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CAMDEN ftJHfeJ SOCIETY, FOR THE PUBLICATION OF EARLY HISTORICAL AND LITERARY REMAINS. At a General Meeting of the Camden Society held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, on Wednesday, the 2nd day of May, 1856, JOHN BRUCE, ESQ., THE DIRECTOR, IN THE CHAIR, THE Director having opened the business of the Meeting, The Secretary read the Report of the Council agreed upon at their meeting of the 16th of April, whereupon it was Resolved, That the Report be received and adopted, and that the Thanks of the Society be given to the Director and Council for their services. Thanks were then voted to the Local Secretaries and to the Editors of the Publications for the past year. The Secretary then read the Report of the Auditors, agreed upon at their Meeting of the 16th of April, whereupon it was Resolvedj That the Report of the Auditors be received and adopted, and that the Thanks of the Meeting be given to the Auditors for their trouble. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 27 Sep 2021 at 13:30:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204216990001453X 2 ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF 1856. Thanks having been voted to the Treasurer and Secretary, the Meeting proceeded to the Election of Officers, when The Right Hon. Lord BRAYBROOKE, F.S.A. was elected PRESIDENT of the Society; and WILLIAM HENRY BLAAUW, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. JOHN BRUCE, Esq. F.S.A. JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. F.S.A. WILLIAM DURRANT COOPER, Esq. F.S.A. BOLTON CORNEY, Esq. M.R.S.L. JAMES CROSBY, Esq. F.S.A. Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., Dir. S.A. The Earl JERMYN, M.P., F.S.A. The Rev. LAMBERT B. LARKING, M.A. PETER LEVESQUE, Esq. F.S.A. FREDERIC OUVRY, Esq. Treas. S.A. WILLIAM JOHN THOMS, Esq. F.S.A. WILLIAM TITE, Esq. M.P., F.R.S., F S.A. ALBERT WAY, Esq. M.A., F.S.A., and The Rev. JOHN WEBB, M.A., F.S.A. were elected as the Council of the Society ; and GEORGE R. CORNER, Esq. F.S.A. JOHN FORSTER, Esq. F.S.A., and THOMAS W. KING, Esq. F.S.A., York Herald, were elected Auditors of the Society; for the year then next ensuing. Thanks were then voted to the Director for his able conduct in the Chair, and the great interest always taken by him in the welfare of the Society. ELECTION OF OFFICERS, 1856. At a MEETING of the COUNCIL of the CAMDEN SOCIETY, held at No. 25, Parliament Street, Westminster, on Wednesday the 4th day of June, 1856, the Council having proceeded to the Election of Officers,— JOHN BRUCE, Esq. was elected Director; JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. Treasurer; and WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq. Secretary, for the year next ensuing. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 27 Sep 2021 at 13:30:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204216990001453X REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, ELECTED 2nd MAY, 1855. THE Council of the Camden Society, elected on the 2nd May, 1855, regret to have to announce that their year of office has been marked by the deaths of several colleagues. They have especially to lament the loss of the Lord Viscount STRANGFOBD,—a nobleman distinguished by literary attainments as much as by courteous and kindly bearing, and the warm interest he took in archaeological and historical literature. The Society will remember that Lord Strangford was not only a member of the Council for several years, but that he edited for the Society The Household Expenses of the Princess Elizabeth during her Residence at Hatfield, from Oct. 1551 to Sept. 1552, which is printed in the second volume of the Miscellany. By the death of JOHN ADAMSON, Esq., a gentleman distinguished, like Lord Strangford, by intimate acquaintance with the literature of Portugal, the Society also lost a most accomplished Member. Since its formation, he added to his duties as Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of New- castle-upon-Tyne that of Local Secretary to the Camden Society. The Council have also to regret the deaths during the past year of the following other-Members of the Society :— Sir ROBERT SHAFTO ADAIR. Right Hon. LORD BAGOT, D.C.L., F.S.A. GEORGE WEARS BRAIKENRIDGE, Esq., F.S.A. Sir WILLIAM CHATTERTON, Bart. WILLIAM DIKE, Esq. JOHN GRAT, Esq. The Right Hon. Sir ROBERT HARRV INGLIS, Bart, LL.D., KR.S., and F.S.A. JOSEPH NEELD, Esq, M.P., F.S.A. His JGrace the DUKE OF SOMERSET, K.G., D.C.L., F.R.S. JOSEPH BROOKS YATES, Esq., F.S A. