Front matter, Volume 28

􀀎r􀀏hreologia atantiana. '· ANTIQUI'fATBS SEU HISTOUTAUUM UELIQUI.M 8UN'l' 'l'ANQUAM 'l'AllUL.iE NAUF!lAGII; CUM, DEFICIENTE E'l' FlmE sunr.rnnsA HEltUM MEMORIA, NIHILOMINUS IIOMINES INDUSTRII ET SAGACES, Plm'1'IN ACI QUAD.AM ET SCRUPULOSA DILJGEN'£IA, EX GENEALOGIIS, FASTIS, TI'£ULIS, MONUMEN'J'JR, NUMISMA'f!BUS, NOMINIRUS PROPRTJS Wl' s·rYLrn, VRRDORlJM Wl'YMOLOOJJS, PltOVJmBIIS, 'l'RATHTIONIHUS, ARCHIVfS, ]i;•r INSTIWMENTIS, 'i'AM PUl\LlCIS QUAM PRl VATIS, HISTORTAIWM FRAGMI£NTIS, LJBRORUlli NEUTIQUAM HIS'l'ORI· COIWM LOClS DISPERSJS,-EX HIS, INQUAllf, OMNIIlUS VEL AT,!QUIBUS, NONNULLA A TEMPORTS DILUVIO ERIPIUN'l' E'l' CONSBRVANT. m,s SAN];; OPEROSA, SED MOR'l'ALIBUS GRATA ET CUM REVEREN'l'IA QUADAM CONJUNC'l'A." "ANTIQUITIES, on REMNANTS OF HIS'l'ORY, ARE, AS WAS SAID, '.l'ANQU.AM 'l'ABUI,.iE NAUFRAOTI j wr11rn INDUS'l'RIOUS PERSONS, JJY AN EXAC'r AND SCRUPULOUS DILlGENC!s AN!) ous1mVA·rroN, OU'l' 01•' MONUMJrn'l'S, NAMgs, WOlWS, PltOvrurns. 'l'ltA.DI'l'[ONS, l'RTVATE ltECO!tDS AND J,;VlDENCES, FRAGMENTS Ok' s·roetrns, PASSAGES o􀇤· DOOICS 'l'HA'l' CONCERN NO'r S'l'ORY, AND 'fHE LTICI•:, 00 SAVE AND RECOVER SO􀇥IEWHA'l', l•'ROll TUE DEJ,UGE 01•' ·1·1ME."-.ArlNml'1•1111·11t 1!f Lrar11i'llg, ii. 􀀒rrh1rolngia ittingbom:ne ll!li!lh:frt. • . • . • . . . 8ittingbmwn.c. «enlerben il!li!ltrict. J. ELLIS MACE, ESQ. • • • • • • • • 1'enterdresident, to hold its Mc􀇸tings at other places within the county; and to alter the dnys of Meeting, or to omit a Quarterly Meeting if it shall he found convenient. 4. The Oou11cil shall appoint one of their Members to be the Hon. Treasurer. His duty shall be to keep an account of all Subscriptions ancl other Receipts and Payments for the Society, nnd on the 31 st December in every year to prepare the Balnnce Sheet for the past year, anrl, nfter it hos been approved by the Auditors, to lay ii before the next Quarterly Meeting of the Council, accompanied by a Statement of all Subscriptions, etc., in nrrear and due to the Society, anen.rmau, lwv. Cauou, M.A., 'l'he Precinct, ltochester. Pearman, ltev. M. '!'., M.A.., !wade Vicarage, Sit,tiugbourne. Pearne, '.l!homas, Esq., Carmel Cottage, Loose, Maidstone. Peckham, 'l'hornas Gilbert, Js, H,ev. L. R., 1'LA,, Oriel College, Oxford. Phillipt1, A. Houston, Esq., Chestnut House, 'l'enterden. Phillips, ll.ev. E. E., M.A., llredhurst Vicar1􀍥ge, Clmth1un. Philpott, S. G. P., Esq., 'l'tiunavi􀍦lla, Ellington R,ottd, lfamsg,tte. Pittook, Dr., Winton, Whitslable ltot􀍧d, C,mterlmry. Pleadwell, W. G., Esq., 81 Castell11iu Road, Muidit H;ill, w. Pledge, 'fhomas, Esq., Newuh11,m Court, Boxley, M11,1dstoue. Plowden, Miss, 2 Albiou Villas, l􀍨olkestone. Pole, Rev. H., M.A., 8 Marshum Street, Muidstone. Poole, M. J., Esq., J.P., 54, Queen Street, lta.msgu.te. * Porter, 1-Iorace, .Esq., 16 Russell Squnro, London, w.c. *Powell, C. Watson, Esq., D.L., J.P.) Ho11. Ti•ea,siwer, SpeldhUl'st, 'l'unbridge Wells. Powell-Cotton, Major P. H. G., Quex Park, llirchingtou. Prankerd, Rev. Johu, 8 Border Crescent, Sydenham. Pratt, 'l'ho Lady :Prances, 'l'ho Grove, Se,􀍩l, Sevenoaks. ... XXVlll KEN1' ARCH.AWLOGICAL SOCIE1'Y. Prentis, Charles, Esq., Posiers, Borden, Sittingbourne. Prentis, Henry, Esq., Rhoad House, Sittingbourne. l"re:;r;ott, l!'. "\V., Esq., Stroud Street, Dover. Preston, J. Harvey, Esq., 'l'he Haven, Eliot Vale, mackheath, s.E. Probyu, Lieut.