with an open carriage of much plainer workmanship, but with the same crest on the back of the body; and it is said the two were found concealed under a fagot-stack at Richardson in Winterbourn Basset, an old seat of the Baskervilles in Wiltshire, and removed to this place shortly after; probably at that time the new wheels were added, the others having been destroyed or taken off when the carriages were placed under the fagots. A gentleman here, to whom I applied for information, tells me his impression is that the carriages never were lost, but were covered up with fagots at Richardson for many years in order to preserve them.

"I intended to send the sketch some time since, but retained it in the hope that I might be able to name the original owner of the carriage, and relate its history; but, not having hitherto been able to ascertain anything beyond the little I have stated, I think it better to send it now.

"It is possible I may be taking the best means for recovering both its date and history by bringing the matter before the public. Some of the Fellows, too, may thus have brought to their memory other old vehicles perishing in out-of-the-way places, which it may be interesting to have figured before they are completely destroyed."

C. W. GOODWIN, Esq. communicated a memoir on three Coptic Papyri, and some other manuscripts which had been brought from the east by Stuart Glennie, Esq. This communication will be printed in the Archæologia.

Thanks were returned for these Communications.

Thursday, 21st May, 1863.

Sir JOHN P. BOILEAU, Bart. V.P. in the Chair..

The following Presents were announced, and Thanks ordered to be returned to the Donors :-

From the Editor, J. G. Nichols, Esq., F.S.A.-The Herald and Genealogist. Part 4, March. 8vo. London, 1863.

From the Zoological Society of London:

[Completing the volume

1. Their Proceedings. Part 3, June-December. for 1861.] And Parts 1, 2, and 3. January-December. [Completing the volume for 1862.] 8vo. London.

2. Their Transactions. Vol. 4, Part 7, completing Vol. 4, and Vol. 5, Parts 1 and 2. 4to. London, 1862-63.

From the Royal Institution of Great Britain.-Their Proceedings. Vol. 4, Part 1, No. 37. 8vo. London, 1863.

From the Publishers, Messrs. Parker.-Gleanings from Westminster Abbey. By George Gilbert Scott, R.A., F.S.A. Second edition, considerably enlarged.

8vo. London and Oxford, 1863.

From the Camden Society :

1. Wills from Doctors' Commons: a Selection from the Wills of Eminent Persons proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1495-1695. Edited by John Gough Nichols and John Bruce. 4to, London, 1863.

2. Trevelyan Papers. Part 2. A.D. 1446-1643. Edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq. 4to, London, 1863.

This being one of the ordinary meetings fixed by the Council for a ballot for the election of Fellows, no papers were read.

The Ballot opened at a quarter to nine, and closed at ten, when the following Candidates were declared to be duly elected:Talbot Bury, Esq.

T. Bigoe Williams, Esq.
Alfred White, Esq.

Frederic William Burton, Esq.

Thursday, June 4th, 1863.

OCTAVIUS MORGAN, Esq. M.P. V.P. in the Chair.

The following Presents were announced, and Thanks ordered to be returned to the Donors:

From the Author.-Address of Dr. Lee on the Presentation of the Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society to F. W. A. Argelander, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Bonn. 1863, February 13. 8vo.

From the Editor, Mrs. Mary A. Everett Green.-Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II. 1664-1665. Preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office. 8vo. London, 1863.

From the Author.-On Japanese Art: a Discourse delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, May 1, 1863, by John Leighton, F.S.A. London: privately printed (50 copies only). Folio.

From the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archæological Society.-Their Proceedings and Papers. Vol. 4. New series, January. 8vo. Dublin, 1863.

From the Editor, Samuel Tymms, Esq., F.S.A.-The East-Anglian Notes and Queries. Vol. I. No. 28, June. 8vo.

From the Author.-Medieval Houses and Martin, Esq. 8vo. Anvers, 1862. d'Archéologie de Belgique. Tome 19.

Lowestoft and London, 1863.

Castles in England. By Ch. Wykeham (Extrait des Annales de l'Académie Année 1862.)

From William Williams, Esq.-Two Photographs of the Pledge Cup of the Wor-
shipful Company of Founders, the gift of Richard Wesley, master 1631, 1640.
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From the Author.-The World's Debt to Art: a Lecture delivered in the Town Hall at Hanley, by A. J. B. Beresford Hope, Esq., February 24th, 1863, in aid of the Albert Memorial Fund. 8vo. London and Hanley, 1863.

