Minutes of meeting, 27 June 1776
Reference code
SAL/02/015/001
Title
Minutes of meeting, 27 June 1776
Date
27/6/1776
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Item
Scope and content
The following Fellow was elected: Ashton Lever.
The Hon. D Barrington exhibited a very curious bird cage.
George Allan of Darlington presented engraved copies of Bishop Hugh Pudsey’s Charter to the City of Durham with Pope Alexander III’s confirmation to the members.
Observations by Edward King on an ancient Piece of Ordnance dragged out of the sea near the Goodwin Sands in 1775, and comments on the early use of cannon in the field and at sea.
Proposals by Mr Dran to examine Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, rejected by the Society.
The Hon. D Barrington exhibited a very curious bird cage.
George Allan of Darlington presented engraved copies of Bishop Hugh Pudsey’s Charter to the City of Durham with Pope Alexander III’s confirmation to the members.
Observations by Edward King on an ancient Piece of Ordnance dragged out of the sea near the Goodwin Sands in 1775, and comments on the early use of cannon in the field and at sea.
Proposals by Mr Dran to examine Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, rejected by the Society.
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Society of Antiquaries of London
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