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Minutes of meeting, 8 May 1788

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SAL/02/022/042
Title
Minutes of meeting, 8 May 1788
Date
8/5/1788
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The following Fellow was recommended for election: Richard Harford.

The following Fellow was elected: Thomas Leman.

The following Fellow was admitted to the Society: Thomas Gascoigne.

Dr. Combe presented Tractatus varii Latini a Crevier, Brotier, Auger, aliisque clarissimis viris conscripti.

Mr. Lysons exhibited a small bronze figurine of Diana, found at Weston, Herefordshire.

Phillip Rashleigh exhibited several curious antiquities discovered in Cornwall in 1774, accompanied by a drawing of them.

Read a letter from Rev. Samuel Pegge to the Secretary giving an account of some antiquities found in Middleton Moor, Derbyshire, with a drawing by Major Rooke.

Read a letter from the Rev. Denne to Richard Gough containing remarks on the stalls near the Communion Table in Maidstone Church as well as an inquiry into Archbishop Courtney’s burial place.
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