Minutes of meeting, 12 May 1791
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SAL/02/024/016
Title
Minutes of meeting, 12 May 1791
Date
12/5/1791
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The following Fellow was recommended for election: John Wilmot of Bedford Row, Master in Chancery and FRS.
The following Fellow was elected: Thomas Meredith of Wrexham, Denbighshire.
Owen Salusbury Brereton presented a print of the font in Debden church, Essex, and exhibited a brass ring found some time previously near Warwick.
Description of oak trees in Welbeck Park, Nottinghamshire, presented by Major Rooke through Richard Gough (Director).
Drawing of an antique gold ring weighing one ounce and with a pale blue stone; found near Friars’ Carse, Dumfriesshire, Seat of [Captain] Robert Riddell of Glenriddell [a close neighbour and friend of Robert Burns]; presented by him through Richard Gough (Director).
Letter to Richard Gough (Director), also from Mr Riddell, with drawings of a cast brass [bronze?] spear head. Also drawings of a Roman iron pickaxe found in the region near Longtown.
James Wathen, who earlier [1789] provided 4 engraved views of Hereford Cathedral just before and after its ruin [1786], presented 3 drawings of Hampton Court in Herefordshire through Richard Gough (Director) who observed on its origins. Although its building was by tradition ascribed to Henry IV, the house was erected by Sir Rowland Lenthall on an estate granted by the King when Lenthall married Margaret Fitzalan, daughter of the Earl of Arundel, a cousin of the King. Building funded by a pension and benefits arising from battle of Agincourt, including prisoner ransom. Present owner since 1779 was Viscount Malden. Mr Gough mentioned the estate, its chapel, various coats of arms, picture collection (with miniatures by Lady Malden) and library.
Thomas Astle read William Myers’ account of the source and course of River Orwell in Suffolk and of a conjectured eponymous earlier town and harbour. He observed on etymology of the river’s name relating to slowness of its course. From topography, he adduced an earlier outlet to sea with its former harbour now a large bay. For evidence of the former town, he cited historical accounts of Danish raids; from the reign of Henry II, the point of return to these shores by Queen Eleanor, her son Henry “the Young King” and their forces; and, from the reign of Edward III, the point from which he set sail to invade France asserting his claim to the French crown. He further cited large ruins, apparent at low water on a neck of land on the Essex coast, where tiles and bricks had been noted by local persons at Harwich, lobster fishermen, and Captains of Custom House sloops. He opined on the true location of the strait known as Orwell Haven in relation to Harwich and Langar Fort and offered thoughts on the earlier extent of land at Felixstowe into the sea. Further consideration of this paper was postponed.
The following Fellow was elected: Thomas Meredith of Wrexham, Denbighshire.
Owen Salusbury Brereton presented a print of the font in Debden church, Essex, and exhibited a brass ring found some time previously near Warwick.
Description of oak trees in Welbeck Park, Nottinghamshire, presented by Major Rooke through Richard Gough (Director).
Drawing of an antique gold ring weighing one ounce and with a pale blue stone; found near Friars’ Carse, Dumfriesshire, Seat of [Captain] Robert Riddell of Glenriddell [a close neighbour and friend of Robert Burns]; presented by him through Richard Gough (Director).
Letter to Richard Gough (Director), also from Mr Riddell, with drawings of a cast brass [bronze?] spear head. Also drawings of a Roman iron pickaxe found in the region near Longtown.
James Wathen, who earlier [1789] provided 4 engraved views of Hereford Cathedral just before and after its ruin [1786], presented 3 drawings of Hampton Court in Herefordshire through Richard Gough (Director) who observed on its origins. Although its building was by tradition ascribed to Henry IV, the house was erected by Sir Rowland Lenthall on an estate granted by the King when Lenthall married Margaret Fitzalan, daughter of the Earl of Arundel, a cousin of the King. Building funded by a pension and benefits arising from battle of Agincourt, including prisoner ransom. Present owner since 1779 was Viscount Malden. Mr Gough mentioned the estate, its chapel, various coats of arms, picture collection (with miniatures by Lady Malden) and library.
Thomas Astle read William Myers’ account of the source and course of River Orwell in Suffolk and of a conjectured eponymous earlier town and harbour. He observed on etymology of the river’s name relating to slowness of its course. From topography, he adduced an earlier outlet to sea with its former harbour now a large bay. For evidence of the former town, he cited historical accounts of Danish raids; from the reign of Henry II, the point of return to these shores by Queen Eleanor, her son Henry “the Young King” and their forces; and, from the reign of Edward III, the point from which he set sail to invade France asserting his claim to the French crown. He further cited large ruins, apparent at low water on a neck of land on the Essex coast, where tiles and bricks had been noted by local persons at Harwich, lobster fishermen, and Captains of Custom House sloops. He opined on the true location of the strait known as Orwell Haven in relation to Harwich and Langar Fort and offered thoughts on the earlier extent of land at Felixstowe into the sea. Further consideration of this paper was postponed.
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