-Colonel Clifford, 55 Grosvenor Street, w. *Pros􀋬er, W. ll., Esq., Sittingbourne Road, Maidstone. Public Record Offiee (care of Messrs. Wyman and Sons, 11etter Lane, n.c.). H,addilfe, A., Esq., Lowther, East Cliff, Ramsgate. lfaduor, 'l'he Earl of (per L. G. A. Collins, Esq., Manor Office, Folkestone). ltammell, Rev. W. H., M.A., Boughton Bleirn, 11avcrsbam. Ramsgate Free Librnry, R,amsgatc. Raven, ll.oger Abbot, E􀃣q., B.A., Barfield House, Broadstairs. Rawes, Mrs., 10 Hyde Park Mansions(" J" 11lat), Marylebone lwad, N.W. *Rayden, Arthur R., Esq., 35 Cauibridge Rond, llromley, Keut. Reeve, lt. Dalby, Esq., 7 Cer,il Square, :Margate. lteid, James, Esq., 12 Lower Bridge Street, Canterbury. H,eid, Captain S. G., H,.N., 'l'he Elms, Y,􀋭lding. Rendall, l-tev. Seymour Henry, M:.A., 'l'he Vicarage, "\'\Tye. *H,iohurdson, B. l'. lloys, E.sq., Deep Deno, 1'orriugton Park, North Pinchley, N.W. Richardson, "\Valter H., Esq., ltookwood. Eltham. H,oberts,Co\011e\ Sir Howland, B11rb., 31 Argyll ltoad, Kensington, w. ltobertson, John C., Esq., Prior's, Keston, Bcckeuham. Robert.•on, Mrs. Scott, Urnymead Honse, l:Iighview ltoasher, deceased." It was resolved: "That Dr. T. Joyce of Cranbrook be electPd Hon. Local Secretary £or the Cranbrook district in the place of Mr. S. Cresswell, resigned." It was agreed thn.t the next annual meeting of the Society should be held at Canterbury. 'l'he Dean of Canterbury, the Archdeacon of Canterbury, the Mayor of Canterbury, Mr. H. Mapleton Chapman, and the Hon. Secretary were appointed a sub-committee to arrange the details of the meeting. A vote of thanks was accorded to the Rev. C. E. Woodruff for his editorship of Vol. XXVII. of A.rclueologia Oantia11a, lately published. The following were elected Ordinary Members: the Bishop of Rocl1ester (Dr. Harmer), the Dean of Canterbury (Dr. Wace), Vv. Bruce Bannerman, F.S.A., J. Watkinson, Henry S. Bell, Charles R. Ho,iles, Sir W. Martin Conway, and El·nest W. White. PRO'CEEDlNGS, }!>be. liJ.i It was resolved: "That instructions be given to the Local Secretaries that when paying money into the Bank􀆦 to the account of the Society they hand in therewith a list of the names of the members whose subscriptions are then paid in, with a request that such names be entered in the pass-books." March 8th, 1906.-The Council met at the Society's rooms, Maidstone. Thirteen members present, Lord Northbourne in the chair. It was resolved: "'.rhat the Society should become an annual subscriber to the Harleian Society.'' A letter from the British School at Rome was read, and it was resolved that the School should be iuvited to present its publications to the Society in return for a complete series of A1·clu.eolo9ia Oantiana. It was a.greed that the Society should buy Mr. Cowper's last three boob, for the Library. On the motion of Lord Northbourne, seconded by Rev. G. M. Livett, the Rev. Ca.non 1'ancock, D.D., was unanimously elected a member of the Council, vice the Hon. R. Marsham-Townshend, resigned. A question of the day of the quartedy meeting8, adjourned from the previous meeting, was discussed, and it Wl.1.8 decided not to make any change. It was moved, se􀆧onded, and carried : " That the Annual Meeting at Canterbury take place on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th.'' The Hon. Secretary presented a programme of the meeting, which was read aud considered. On the proposal of the Rev. W. Gardner-Waterman, 8econded by Mr. Cooke, Mr. S. ·w. Kershaw, Librarian at Lambeth, was unanimously elected an Honorary Member of the Society. The following were elected Ordinary Members: Charles Killick, T. A. Tait, Captain Fane Lambarde, William C. Lewis, Dr. Woodman, A. G. Murray, George Marsham, Canon Maplesden, Herbert Nicholson, Messrs. Sherratt and Hughes, M. W. Watson, David Goudie Simpson, David Chisholm Simpson, the Rev. Dr. Springett, the Rev ..T . S. ff. Chamberlaine. Ou the motion of Mr. R. Cooke, seconded by the Rev. A ..J . Pearman, Mr. George Marsham, as Chairman of the Kent County Council, was elected a Vice-President. liv PROCEEDINGS, 1906. May 10th, 1906.-A special meeting of the Council was held this day at the Society's rooms, Maidstone. Nine members present, Mr. G. M. Arnold in the chair. It wM reported that the date of the Canterbury meeting as fixed at the last meeting of the Council was the date of the Convocation of Canterbury ; and it was resolved: "That tl1e date of the Auuual Meeting be altered to July 17th and two following days." June 14th, 1906.