Proceedings of the Association. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 1898. C. H. COMPTON, Esq., V.-P., IN THE CHAIR. The following members were duly elected :— Rev. A. G. St. John Mildmay, Sculthorpe Rectory, Fakenham, M. L. Ferrar, Esq., Little Gidding, Ealing, W. Miss Collette, Marlborough Place, Brighton. John Bruce, Esq., F.S. A. Scot., Inverallen, Helensburgh, N.B. As Honorary Corresponding Member : W. L. Donnelly, Esq., Milton, Bowling, Dumbartonshire, N.B. Thanks were ordered by the Council to be returned to the respective donors of the following presents for the library :— To the Society, for "Annual Report of the American Historical Association," vols, i and ii, 1896. for "Smithsonian Institution Miscellaneous Collections," vol. xl, 1898. Smithsonian Institution, for "Report of the U.S. National Museum," 1895. for "Catalogue of Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast," by E. S. Holden, 1898. for "Origin and Bibliography of the Metallic Society, for "Annales de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles," for "Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de la Morinie," etc., 1896. for "Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester Archæological Society," vol. xx, pt. 11, 1896-7. British Record Society for "Bristol and Gloucester Records and Catalogue." To the Society, for "Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society," vol. vii, pt. 1. for "Journal of the Royal Archæological Institute," vol. v, N.S., Nos. 2 and 3, 1898. for "Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland," vol. viii, pts. II. and III, 1898. for "Journal of the Cambrian Archæological Association," July, 1896. for "Magazine of the Wiltshire Archæological Society,' June, 1898. for "Warkworth Parish Registers," published by the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, 1898. Author for "History of the Horn-book," by A. W. Tuer, Esq., vols. i and ii, 1896. for "Excavations in Cranbourne Chase," by General Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S., Impl. 4to, vol. iv, 1898. for "Ancient and Modern Dene-Holes and their Makers," by Chas. Dawson, Esq., 1898. Representatives of the Author for "Sutton Valence and East Sutton," by the late Rev. J. Cave-Browne, 1898. Many objects of medieval religious art were exhibited by Mr. Andrew Oliver, consisting of several crucifixes and one processional cross with reliquary, also four paxes, an ivory figure of St. Michael and the Dragon, of Spanish workmanship, and a figure of our Lord with moveable head of ivory; this also is Spanish of the sixteenth century. The hands and feet are lost; they were doubtless also of ivory. The most interesting exhibit was a hanging lamp of rough terra-cotta in the form of a fish, of early-Christian date. Mr. Patrick, Hon. Sec., reported the discovery early last month, at Paul's Wharf, Upper Thames Street, of a portion of an ancient wall, four or five feet in height, composed of massive random-built Kentish ragstone resting on a grille of squared timber. The wall, apparently, had no squared face; it was found at a depth of twelve or thirteen feet below the present ground line in the work of excavation for new buildings. The Rev. H. J. D. Astley reported further discoveries at Dumbarton, where the crannog was recently found, as described in the Athenæum and the Journal of the Association, from which it appears that the place where the canoe was unearthed was actually a dock; a curious ladder was here found, the rungs of which were cut out of the solid wood. All the relics have been placed in the Museum at Glasgow. They appear to belong to the Neolithic age, no metal of any kind being discovered, the objects being of bone, stag horn, jet, chert, and cannel coal; some querns were also found. The first paper of the evening was by Mr. Cæsar Caine, the subject being: "Our Cities Sketched Five Hundred Years Ago," and was read by Mr. Astley in the absence of the author. This paper is published herewith, pp. 319-321. Mr. Patrick exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. T. Irvine, some very carefully measured drawings of the beautiful seventeenth-century oak pulpit which, until recently, adorned the church of Yaxley, Hunts. Yaxley Church was visited by the Association during the recent Congress, and many of the members were sorry to see the several parts of this fine piece of wood carving, which was scarcely injured, thrown down, and lying on the floor at the west end of the nave, in order to give place to a brand-new pulpit in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee. The date of the pulpit is 1631. These Notes, with Mr. Irvine's drawings, are subjoined. DRAWINGS OF THE ABOLISHED PULPIT, YAXLEY CHURCH, HUNTS. When the late Congress visited Yaxley Church, its members were grieved to see the parts of a fine old oak pulpit thrown down into Plan of Old Perpendicular Pulpit. the west end of the south aisle of nave. This, though in excellent state, and scarcely anywhere damaged, had now given place to a new modern one! |
