"ANTIQUIT.A.TES SEU HISTORIARUM RELIQUI1E BUNT TANQUAM TABUL1E
NAUFRAGII j CUM, DEFICIENTE ET FERE SUBMERSA RERUM MEMORIA,
NIHILOMINUS ROMINES INDUBTRII ET SAGACEB, PERTINACI QUA.DAM ET
SCRUPULOSA DILIGENTIA, EX GENEALOGIIS, Jl'ASTIS, TITULIS, MONUMENTIS,
NUM.ISlliATIBUS, NOMINIBUS PROPRIIS ET STYLIS, VEJIBORUM ETYMOLOGIIS,
PROVERBIIS, TRADITIONIBUS, ARCHIVIS, ET INSTRU'MENTIS, TAM PUBLICIS
QUAM PRIVATIS, HISTORTARUM FRAGMlllNTIS, LIBRORUM NEOTIQUAM HISTORI·
CORUM LOCIS DISPERSIS,-EX: HIS, INQUAllf, OMNIBUS VEL ALIQUIBUS,
NONNULI,A A TEMPOlUS DILUVIO ERIJ.>IUNT ET CONSERVANT. RES SANE
OPEROBA, SED MORTALIBUS GRATA ET CUM REVERENTU QUA.DAM CON•
JUNOTA."
"ANTIQUITIES, OR REMNANTS OF HISTORY, ARE, AS WAS SAID, TANQUAM
TABUL./E NAUFltAGil j WHEN INDUSTRIOUS PEltSONS, BY AN Im.ACT AN()
SCRUPULOUS DILIGENCE AND OBSEil.VA'fION, OUT OF MONUMEN'l'H, NAM1,:s,
WORDS, PltOVImns, TRADITIONS, PRIVA'l'N RECOltnB AND l,:Yll)ENC!sfl, l•'RAh:ict.
J. BOARD, EsQ. Wl'.stei•ha,,,n.
SOCIETIES IN UNION.
Ftn' lntercl1ange o/ Puolications, et<:.
The Society of Antiquaries.
The Royal .Archreological Institute of Great Britain.
The British Ai·cbreological Association. '
The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
The Architectural Museum, 18 Tufton Street, Westminster.
The Numismatic Society.
The London and Middlesex Archreological Society.
The Historic Society of Cheshire and Lancashire.
The Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland .Archreological Society.
The Lincoln Diocesan .Architectural Society.
The Norfolk and Norwich Archooological Society.
The Suffolk Institute of Archreology.
The Surrey Archreological Society.
The Sussex Arcbreological Society.
The Wiltshire Archreological and Natural History Society.
The Somersetshire .Archooological and Natural History Society.
Societe .Archeologique de Dunkerque.
The Society of Antiquaries, Normandy.
The Society of Antiquaries, Picardy.
The Society of Antiquaries, Poitiers.
The Abbeville Society of Emulation.
The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archooological Society (Rev. W. Ba7,eley,
Matson Rectory, Gloucester).
The Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Rev, S. S. Lewis, Corpus Christi College).
The Powysland Club, Morris C. Jones, Esq., Abercromby Square, Liverpool,
Societa Romana d,i St(Jria Patria.
THE
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, 1878-80.
AT the Annual Meeting held at Bromley, on July 31st and
August 1st, 1878, the programme, printed in Vol. XII., pp. xliii.,
xliv., was satisfactorily carried out. The papers read during the
two days are, £or the most part, printed in the present volume.
Tim COUNCIL met on Sept. 25th, 1878, at Canterbury, in the
Library of the Dean and Chapter ; seven members were present,
aud the Dean of Canterbury presided.
Trr.A.NKS were voted to E.A.RL SYDNEY for presiding at the annual
dinner at Bromley, on July 31st; and to the Earl and Cou11tess
Sydney fo1· the very graceful hospitality with which they received
the Society at Frognal upon the same day, when they entertained
the Members at luncheon in a tent on the lawn, and conducted
them through the rooms of the Mansion.
To Dr. and Mrs. Broom for admitting the Society, on August
1st, to inspect the ancient portions of their house, Orpington Priory,
which was in medireval times the house of the Rector 0£ Orpington.