-The Council met in London at the Coburg Hotel. Nineteen members present, Lord Northbourne in the chair. 1'he programme of the Canterbury meeting was read and, with some alterations, approved. The Hon. Secretary read a draft of the report of the Council to be presented at the General Meeting. With additions referring to the possibility of holding an evening meeting in the winter months ano oxtotllled; and by way of example said ihnt Mr. Duncan had himllolf collected photographs of dated c:mmplell of ard1itecturo in Ktmt, t.ho publication of which would bo vnlunble to stttdt> n(s. lfo propo􀊥Pd that !l committee be formed !,o corniidor the posHihility of 1•xtondi11g tho scope of the ::locioty's publications. Tlw proposnl rtit•11ivo1l support from members present, but was \I ithdrnwn 011 the Bditor's representation of the difficulty of carrying on his work under such conditions. The chnirmnn proposed that a grant 0£ £100 ehould be made to the trustees of the St. Augustine's Abbey Fund for the purposes of excavation. Mr. Chapman explained the position of the fund, and it was resolved : "That a grant of £100 be made to the St. Augu:stine's Abbey Excavation Fund, to be paid in two yearly instalments of £50 each, provided an additional sum of £600 be contributed by the recipients for completing the excavation of the intirma.ry, the dormitory, and the southern transept." The H1l11. tkcretary then read a minute of the meeting at Canterbury n·forring to the holding of evening meetings during the winter months, and Mr. Woodruff moved that a meeting be held at :'-laidstone in the coming winter, and a small committee be formed to ctirry out. the arrangements. Mr. Monckton seconded. The difficulty of selecting a convenient centre wns discussed, and London was suggested. It was finally resolved (by six votes to three) that the consideration of the matter be adjourned till the next meeting of the Council. It was resolved: "That Tonbridge be the place of the next Annunl l\Ieetiug." It was agreed that Major-General White should be asked to nd as Lot·1il Secretary for the 1'oubridge district vice Mr. Wingate, rt•si􀊦1w1l. Tht' at•cnunts of the Canterbury Annual Meeting were presented :rnd pnssed.. tht' Rev. C. E. ·w ood1·u:ff being authorized to pay £J 5s. in St.'ttlement of a bill presented by Mr. Iggulsden, the prnprit>lln· of the Ashford paper, for a transcript of his shorthand thltes tlf the Canterbury meeting. :\ it,ttrr w:1s read fr1nn i\Iiss Austin asking for a. subscription ttnrnrds the rep:iirs of Bl\rfrestone Church. The Hon. Secretary w:is diredod to placo the subject of grants to churches on the agt•udn. tlf the lll'Xt meeting. PROCEEDINGS, l!l0o. lvii lln tho motion of the d1airmnu n voto of tlrnn loi Wl1.l{ act·orrlC'd lo Mr. II. Mapleto11 Chapnrn.n for hiH 11ervicPH 011 tho Ol'CnKion of thl' late Annual Oeneral Meeting 1Lt Canterbury, 1111d for his kin(! hospitality to the members. VoteR of tha11l1S were aliw accorded to the 1>ea11 of Cnntcrhury, the Mayor of Cantc-rbury, the clergy of the vnriouK churchcH vi::1ik1l, nnd Ur. Bailey for hi8 gift of Paley's Gothic .111oldin.'J8 and Byzantine A.rcliitecture. The loan of the wood-block of the illustration on page 8 of Vol. XII. of Arch. Cant. was granted to the Editor of the Victorian Counf.y Historg. It was decided to place £200 at the Capital and Counties Bauk on deposit. The following were elede1I Ordinary Members: A. E. Ward, Miss M. Waterfield, and the Woolwich Public Library. December 13th, 1D0G.-'l'he Council met in the Treasury of Canterbury Cathedral. Eleven members present, L\fr. F. J!'