From J. B. Heath, Esq., F.S.A.-An Account of Materials furnished for the use of Queen Anne Boleyn, and the Princess Elizabeth, by William Loke, the "King's Mercer," between the 20th January, 1535 (27th of Henry VIII.) and the 27th April, 1536. Communicated by J. B. Heath. Small 4to.

From Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.— Journals of the House of Lords, beginning in the 25th year of Victoria, 1862. Volume 94. Folio. London, 1862.

F. W. Burton, Esq., Alfred White, Esq., and Talbot Bury, Esq., were admitted Fellows.

JAMES FARRER, Esq. M.P., exhibited an implement of quartz, found in 1862 in a burgh at Firth in Orkney, destined to be deposited in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. This was interesting from its being an unfinished hammer, probably cast aside from the stone having cracked, or from the holes bored on each side being not quite opposite to each other, so as not to form a proper shaft-hole. This exhibition was accompanied by a note from JOHN EVANS, Esq. F.S.A., pointing out these particulars.

GEORGE E. ROBERTS, Esq., exhibited a volume of grants and warrants that had passed the Privy Seal, extending from 1610 to 1631.

Sir JOHN BOILEAU, Bart. V.P., exhibited a cast from an antique head in terra cotta, found at Caistor, near Norwich. It was a female head in high relief, and of fine workmanship, perhaps the head of a Victory. The original, which is in the collection of Robert Fitch, Esq. F.S.A., is engraved in Norfolk Archæology, vol. iv. p. 233, pl. ii.

JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq. F.S.A., read a communication on Portraits of the Queens of King Henry VIII., which was illustrated by an extensive series of engraved portraits. The writer pointed out how little reliance could be placed in the attribution of many of these portraits. This communication will be printed in the Archæologia.

GEORGE SCHARF, Esq. F.S.A., exhibited, in illustration of this communication, a portrait of Katharine of Arragon, formerly at Lee Priory; and he made some further remarks on the portraits of the Queens of Henry VIII.; and he pointed out that the only picture of Anne Boleyn on which any reliance could be placed was the oil picture at Windsor Castle with a golden B hanging from the necklace. This painting was copied în minia

ture by Hoskins for Charles I., and forms one of the well-known collection now belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch.

The Rev. SAMUEL LYSONS, F.S.A., gave an account of the opening of a tumulus on his property at Rodmarton, in Gloucestershire, of which the following are the particulars.

The tumulus was of the kind known as long barrows; its extreme length was 176 feet; greatest width 71 feet; height about 10 feet. (See figs. 1, 2.) It lay nearly due east and west.

FIGS. 1, 2.-Elevation and ground plan of Tumulus at Rodmarton. Scale 50 feet to 1 inch. 1, Stone covering North Chamber. 2. South Chamber. 3, 3, Upright Stones. 4. Leaning Stone.

Its popular name, "Windmill Tump," had probably diverted the attention of previous antiquaries, such as the Rev. S. Lysons and D. Lysons, Esq., the uncles of the present owner.

The surface-earth having been removed at the east end, the mound appeared to be composed of rubble stone of the country, not thrown together at hap-hazard, but as though dry walls had been erected through the tumulus, so as to support the rubble stones, and prevent them falling. A few feet below the surface the workmen discovered two large unhewn stones, placed upright in the ground, opposite to each other; each of them measured 8 feet 6 inches in height. (Fig. 3.) Against these was leaning a third stone, of large size, which was found to be supported on each side by a low dry wall, and could not therefore have slipped off from the other stones, as might otherwise have been surmised. The position of this stone is exactly similar to one in a cromlech in the county Kilkenny, Ireland, published in the Archæologia, vol. xvi. pl. xviii., and also to one at Molfra in Cornwall, of which a

model is to be seen in the British Museum. Another dry wall filled in the space between the two upright stones.

UTTING.

FIG. 3.-Slanting and upright Stones. No. 3 and 4 in plan.

Beneath these were discovered a quantity of animals' bones, including the teeth of horses, boars' tusks, and jaws of calves. No human bones appeared in this part of the tumulus, but a certain quantity of powdered charcoal.

The next investigation was made at the northern shoulder of the mound, where was discovered a chamber with a paved floor;

FIG. 4.-Plan of Chamber on north side. No. 1 in plan.

the sides were formed by seven large upright stones, and the top by an immense single stone, measuring nearly nine feet by eight, about eighteen inches thick, and weighing probably eight or nine tons. (Fig. 4.)