CAMDEN w mmL m 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 Monday the 2nd May, 1842, THOMAS AMYOT, ESQ. F.R.S., TREAS. S.A., 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 28th April last, whereupon it was Resolved, That the said Report be received and printed, and that the Thanks of the Society be given to the Council for their services. The Thanks of the Society were also voted to the Editors of the Society's publications; to the Right Honourable Thomas Grenville; to the Master and Fellows of St. Peter's College, Cambridge; to J. I. Black- burn, Esq. M.P.; to the Local Secretaries; and to Messrs. Nichols, for the assistance towards attaining the objects of the Society mentioned in the Report as having been given by them. The Secretary then read the Report of the Auditors, agreed upon at their meeting of the 30th of April last, whereupon it was Resolved, That the said Report be received and approved, and that the Thanks of the Society be given to the Auditors for their trouble. Thanks -were then voted to the Director, Treasurer, and Secretary for their services during the past year; and Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.226, on 25 Sep 2021 at 00:35:51, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900001322 2 ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF 1842. The Meeting then proceeded to the election of Officers, when The Right Hon. Lord FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P. was elected President, and THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. F.R.S. Treas. S.A. The Right Hon. Lord BRAYBROOKE. JOHN BRUCE, Esq. F.S.A. JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. F.S.A. CHARLES PURTON COOPER, Esq. Q.C. D.C.L. F.R.S. F.S.A. T. CROFTON CROKER, Esq. F.S.A. M.R.I.A. Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H. F.R.S. Sec. S.A. JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. The Rev. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A. Sir FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A. JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE, Esq. F.S.A. The Rev. LANCELOT SHARPE, M.A., F.S.A. THOMAS STAPLETON, Esq. F.S.A. WILLIAM JOHN THOMS, Esq. F.S.A. and THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. were elected as the Council, and JOHN YONGE AKERMAN, Esq. F.S.A. CHARLES FREDERICK BARNWELL, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A., and PETER CUNNINGHAM, Esq. were elected Auditors of the Society for the ensuing year. Thanks were then voted to the Director, for his able conduct in the Chair. ELECTION OF OFFICERS, 1842. AT a Meeting of the COUNCIL of the Camden Society held at No. 25, Parliament Street, Westminster, on Thursday the 5th May, 1842, THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. in the Chair; The Council having proceeded to the Election of Officers,— THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. was elected Director; JOHN BRUCE, Esq. Treasurer; and WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq. Secretary, for the Year next ensuing. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.226, on 25 Sep 2021 at 00:35:51, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900001322 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. DATED 1st MAY, 1842. THE Council elected on the 3rd May 1841 are pleased to be able to report that the affairs of the Society continue in a condition of unabated prosperity. The number of 1200 Members, to which the Society is limited, has been maintained; and there continues to be a large number of Candidates for admission upon vacancies. The investment standing in the names of the Trustees for the Society has been increased, since the last General Meeting, from the sum of £408 0s. Ad., Three per Cent, consols, to £574 13s. 8d. This increase has arisen from the investment of sums received for Compositions; and the Council recommend that whatever sum may now be in hand on that account, should be added to the investment. The Council have added the following gentlemen to the list of Local Secretaries:— The Rev. Joseph Bosworth, LL.D. for Nottingham. Richard Rees, Esq. F.S.A. for Cardiff, in the place of Captain W. H. Smyth, retired. James Heywood Markland, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. for Bath, in the place of Rev. William L. Nichols, who has removed. The Publications for the past year have been— The Second Book of the Travels of Nicander Nucius, a Corcyraean Gentleman who came to England in the suite of an Ambassador from the Netherlands, sent by the Emperor Charles V. to the Court of Henry VIII.: translated from the Original Greek MS. formerly belonging to Archbishop Laud, and now preserved in the Bodleian Library. Edited by the Rev. JOHN ANTONY CRAMER, D.D. Principal of New Inn Hall, and Public Orator, Oxford. The Latin Poetry of Walter Mapes, Archdeacon of Oxford at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. and Three inedited Early English Metrical Romances. Edited, from a MS. in the possession of J. I. Blackburn, Esq. M.P., by JOHN ROBSON, Esq. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.226, on 25 Sep 2021 at 00:35:51, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900001322 4 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1842. And— The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, from the MS. in the Ashmolean Library, together with a Catalogue of MSS. in his Library. Edited by JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. is completed at the press, and will be ready for delivery to the Members by the end of the present month. The Council have followed the pre- cedent of former years, in directing that there should be appended to the last-mentioned volume a list of the Members of the Society for the past year; and, if the General Meeting think proper, this Report and that of the Auditors may also be added. The Council have much satisfaction in being able to state that the " Apology for the Lollards/' a work attributed to Wickliffe, which has been so long delayed by reason of the many engagements of the Editor, the Rev. Jas. Henthorn Todd, D.D. is now on the eve of completion; and will certainly be ready for delivery in the ensuing year. Considerable progress has also been made with the " Promptorium/' a Latin and English Dictionary of words in use during the fifteenth cen- tury, editing by Albert Way, Esq. F.S.A. a work which the Council be- lieve will be one of great merit and utility; and a portion of it will be one of the publications of the ensuing year. Besides the Apology for the Lollards and the Promptuary, the follow- ing works have been ordered to be put to press at the convenience of their Editors and the Society, and will be published as soon as they are ready. A Collection of Original Letters and Papers of Literary Men of England during the Iteigns of Elizabeth and James I., including some Unpublished Papers of Camden. To be edited by SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A. Latin Romance Narratives and Legends of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Centuries, relating to King Arthur and other Heroes of the Welsh and Breton cycle of Fiction. To be edited by Sir FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A. Letters and State Papers relating to the Proceedings of the Earl of Leicester in the Low Countries, in the years 1585 and 1586, derived from a MS. placed at the Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.226, on 25 Sep 2021 at 00:35:51, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900001322 REPORT OP THE COUNCIL, 1842. 5 disposal of the Society by Frederick Ouvry, Esq. and other sources. To be edited by JOHN BRUCE, Esq. F.S.A. The Private Diary of Thomas Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, temp. James II. The Romance of Jean and Blonde of Oxford, by Philippe de Reims, an Anglo- Norman Poet, of the latter end of the twelfth Century. To be edited from a Unique MS. in the Royal Library at Paris, by M. LE ROUX DE LINCY, editor of the Ro- man de Brut. The Council have added the following works to the list of Suggested Publications— A Collection of Original Letters relating to the Dissolution of the Monasteries and some other points connected with the Reformation. To be edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. Specimens of the Anglo-Latin Poets from the seventh to the thirteenth century, selected from inedited MSS. and arranged chronologically, with notices of the Writers and popular Notes. To be edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. Contemporary Diary of a resident in London, extending from the Year 1550 to 1563, now the Cottonian MS. Vitellius F. v. To be edited by JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq.