Minutes of meeting, 7 June 1792
Reference code
SAL/02/024/050
Title
Minutes of meeting, 7 June 1792
Date
7/6/1792
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Item
Scope and content
The following Fellows were elected: Rev. William Beloe, John Chamberlaine and William Long.
The President, Earl of Leicester, exhibited a Roll of the Kings of England, now belonging to Richard Modyford Heywood of Devon but previously to his forebear Sir Nicholas Slanning, Governor of Plymouth [actually Pendennis Castle, Falmouth] temp. Charles I. Beginning with Ethelbert, it was thought to have been made by the monk Edwy of Canterbury in the reign of Henry V.
Mr. L’Abbé Mann presented his work, “Mémoires sur les grandes Gelées et leurs effets”.
Charles Marsh exhibited a one-sixth scale model of a moving coach taken from the carriage of the Swami belonging to the famous pagoda [Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple] at Seringham in the Carnatic [the river island of Srirangam, north of Trichinopoly, now Tiruchirappalli, in Tamil Nadu, India].
The Secretary exhibited fragments of Roman earthenware from Restormel Castle, Cornwall, some showing the maker’s name.
Richard Molesworth again exhibited three pieces of gold found in Ireland; drawings were to be made.
More of Dr Pegge’s account of Anglo-Saxon coins in the Cotton Library was read. There was no remaining coin of the East Saxon, South Saxon or East Anglian kingdoms struck before the time of Egbert, and the penny attributed by Mr Speed to Aldulph [Ealdwulf], king of East Anglia ca. AD 664, was not Anglo-Saxon: based on characteristics of medallic quality, absence of mint master/place of coinage, Latinization of inscriptions and form of letters in a manner unknown to the Saxons. His alternative attribution was to Adolph, Duke of Guelderland, ca. 1467, although others suggested origins in Holstein/Frisia. [Modern scholarship suggests Audulf of Frisia, ca. 6th-7th century]. Remainder of paper postponed.
The President, Earl of Leicester, exhibited a Roll of the Kings of England, now belonging to Richard Modyford Heywood of Devon but previously to his forebear Sir Nicholas Slanning, Governor of Plymouth [actually Pendennis Castle, Falmouth] temp. Charles I. Beginning with Ethelbert, it was thought to have been made by the monk Edwy of Canterbury in the reign of Henry V.
Mr. L’Abbé Mann presented his work, “Mémoires sur les grandes Gelées et leurs effets”.
Charles Marsh exhibited a one-sixth scale model of a moving coach taken from the carriage of the Swami belonging to the famous pagoda [Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple] at Seringham in the Carnatic [the river island of Srirangam, north of Trichinopoly, now Tiruchirappalli, in Tamil Nadu, India].
The Secretary exhibited fragments of Roman earthenware from Restormel Castle, Cornwall, some showing the maker’s name.
Richard Molesworth again exhibited three pieces of gold found in Ireland; drawings were to be made.
More of Dr Pegge’s account of Anglo-Saxon coins in the Cotton Library was read. There was no remaining coin of the East Saxon, South Saxon or East Anglian kingdoms struck before the time of Egbert, and the penny attributed by Mr Speed to Aldulph [Ealdwulf], king of East Anglia ca. AD 664, was not Anglo-Saxon: based on characteristics of medallic quality, absence of mint master/place of coinage, Latinization of inscriptions and form of letters in a manner unknown to the Saxons. His alternative attribution was to Adolph, Duke of Guelderland, ca. 1467, although others suggested origins in Holstein/Frisia. [Modern scholarship suggests Audulf of Frisia, ca. 6th-7th century]. Remainder of paper postponed.
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