Provinces and Spain respectively, and granted by King George III to Captain Thomas Alston, "of the ship Ceres of Lancaster, of about 341 tons, carvel built, has a square stern, figure-head, and three masts, mounted with twenty carriage guns carrying shot of 9 and 18 lbs. weight". Mr. Nichols also exhibited the marriage certificate of the same Thomas Alston with Caroline Shewell, which marriage was contracted at Gretna Green in 1819, "according to the way of the Church of England, and agreeable to the laws of the Kirk of Scotland".

Mr. Cann Hughes, of Lancaster, has forwarded the following interesting note on this subject :- In illustration of Mr. W. J. Nicholls' exhibits on June 1, it may be worthy of note that there were evidently two seamen of the same name sailing from the port of Lancaster at the same time. In the now closed graveyard attached to the parish church of St. Mary, in Lancaster, is a slate tombstone bearing the following inscription :

"In Memory of

THOMAS ALSTON, MASTER MARINER,
who died at Sea, 16th June, 1807,
Aged 40 Years.

ALICE, widow of the above,
who died 24th April, 1825,
Aged 56 Years.

ELLEN their Daughter,
who died 22nd April, 1795,
Aged 4 Years and 2 Months.

Also of Infant Twins.

WILLIAM their Son, Merchant, who died
at the Island of Tortola, 10th October, 1821,
Aged 20 Years.

JOHN ALSTON, son of the above,
died at Sea on the 13th March, 1827,
in his 22nd Year.

ANN JANE ATHERTON, granddaughter of the above, who died Sept. 15th, 1841. Aged 20 Years."

Mrs. Collier read a paper upon the church of St. Crantock, in Cornwall, which was a well-endowed collegiate church before the coming of St. Augustine. The legend of St. Carantoc, who lived and laboured in the sixth century, and was a companion of St. Patrick, is well authenticated, and the dedication of the church to him is an illustration of the British habit of dedicating churches to their own special saints. He preached throughout Cornwall, and the wonderful

stories of his taming and extirpating serpents are, like the similar ones of St. Patrick, merely a poetic way of describing the conversion of the heathen. At the Dissolution the church possessed nine prebends, and was rated at £19 3s. 6d. It is now almost buried in the sand, is quaint and rudely designed, and has remains of very early work. The paper was well illustrated by drawings and photographs.

The Rev. W. S. Lach-Szyrma read a valuable paper upon the "Preservation of Antiquities", and the duty of carefully protecting monuments of every kind, even those of remote and out-of-the-way places, as bestowing on the locality special historical, antiquarian, or artistic interest. Our national antiquities were a part of the heritage of the ages. What then, he asked, were we doing towards preserving them? We were very much behind other civilised European nations in the steps we have taken for the preservation of our national antiquities. In France the vote for preserving or purchasing antiquities is usually £50,000 per annum, and in the colony of Algeria antiquities belong to the State. In Austria there is a central commission for preserving monuments, which works with local societies. In Switzerland there is a federal commission, and over £2,000 per annum is voted for Swiss antiquities; while rich England can only afford, under Sir J. Lubbock's Bill, £100 for expenses and £250 for inspector's salary. In Denmark, in 1895, the grant for this purpose was £1,500. In Italy the destruction of antiquities is a legal offence. In Spain the Government acts with the provincial authorities in cataloguing and preserving antiquities, and even in Russia there exists a similar commission. The author considered that in England an Act of Parliament should be passed requiring the licence of the Home Secretary, or other high official, for permission to destroy or mutilate any edifice or other monument erected before the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and this limit might subsequently be extended to include all seventeeth-century buildings and monuments. He also thought that the presidents of the chief archæological societies ought to be consulted before a licence was issued.

The Chairman, Mr. Gould, the Rev. H. D. Astley, and Mr. Patrick took part in the discussion.

Obituary.

REV. JOHN CAVE-BROWNE.

THIS cultured clergyman passed peacefully away at his home at Detling, Kent, on June 13th. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1840; M.A. 1843. He was curate of Burtle, Somerset, 1841-2; curate of St. Mary, Lambeth, 1842-51; became a chaplain in India in the latter year, and received the medal for bravery with the Punjaub Column in 1857. Returning from India in 1870, he was curate of St. James, Bermondsey, for two years, and subsequently of Brasted, Kent. In 1875 he was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the vicarage of Detling: he was also Honorary Librarian of the Lambeth Library.

He was a prolific author on Indian and other subjects; his main books are:

1860.-Punjab and Delhi in 1857; and in the following years many other works on India.

He became a Member of this Association on Nov. 19th, 1890. He has read the following papers before the Society :-

1891, June 3rd.-"Penenden Heath."

1891, November 18th.-" Abbots of Bexley."
1892, April 6th." The Seals of Bexley Abbey."

1893, January 4th." Detling Church."

1893, March 1st.-"Leeds Priory, Kent."

1893, November 15th." Leeds Church, Kent."

1894, January 7th." In and about Leeds and Bromfield Parishes, Kent."

1894, November 21st." An Ancient Record concerning St. Augustine's

Abbey, Canterbury."

1895, March 6th.-" Otham Church and Parish."

1895, December 4th.-"The Isle of Purbeck and its Marble."

1896, December 2nd.-"The Fraternity of Corpus Christi, Maidstone."

In addition to the above he made several exhibitions of interest. His final appearance was on November 3rd last, when he exhibited a curious jar, like an amphora, which was stated to be of medieval or Spanish workmanship.

He was elected a Member of the Council on November 16th, 1892, and retained office until his decease at the age of eighty years.

On the day of his death, his niece, Miss Cave-Browne, of Girton, was declared equal with the fifth wrangler in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.

He was interred at Detling. The Council feel that they have lost in him one who was imbued with the true scientific spirit, a genuine lover of archæology, and a firm friend and supporter of all the objects and interests of the Association.

Antiquarian Intelligence.

A Book about Bells. By the REV. GEO. S. TYACK, B.A., author of Historic Dress of the Clergy, The Cross in Ritual, Architecture, and Art,

tion to this work, which is the result of much study on the part of the author, who is favourably known for his valuable volumes dealing with

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