The members much appreciated Dr. Broom's kindness in permitting
them to see his fine collection of china, and the tapestry hangings
in his drawing-room. In the handsome Tudor Hall 0£ the house,
refreshments were hospitably served, for which, also, the Council
voted their thanks to Dr. and Mrs. Broom.
For the very generous hospitality 0£ Sir John and Lady
Lubbock, who entertained the Society at luncheon on the 1st of
August, in tents upon the lawn, at High Elms, the thanks of the
Council were likewise voted. Sil- John and Lady Lubbock kindly
explained the contents 0£ Sir John's Museum, and the members
were permitted to see the glass hives 0£ ant~ in his study.
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To Colonel and Mrs. Farnaby Lennard, thanks were voted £or
admitting them to inspect Wickham Court, on August 1st, when
Mrs. Lennard kindly entertained the Members at tea on the lawn.
Thanks, £or much b.elp in preparing for the Meeting, were
voted to Mr. Geo. Warde Norman, Dr. Beeby, Mr. Cecil Brent,
Mr. Acton, Mr. Ilott; and Mr. Archibald Hamilton.
For Papers read during the Meeting, thanks were voted·to Mr.
Roach Smith, Mr. G. B. W ollaston, Mr. Flinders Petrie, D;r.
Beeby, Rev. F. H. Murray, Colonel Lennard, and Mr. F. C. J.
Spurrell.
To Mr. Spurrell and to ~- George Payne thanks were
accorded £or superintending the carriage arrangements during July
31st and August 1st.
To the Bromley Loca,l Board for use of their Board Room ; and
to Mr. Stanford, of Oharing Cross, £or a supply of maps of Bromley
and its neighbourhood, thanks were likewise voted.
RoMNEY :M:A.:asn was selected as the locality to be visited at the
Annual Meeting in 1879.
James Edward Hall, Esq., was elected a Member of the Council.
Seven gentlemen were elected Members of the Society.
On Friday, Dec. 20th, 1878, the Council met at the Society's
rooms in Maidstone ; :6.ve Members attended, and the Earl Amherst
presided.
Fifteen gentlemen were elected Members of the Society.
On Wednesday, March 26th, 1~79, the Council met at the
Deanery, in Canterbury. Ten Members attended, and the Earl
Amherst presided.
Eleven gentlemen were elected Members 0£ the Society. The
Societa Romana di Storia Patria was received into association for
exchange 0£ publications.
The following letters were read and discussed,-
No. I.
Deanery, Canterbury,
November 26th, 1877.
My dear Canon,
The Chapter, at this our .first day of Audit, both give pemrlssion, with
plea.sure, to your request to have the frescoes ·in St. John's (7) Chapel copied
for publication in the Arclu;eolo9ia OM1,tiam.a; and promise aid, to the extent
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at least of £20, on condition that a competent artist be employed, and that the
drawings, after use for the A.1·ck. Calnt., be suspended in the Cathedral Library,
and entrusted thereby to us for preservation. We will also give all other aid in
the way of scaffolding, &c.
Please let me know when you have chosen your artist.
Yours ever,
R. PAYNE SM.ITH.
Rev. CA.NON SCOTT ROBERTSON.
No. II.
8 Adelphi Tcn·acc, London, W.C.,
June 25th, 1878.
Dear Sir,
I respectfully forward you specimens of the Ca.nterbm·y paintings. None
of the subjects are completely finished-two you will sec arc in an advanced
state ; two more in pencil outline, ready for the colour ; the remaining four arc
partly in outline.*
I have looked through my items of expenditure, which amount to :£48 11s. lld.,
u11 to the present date.
Although I expressed to you, the other day, that I thought the expense
1vould for exceed tl1c originally suggested cost of £65, on examining the
account I find the cost is not so much as I expected. Although they are copied
the real size, aud frw-si-m-ilc, on the spot, yet I do not no,v think the original
suggested cost ,vill he far exceeded,
I need hardly say the work has been done thoroughly carefully, and in
every way with the object of preserving faithful copies of these unique
paintings, as they appeared at the time.
The fixing of the plaster is successful (so far), and in about three weeks I
shall again be able to continue the colouring. I haye every hope that the work,
when completed, will give every satisfaction.