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 27 Sep 2021 at 13:30:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204216990001453X 4 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1856. Passing from their obituary record, which must yearly be a subject of regret, to the other branches of the Society's affairs, the Council have nothing to report but what is favourable. The Report of the Auditors gives evidence to the continued financial prosperity of the Society. The balance in favour of the Society at the end of the financial year was £327 14*. 3d. The publications during the past year have been— Charles I. in 1646. Letters of King Charles the First to Queen Henrietta Maria. Now first printed from a MS. in the possession of Joseph C. Witton, Esq. Edited by JOHN BRUCE, Esq. Director Camd. Soc. But for the Camden Society, aided by the friendly assistance of NOTES and QUERIES, the MS. of these letters might have remained unpublished in the possession of the gentleman to whom it belongs, and to whose liberality in permitting its publication the Society is greatly indebted. An English Chronicle of the reigns of Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI., written before the year 1471. Edited by the Rev. JOHN SILVESTER DAVIES, M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford. This addition to our national Chronicles will no doubt be received with great satisfaction by the members. In this instance, also, the Society is indebted to the liberality of the owner of the MS. for its publication; and that gentleman has an additional claim to their thanks, in having super- intended the work through the press. The third publication for the year will be— Extent of the Estates of the Hospitalers in England. Taken under the direction of Prior Philip de Thame, A.D. 1338 ; from the Original in the Public Library at Malta. Edited by the Rev. LAMBERT B. LARKING, M.A. This has been delayed by the receipt of some fresh documents from Malta, discovered there by the research and industry of Dr. Vella and Mr. Winthrop, and kindly communicated by them to the Editor. A list of the Members of the Society, which the Council have lately thought it right to publish, offers several subjects for comment with reference to the present state and prospects of the Society. Among these subjects is the pleasing circumstance of the number of permanent Libraries now subscribers to the Society. There are at this time on the list of the Society no fewer than 54 such bodies, scattered over the three kingdoms and the continent of Europe, and reaching to America, and even to Australia. Such Subscribers offer an evidence of the wide diffusion of the labours of the Society, and constitute an important guarantee for its stability. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 27 Sep 2021 at 13:30:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204216990001453X REPORT OP THE COUNCIL, 1856. 5 The Council has, during the past year, added the following works to the list of suggested publications. 1. A Catalogue of the Library of St. Augustine, York; from the Original MS* in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. To be Edited by the Rev. JAMES HEN- THORN TOPD, D.D. &c. 2. Compositions for not receiving the Honour of Knighthood, tempore Henry VIII., Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I. 3. A Collection of Papers connected with the Proceedings of the Two Parlia- ments in 1640. From the Surrenden MS8. To be Edited by the Rev. LAMBERT B. LARKING, M.A. The Council have also had under consideration several other proposals of considerable interest; amongst them one the circumstances of which it is right to record in their report. Immediately on the publication of the third and fourth volumes of Mr. Macaulay's History of England the Council communicated with the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' College, Oxford, on the subject of printing The Diary of Narcissus Luttrell, the curiosity and value of which had been so clearly pointed out by Mr. Macaulay. The Council have little doubt, from the manner in which their communication was received, that the College would have accorded them permission to print the work, had not the Delegates of the Clarendon Press notified to the authorities of All Souls, very shortly afterwards, their anxiety to undertake its publication. Pleased as the Council would have been to have given to the world a Diary of so much promise, they felt that it was in accordance with the principles of this Society not to interfere with any of the ordinary channels of publication, and they there- fore yielded to the claims of the Clarendon Press.