. Giraud iu the chair. Mr. Richard Cooke presented the report of the sub-('ommittee appointed to consider the question of repairs to the archway adjoining the Old Palace at Maidstone. The report wat1 adopted. With regard to the amount to be raised for completing the excavations at St. Augustine's Abbey, it was found that tho Pstima.te of £700 as given at the last Council meeting wat1 too high, and as the amount was now e8timated at from £!350 to £400, it was resolved: "That £50 be granted to the Trm!tce11 of the St. Augustine's Excavation Fund, payable at the commencement of the work next spring." It was suggested that the Hon. Secretary, in writing to inform the trustees of this grant, should 8.l!k them to formulate some scheme of the work proposed t-0 be <'arried out next year for the information of the Society. It was decided that the question of holding a general meeting in the evening in the course of the winter came within Rule 19 of the Society's Rules. The Council would be prepared to consider the calling of such a meeting should the neres11ity appear to arise. The following resolution was propotINGS, 1906. ancl their friends for furthering the objects of the Society." The Hon. Secretary was directed to inform the Local Secretaries that the Council would be prepared to ddray rensonable expenses, an estimate of such expenses to be sent by the Local Secretaries to the Hon. Se􀉖retary, and submitted by him to the Council for corn;iderntion at th􀉗 quarterly meetings. 'l'he question of grauts to churches in general and to Barfre.stone in particular evoked con:;iclerable difference of opinion, and it was agreed to continue the discu::ision at the uext meeting, a motion for granting a sum to Barfrestone to be placed on the agenda paper. An opinion was expressecl t.hat, in view of the recent reception of the Society at Canterbury Cathedral, and the U.Ele of the 'l,reasury by the Council for its meetings at Canterbury, it would be a gracious act if the Society made a special grant to wards the repairs of the Bell Jfony 'l'ower, and on the motion of Mr. Chapman it was agreed that the proposal should be placed 011 the agenda paper of the next meeting. 'l'he Hon. Secretary reported the Hev. C. E. Woodruff's resignation of his position as !Lmorat'Y Editor of the Society. 'l'he Council, realizing that iVlr. Woodruff's resignation was final, accepted it with an expression of great regret; ,1,nd the Chairman moved the following resolutiou, which was carried uuanirnously: "'l'hat the bei;(; thauks of the Society be uccordce of Glastonbury Abbey was not entertained. Permission was granted to Mr. Emery Walker to publish photographic reproductions of the plates on pp. 152 and 153, Vol. VII., of Archa1• of £213, all of which was then twelve months overdue, and this arrear it will be remembered has act:rued since the inrestigation iuto the accounts at the time of Mr. Payne's retirement from the Secretaryship in 1903-4, when, in addition to a considerable amount found to be in his hands and afterwards accounted for, no less than £254 10s. had to be written off as bad and irrecoverable. (See account in Vol. XXVII., p. xxxiv.) "In order to put matters on a better footing and to remedy the present system, which shews a very insufficient coutrol over the collection of the subscriptions, there appears to be two courses open :-(1) to endeavour to enforce the present rules more strictly, and if considered desirable to strengthen them; or (2) to appoint a paid collector. "With regard to the first alternative, it is to be noted that under the rules as they stood prior to 1903 the regulations as to Annual Subscriptions were these: 'Rule 10.-(1) Each Ordinary Member shall pay an annual subscription of 10s. due in advance on the 1st Janua,ry in each year; (2) Every member shall be entitled to a copy of the Society's transactions, but none will be issued to any subscriber whose subscription is in nrrear; (3) 'l'he Council m11y remove from the list of subscribers the 11ame of any member whose subscriptiou is two years in arrear (subject to certain conditions).' " These provisions had not proved effectual, and in 1903 the following rule was added: ' Rule 4.