I have the honour to be,
Yours respectfully,
JAMES NEALE.
To the Rev. CANON SCOTT Ron:&RTSON.
My dear Sir,
No. III.
S .A.delphi Ten·acc, London, W.C.,
March 13th, 1879.
[Rccoived 11ta1·olt I 9tlL.-W. A. S. R.]
I have carefully considered the subject of the publication of the drawings
of the Chapel of St. Gabriel. I entered upon the work with a very sanguine
estimate as to the time it would take, and have found the task seeming to grow
larger as I progressed with it. I consider that on the very moderate rate of
remuneration at first contemplated, in round numbers :£.200 should be due to me
* Thus Eight Drawings were in progress when this letter was written.W.
A. S. R.
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for my personal labour, lodgings, and travelling expenses, up to the present
time. SEVEN DRAWINGS ARE NOW li'IT TO BE PUT INTO THE HANDS OF THE
LITHOGRAPHER. FOR ll.El'RODUCTION. A.s I understand the intention of the
Council of the Kent Society, they wish to pay a very liberal proportion of the
cost of making the fac-simi'lc of the paintings, but would probably consider the
payment of the £200 more than I ought to ask from them.
I have wished to hit on some arraDgement which would give the Council
and the Subscribers of the Kent Society no cause to complain of me, but rather
the reverse, and suggest the following:-'· The Naming of St, John" to be
reproduced in chromo-lithography (measuring about 14 inches by 7¾ inches) in
a really superior style. The six other drawings, viz., I, The Annunciation to
Zacharias ; 2, Our Saviour ; 3, Two Angels; 4, Single Angel ; 5, Angel ,vith
Eyes (standing on wheel); 6, Angels of the Seven Churches ; to be reproduced
by the autotype process, Eleven hundred copies of each of these seven
drawings to oe supplied by me to the Kent Society. All copyright and the
originals to remain with me, the Kent Society having no right to make or
permit any further reproduction. I should, however, be happy to set aside
stones used in a chromo-lithographic reproduction of the fellow subject to "The
Naming of St. John," namely," The Annunciation to Zacharias,'' and superin·
tend the reproduction of ll00 copies next year or the year after.· If this
arrangement is agreed to, I propose that the Kent Society should pay me £228
at once, and a further sum of £65 when the second chroma is produced. The
advantage of this arrangement will be that the whole scheme of the paintings
will be made quite clear at once to the subscribers of the Kent Society-the
autotypes being of a good scale and taken direct from the original drawings.
The real character of the work will be shewn by the chromo-lithograph, which
,vill be as good as it can be made-in fact, a work of art of considerable
beauty. No reproduction of the dra,vings to a smaller scale will do them fair
justice, or make so interesting a contribution to the traD,Sactiona as that whioh
I propose.
You have helped me and encouraged me so kindly all along in this rather
tedious business, that I do not think I need say any more or put alternative
schemes before you. You will, I feel sure, be disposed to do all you can to fall
in with my wishes, especially as they do not run counter to what I unde1·stand
to be the real wishes of your Council.
My dear Sir,
No. IV.
I am, yours faithfully,
JAMES NEALE,
8 Adelphi Terrace, London, W.C.,
• March 24th, 1879.
In my letter of March 17th, I stated " I propose that the Kent Society
should pay me £228 at once.'' I intended by this that they should pay me the
balance yet unpaid of that amount, namely £179 9s, 0d. I do not think this at
~11 ~air, but I have no wish to be, or even to seem, exacting as to the
immediate payment of the whole amount; any agreed on fair balance may be
left until the Society can be supplied with the copies, according to the arrange•
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ment, so as to hold me up to the mark in looking after the lithographer. No
doubt the Society of .Antiquaries and the Dean and Chapter will pay their contributions
over to me at an early date. I hope indeed to get the amounts that
were talked about increased if they are to come to me directly thus, in addition
to the £228 from the Kent Society. Of course I ought not to grumble at being
entrusted with wo1·k in which I take a special pleasure, even if, at the end of all
the receipts, the money payment amounts only to a very modest daily
honorarium.
It has always been understood that the drawings would be deposited with
the Dean and Chapter, and would in fnct become their property. I have
worked throughout on this uudcr1
