Minutes of meeting, 9 January 1766
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SAL/02/010/017
Title
Minutes of meeting, 9 January 1766
Date
9/1/1766
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Item
Scope and content
The following Fellows were proposed for election: Joseph Banks, Dr Blanshard, Viscount Nuneham, George Perry, Dr Petit.
The Lord Bishop of Carlisle informed the Society that he had the honour of presenting to the King a set of Monumenta Vetusta and a book of coins.
Andrew Ducarel read a letter from the Rev Brian Fausett (Heppington 1 January 1766) on a cemetery of St Augustine’s Monastery, Canterbury, and the taking down of St Ethelbert’s Tower for a house for Sir Edward Hales [detailed account of coffins found].
Charles Lyttelton on a manuscript ‘Directions how to make such coloured and gilded letters as are to be seen frequently in old Manuscripts’ [this is the Treatise on illumination now part of the Society’s collection as MSS/0006].
The Lord Bishop of Carlisle informed the Society that he had the honour of presenting to the King a set of Monumenta Vetusta and a book of coins.
Andrew Ducarel read a letter from the Rev Brian Fausett (Heppington 1 January 1766) on a cemetery of St Augustine’s Monastery, Canterbury, and the taking down of St Ethelbert’s Tower for a house for Sir Edward Hales [detailed account of coffins found].
Charles Lyttelton on a manuscript ‘Directions how to make such coloured and gilded letters as are to be seen frequently in old Manuscripts’ [this is the Treatise on illumination now part of the Society’s collection as MSS/0006].
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Society of Antiquaries of London
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