-'l'he Council shall appoint one of their members to be the Hon. Treasurer. His duty shall be to keep an account of all subscriptions and other receipts and payments for the 8ociety, and on the 31st December in every year to prepare the Balance Sheet for the past year, and after it has been approved by t110 Auditors to lay it before the next Quarterly Meeting of the Council, accompanied by a statement of all subscriptions, etc., in arrear a11d due to the Society, and of all money clue from them.' "This new rule (4 ) was made a little before the termination of the late Hon. Secretary Mr. Payne's tenure of that office. Soon afterwards he retired, and our present Hon. Secretary was appoiated. The new rule has not been acted upon, for, although an Hon. Treasurer has been appointed, it is believed that he has never been invited to act; it may possibly be that he might now be willing to undertake the duties imposed by this rule, and we hp,v􀉤 nQw to a.scert4in how this may b􀉥. PROCEEDINGS, 1908. lxvii "The Committee are disposed to believe that, if an appeal were made to the Hon. Local Secretaries, or to those of them who are habitually in arrear, urging them to make their collections and returns promptly at the beginning of each year (as some of them already do), the difficulties now experienced would disappear. Each of the local Hon. Secretaries when appointed should be furnished with n full list of the names and address0s of members resident in his district, and the names and ad.dresses of members newly elected or coming to reside in his district should be communicated to him by the Hon. Secretary ; and each Local Secretary should be furnished with a convenient form of sclrndule or list, to be sent by him to the Hon. 'rreasurer or Hun. Secretary, shewing the nmount of the subscriptions received, and transmitted by him to the Bankers. ,Ve are informed, howevel', that some of the local Hon. Secretaries do not use this form, and thus confusion is caused, for it is ve1·y difficult in default of such a list to keep up the register of payments satisfactorily. " If the present system under the Hon. Treasurer or Hon. Secretary is continued it is obvious that he must insist on the prompter retum of the lists and transmission of the money, and must repent his applications until he succeeds in getting the returns. It may be, however, as the Committee feel, expecting a little too much from an honorary officer to take all this work upon himself. "Another suggestion which the Committee would make is that in any case the condition that no copy of the Society's Transaction.s be issued to a member whose subscription is in arrear (Hule 10) should be stt-ictly enforced. U 11fortunately an order was mado a few yearil ago directing that the volumes should be distributed by the Publishers in London. This should either be cancelled, or tlie Publishers should have definite instructions, and in good time, to prevent their delivering any volume to a subscriber whose subscrip• tion is in arrear. "An alternative system would be the appointment 0£ a pa.id official or collector, whose duties might be defined somewhat as follows (see separate Paper C*). This would involve an expense of about £5 per cent. on the amount of the Annual Subscription and Entrance Fees, and as the number of ordinary members is taken to be a little over 600 the commission or salary would amount to about £18 18s. a year. * The followiug is a pd1•i'.s of "Paper C," entitled "The duties of the Collector of Subscriptions":- 1-8. 'l'o keep thEI Regist.er of Members, the Members' (Card) Register, and the Cash Book always up to date. 4. To send out aunual subscription notices at the end of December by circular approved by the Finance Committee. 