Minutes of meeting, 13 November 1766
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SAL/02/010/038
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Minutes of meeting, 13 November 1766
Date
13/11/1766
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The following Fellow was proposed for election: Lewis Giraldi.
Sir Thomas Sewell, Master of the Rolls, proposed and elected.
Sir Joseph Ayloffe’s gift of book ‘An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Noble Family of Greville, to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke and Earl of Warwick since the Norman Conquest, and some account of Warwick Castle’ London (1766).
John Forster’s description of a painting found at Herculaneum, now in the possession of the Great Dukes of Russia [with drawing].
Mr Lort exhibits plan of Stonehenge copied from MS in Archbishop Parker’s collection entitled Scala Mundi, vel Chronicon Rerum gestarum ab Initio Mundi..., Stonehenges juxta Amesbury...
Charles Lyttelton on antiquities discovered in digging a Roman Station in the grounds of H. Stenhouse of Netherhall Cumb [detailed account].
John Forster from Danzig, on an inscription on stone found near Bilyarsh[?] in Muscovy about 66 miles south of Kasan [with drawing].
Daniel Wray from Mr Hewett two brass coins, one of Adrian, the other of Galienus found at Littleborough on the Trent, Agelocum or Segelocum of the Romans.
Lengthy account by John Forster of the ’Britons’ and peoples originating in the Caucasus region.
Sir Thomas Sewell, Master of the Rolls, proposed and elected.
Sir Joseph Ayloffe’s gift of book ‘An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Noble Family of Greville, to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke and Earl of Warwick since the Norman Conquest, and some account of Warwick Castle’ London (1766).
John Forster’s description of a painting found at Herculaneum, now in the possession of the Great Dukes of Russia [with drawing].
Mr Lort exhibits plan of Stonehenge copied from MS in Archbishop Parker’s collection entitled Scala Mundi, vel Chronicon Rerum gestarum ab Initio Mundi..., Stonehenges juxta Amesbury...
Charles Lyttelton on antiquities discovered in digging a Roman Station in the grounds of H. Stenhouse of Netherhall Cumb [detailed account].
John Forster from Danzig, on an inscription on stone found near Bilyarsh[?] in Muscovy about 66 miles south of Kasan [with drawing].
Daniel Wray from Mr Hewett two brass coins, one of Adrian, the other of Galienus found at Littleborough on the Trent, Agelocum or Segelocum of the Romans.
Lengthy account by John Forster of the ’Britons’ and peoples originating in the Caucasus region.
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