye Church or Chapel of Gwendrede at March, etc., dated Nov. 1526.

1739, January 24.-The Secretary communicated an account of some ancient painting upon the inside cover of an Ark or Chest in Castor Church, viz: three portraits of about a foot long each, Our Saviour in the middle, and on each side a female Saint, which he supposes to be the two Sister Saints of Castor, Kynebeorgh and Kyneswytha, daughters of King Penda, and Sisters of Penda and Wulfere, the founders of this Church and Monastery.

February 14.—The Secretary communicated an original grant upon Velom of Oliver St. John, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Bench at Westminster, and Lord of the Manor of the City of Peterborough and members of the same, to William Parker, of Peterborough, Gentleman and Tenant of the Said Manor, of an immunity and privilege of being free and acquitted of and from the payment of all, and all manner of Tole in, or at all and singular markets, fairs, wayes, passages, bridges, and ports of the sea through England and without, upon the penalty of ten pounds to be forfeited by such as make destraint or interruption upon the Said William Parker in the lawful exercise of his vocation or trade in buying, selling, or otherwise, according to ancient charters, therein specified, granted, and confirmed by the devout King Edgar, and also Richard the First and other Kings and Queens of England, to the Tenants of the City of Peterborough, dated the 20 day of April, in the year of Our Lord God, according to the account used in England one thousand six hundred fifty and eight.

Ol: St. Johne against his Seal.

February 28.-Secretary communicated copy of an Inscription upon a black marble in the west front of this Minster, near to the door, and now quite worn out;

April 4.-The Secretary acquainted the Society that in ploughing up the high road between Chesterton and Water Newton, the workmen had turned a leaden coffin adjoining to the old Roman Camp there, now called the Castle Grounds. It lay almost north and south; the bones were in it, which they buried in the ground and carried the coffin, weighing 400 pound weight, to the Cabbin. In throwing up the ground, the labourers found a great number of Coyns of the Bass Empire both Silver and Copper, and several fragments of Roman antiquities.

April 11.-The Secretary presented several of the Roman Coyns lately thrown up in the Chesterton Road, and an account of some others which he saw in the hands of Mr. Taylor of the Cabbin. (Cates Cabbin).

a M. COMMODVS ANTONINVS Cap
d. virgam. sin. hastam .

Image. b Imp. stans

IMP IIII COS III PP. S.C.

s. c. Imp. stans.

a MAXIMVS NOB. CAES. b Hercules pelle leon dex. pateram in medio A. sub TR. GENIO POPVLI ROMANI

a GALLIENVS PF AVG. Cap. Imperatoris corona radial.

a IMP DIOCLETIANVS. AVG. b mulier stans d. pateram supra altare. s. corn. cop. sub. DEC. GENIO POPVLI ROMANI

a FAVSTINA AVGVSTA 6 Mulier d. Palladem. sin. supra Clypeum S. C. . . . VICTRICI

...

a SABINA AVGVSTA 6 Imp1 sedens in cathedra. dex. pateram sin. hastam .

а IMP C. M. AVR

corn. cop. DIVIT

a L SEPTIMIVS

DIA AVG.

AVG. b fœmina stans d. palman s.

COS PP.

AVG. b Duo milites manus inter se

dantes. FELICITAS . . POP

a IMP VERVS PIVS AVG. b Mulier stans d. sistrum. sin, corn. cop. LIBERALITAS. AVG.

α IMP C. ALLECTVS PF AVG. cap. rad. b Navis VIRTVS AVG. sub Oce.

a IMP C. CARAVSIVS PF AVG. Cap. rad. b Mulier stans d. sin. corn. cop. PAX. AVG. in medio R. P Sub. xxi.

April 25.-The Secretary gave the Society an account of four stone coffins found in the road betwixt Chesterton and Water Newton. All four lying across the north and south inclining towards the east. In the first was found a skeliton of a woman, as is supposed, with the small bones of an infant, the ribs not above the 3 inches long and entire. In the other three were found bones, in taking out of which the workmen, with their spades and pickaxes broke to pieces several small earthen potts: one remains entire in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Old, Rector of Chesterton, in the shape of a common mustard-pot, another, broken, like a narrow-neck decanter, being, I suppose, the lachrymatory vessels usually deposited in the graves along with the deceased. There was also one gold earring or jewel found in one of them in possession of Mrs. Child, of Yaxley. The coffins, three of them, were strait and even like a trough differing not above one inch in breadth betwixt the head and the feet. The largest, now in possession of Mr. Edwards of Water Newton, measures outside, from end to end, 7 feet 3 inches, inside 6 feet 4 inches, breadth at the head 2 feet, 4 inches, at the foot 2 ft. 3 ins., depth within almost 2 foot It has no device upon it, only on the outside is furrowed with the tool slant wise about inch deep; the other are all plain. One is of the common shape, wide at the head and narrow at the feet. They had each of them a plain cover of free stone.

August 8.-The Secretary communicated to the Society:

The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the Soak of Peterborough, within the County of Northampton, containing about forty towns and villages, against the Undertakers their, with exceptions to their Act, setting forth how and wherein they abused the parliament by their false suggestions, and a relation of a new reviving of an Old Court Project terribly to threaten those who oppose self ended designs, May 28, 1650. This pamphlet, in 4to, contains 13 pages, and sets forth very ingeniously the hardships which the inhabitants of this Soak were like to suffer from the incroachments and oppressions of the Earl of Bedford and his participants, with a copy of a warrant signed by

FRAN QUARLES.
JOHN CLEYPOLE.
WILLIAM LERFIELD.

September 27.-The Treasurer, Mr. Marshall, presented to the Society several pieces of ancient brick plowed up in Oxney fields belonging to Mrs. Bevil, the workmanship of which is curiously wrought with several neat whole figures in the middle and other embelishments on the sides.

November 14.-The Secretary communicated an account of the Roman pavement found last summer at Weldon in Northants (a long gallery of 92 feet in length and 12 broad, from which they