5, 6. 'l'o send second notices in February or Maroh to deraulwrs, and to repeat such no􀃒ices when necessary. 7. To send receipts for subsoriptions received. Query, how to deal with members paying direct to Bankers or not livin􀃓 in nny District. 8. When receipts nmount to £20 to remit the sum in hand to the Bankers (o,lteriin,tely), nn.d to send to the Houorary Secretary a list of such subsoribing C 2 lxvili PROCEEDINGS, 1908. "These are the alternative courses which tbe Council have to comider at their next meeting. "With regard to the finances of the Society generally, the accompan;ving analysis of the annual accounts has been made for three periods: (l) ten years from 1882 to 1891; (2) ten years, 1892 to 1901; and (3) five years, from 1902 to 1907. This will enable the Council to see clearly the average income and expenditure for each of these successive periods. It will then appear that the average annual amount of subscription, including entrance fees and life compositions (the accounts give no materiahi for separating these until H>03), and the total of all receipts for tbe three successive periods were:- For the ten years to 1891 " ,, five " " 1901 1907 Average Annual Subscription. £ s. d. 423 18 0 348 5 8 342 19 0 Total average Annual Receipts. £ s. cl. 461 0 0 392 0 0 401 0 0 "In like m:1,nner with regard to the expenditure, which was:- On A.rcl,,. Oant., average per yenr. Total average Annual Expenditure. Jl'or the ten years to 1891 £ s. d. 267 10 0 248 19 0 207 16 0 £ s. a. 410 0 0 400 0 0 431 13 0 ,, " five " ,, 1901 1907 "This shews that the total average expenditure for the last five years has been £HO per annum above the average actual receipts for those years, notwithstanding that the outlay on the production of the volumes of A.1·clueolo_qia Oantiana was considerably less than in former years. Some of these matters may require further investigation, and will be duly considered by the Committee and dealt with in a future report so far as may be necessary. "Dated this 10th of t-ieptember 1908. "Signed H. MA.PLETON Cl-rAJ>MAN. w. Ga.RONER-WATERMAN. A. A. ARNOLD." members, with notes of members deceased or having changed residence, and of circnhrs returned through Dead Letter Office. 9, 10. 'ro send supplemental reports of similar character to Honora,ry Secretary in time for March and June Meetings of the Council. l I. '11 0 seud list of defuu!ting members to Publishers before the issue of a new volume of Arck. Oant. 12, 18. General instructions as to duties under Honornry Secretary and as to preservation of pnpers and documents that come to hand. 14, 15. Salary or Commission to be paid by Council's cheque. Appointment to be determined by one month's notice. 16. To give a Pidelity Guarantee Assurance for (say) £2!>01 􀄓t t4e Society's 90.st1 for secqriqg mOIJe,rs an4 rePqrp Qf boo)!:s1 ej;(J, • PROCEEDINGS, 1908, lx.ix The Rev. C. E. Woodruff remarked that the increase in expenditure in the last fhe years was partly accounted for by exceptional grants, e.,r;., to the excarntions of St. Augustine's and the repairs of Canterbury Cathedral The Report was adopted, and the Hon. Secrefary was directed to write to the President, asking him to act 011 the Committee. A lettet· was read by the Chairman from Mr. Broad pointing out that the preseut mode of collecting subscriptious had the advantage of bringing the Hon. Local Secretaries into pe1·sonal relations with members. In view of the fact that the balance sheets had been prepared by professional auditors, it was agreed that the Hon. Secretary should submit them to the Honoral'y Auditors for signature p1·0 Jonna. The Rev. G. M. Livett asked that detailed accounts of the annual meetings for the last four years, with receipts for payments, be placed before the