Minutes of meeting, 10 February 1791
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SAL/02/024/005
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Minutes of meeting, 10 February 1791
Date
10/2/1791
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The President informed the Society that he had waited upon H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence with their Register, and he had received his Highness’s signature.
The following Fellows were recommended for election: Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart., Captain in the Royal Navy and Groom of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence; Henry Browne and Robert Willan M.D.
The following Fellow was recommended and elected: Sir James Eyre, Knt., Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty’s Court of Exchequer
The following Fellow was elected: John Spranger.
The following Fellows were admitted to the Society: Joseph Jekyl, Treby Hele Hays and Thomas Hammersley.
The first and second parts of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year 1790 were presented.
Mr I. T. Smith presented the first number of a work entitled “Antiquities of London and Environs”, at the same time seeking further financial support.
Samuel Lysons exhibited a hollow gold Cross, probably a reliquary, engraved on both sides and originally enamelled, found some years previously in the New Forest, Hampshire about a mile from Bramshaw, not far from the Rufus Stone.
Craven Ord exhibited two drawings of fonts with covers of most elaborate gothic woodwork in the churches of St. Mary’s, Ufford near Woodbridge, and St. Gregory, Sudbury, both in Suffolk.
Letter from Governor Pownall to Mr Brooke on discoveries lately made at Bath, during excavations on the east side of Stall Street near the old Pump Rooms. Architectural fragments of an ornamented, large classical edifice carried finely cut inscriptions indicating earlier restoration by a private individual of a building already decayed by age; a votive altar with inscription was also found. Principal find was the building’s ornamented tympanum bearing the cherubic emblem of Sol, a human face and head crowned with a serpentine pinnated diadem; concluded to have been placed in the pediment of a temple dedicated to Sol as patron god of the Aquae Sulis.
Major General Roy’s dissertation, on the field of battle between Caractacus and Ostorius, with occasional remarks concerning the situation of the Bravinium of Antoninus, supposed to be the same with the Branogenium of Ptolemy and Richard, was read.
The following Fellows were recommended for election: Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart., Captain in the Royal Navy and Groom of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence; Henry Browne and Robert Willan M.D.
The following Fellow was recommended and elected: Sir James Eyre, Knt., Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty’s Court of Exchequer
The following Fellow was elected: John Spranger.
The following Fellows were admitted to the Society: Joseph Jekyl, Treby Hele Hays and Thomas Hammersley.
The first and second parts of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year 1790 were presented.
Mr I. T. Smith presented the first number of a work entitled “Antiquities of London and Environs”, at the same time seeking further financial support.
Samuel Lysons exhibited a hollow gold Cross, probably a reliquary, engraved on both sides and originally enamelled, found some years previously in the New Forest, Hampshire about a mile from Bramshaw, not far from the Rufus Stone.
Craven Ord exhibited two drawings of fonts with covers of most elaborate gothic woodwork in the churches of St. Mary’s, Ufford near Woodbridge, and St. Gregory, Sudbury, both in Suffolk.
Letter from Governor Pownall to Mr Brooke on discoveries lately made at Bath, during excavations on the east side of Stall Street near the old Pump Rooms. Architectural fragments of an ornamented, large classical edifice carried finely cut inscriptions indicating earlier restoration by a private individual of a building already decayed by age; a votive altar with inscription was also found. Principal find was the building’s ornamented tympanum bearing the cherubic emblem of Sol, a human face and head crowned with a serpentine pinnated diadem; concluded to have been placed in the pediment of a temple dedicated to Sol as patron god of the Aquae Sulis.
Major General Roy’s dissertation, on the field of battle between Caractacus and Ostorius, with occasional remarks concerning the situation of the Bravinium of Antoninus, supposed to be the same with the Branogenium of Ptolemy and Richard, was read.
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