committee. Mr. Wilkie gave notice that he would propose at the next meeting that the finance committee be made a standing committee. The choice of the place of the next annual meeting was considered at length, and it was agreed that the Hon. Secretary should prepare and submit to the next Council meeting a programme with Farningham as centre. A letter from Mr. Abell, of Kennington, was read, criticising the progt·a1mue,, of the annual meetings, and suggesting tha.t less attention be devoted to churches, and more to old houses, earthworks, and similar objects. The vacancy on the Council, caused by the appointment of Mr. Livett as Hon. Editor, was filled by the unanimous election of Mr. A. H. Gardner of Folkestoue, on the motion of Mr. Chapman, seconded by the Rev. C. E. Woodruff. It was resolved to invite Mr. J. H. King to act as Hou. Local Secretary for the Gravesend district, in the place of Mr. G. M. Arnold, F.S.A., deceased. Votes of thanks were passed to the following gentlemen on the occasion of the Society's late visit to Ashford: The Rev. Canon Pearman, M.A., the l{ev. Canon Tindall, M.A., Mr. J. F. Welldou, Mr. Strouts, the Rev . .Alban Harrison, M.A., Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Dodd, Dr. Wilkes, the Rev. C. E. Woodruff, M.A., the Rev. G. M. Livett, l􀅴.S.A., and the Vicars of the various churches visited. A letter was read from the Rev. G. M. Livett aaking for the ..... lxx PROCEEDINGS, i908. Council's approval of his action in arranging, with the consent of the President and other Councillors, that Professor Baldwin Brown should have an opportunity, in the presence of Sir Martin Conway, 0£ photographing certain hand-specimens of Saxon antiquities for the purpose of iUustrating his professorial lectures, and reporting the presentation to the Society of the Professor's work on Saxon Antiquities, in two volumes, as a mark of the Professor's gratitude £or tl1e privilege. On the report of a letter received from Messrs. Brackett, with reference to their reproduction of one of the Society's illustrations, it was agreed that the publishers should be instructed to withhold the loan of the Society's wood-blocks except by the express sanction of the Council. The following were elected Ordinary Members : Bernard Arnold and H. Kennedy. A proposal made at the Annual Meeting, that volumes of A.rclueologia Oantiana should be offered as prizes to elementary sd1ools for essays on Kentish archreology, was considered, and it was decided that no action should be taken. Votes of thanks to the Rev. J. A. Boodle £or presiding and to Mr. A. A. Arnold for entertaining the Council to luncheon closed the meeting . .A.NNU.A.L REPORTS, 1906-1908. Annual Report, 1906.-Your Council have much pleasure in presenting their forty-ninth Annual Report in the old city of Canterbm·y after an interval of sixteen years .. Since your last Annual Meeting here the ruins of the Abbey Church of St. Augustine and some of the adjacent monastic buildings have been excavated, and on this occasion you will be given the opportunity of visiting not only these but further excavations on the site of St. Pancras Chapel. Your Society has contributed £55 towards the expenses of these researches, and your Council £eel sure that the members will be much interested in the result. Since your last visit, also, the old Museum has been removed to the present building, the old collection has been very largely added to and entirely rearranged, and the city now possesses a fine collection of Roman pottery, flint implements, and other interesting relics, fouu'Tound-plan specially prepared by Mr. Alfred J. Burrows, F.S.I. Smeeth was lucidly described by the Rector, the Rev. F. C. Timins, M.A. At Sellinge, Brabourne, and Brook the Incumbents, the Revs. H. Steveus, M.A., 'l'. S. Stack, M.A., and J. N. Arkell, M.A., delivered introductory ad