CAMDEN W mm^m SOCIETY, FOR THE PUBLICATION OB 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 3rd of May, 1847, THE RIGHT HON. LORD BRAYBROOKE IN THE CHAIR, HIS Lordship h#ving opeftedth^ business of tfefi Meeting, • The Secretary read the Report of the Cpuacil agjeed upon at their meeting of the 17th April ias$, whereupon it was Resolved, That the said Report be received §nd adapted, ajid that the Thanks of the Society be given to the Director and Council for their services. The Thanks of the Society were also ve$ed *0 the Editors of the Society's publications for the past year; and to the Local Secretaries. Thfc Secretary tfeea read the Report of the Auditors agreed upon at their Meeting of the 1st May, whereupon it was B*eolved, that the said Report fee reeeived and adopted, and that the Thafiks of the Society be given to the Auditors for their trouble. The Thanks of the Society having then been voted to the Treasurer, Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.22, on 28 Sep 2021 at 13:37:53, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900011949 2 ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF 1847- The Meeting proceeded to the election of Officers, when The Right Hon. Lord BEAYBROOKE, F.S.A. was elected PRESIDENT of the Society; and THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. BERIAH BOTFIELD, Esq. M.P., F.R.S., F.S.A. JOHN BRUCE, Esq. F.S.A. JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Treas. F.S.A. CHARLES PURTON COOPER, Esq. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. WILLIAM DURRANT COOPER, Esq. F.S.A. BOLTON CORNEY, Esq. M.R.S.L. Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., Sec. S.A. The Rev. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A. PETER LEVESQUE, Esq., F.S.A. The Rev. HENRY HART MILMAN, M.A. THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. THOMAS STAPLETON, Esq. F.S.A. WILLIAM JOHN THOMS, Esq. F.S.A. and Sir HARRY VERNEY, Bart, were elected as the COUNCIL ; and WILLIAM H. BLAAUW, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. GEORGE GODWIN, Jun. Esq. and ROBERT LEMON, Esq. F.S.A. were elected AUDITORS of the Society for the ensuing year. Thanks were then voted to the Secretary; and to Lord BRAYBROOKE, for the interest he had always taken in the welfare of the Society, and for his able conduct in the Chair. ELECTION OF OFFICERS, 1847. AT a Meeting of the COUNCIL of the Camden Society held at No. 25, Parliament Street, Westminster, on Wednesday the 5th May, 1847, The Rt. Hon. Lord BRAYBROOKE, the President, in the Chair; THOMAS AMYOT, 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: 170.106.33.22, on 28 Sep 2021 at 13:37:53, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900011949 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, ELECTED 2nd MAY, 1846. THE COUNCIL of the Camden Society, elected on the 2nd of May, 1846, have great pleasure in announcing to the Society the gratifying fact that the investment standing in the name of the Trustees of the Society has, during the past year, been increased from £831 13*. lid. to £877 10*. 9d. Three per cent. Consols. The Council have added the following gentlemen to the List of Local Secretaries:— SAMUEL TYMMS, Esq., for Bury St. Edmund's; The Rev. W. MEBRIMAN, for Frome; JOHN COMPORT, Esq., F.S.A. for Rochester, in the room of the late William F. Harrison, Esq.; and The Rev. ABRAHAM HUME, D.D., for Liverpool, in the room of the late Rev. Thomas Tattershall, D.D. And they trust they shall not be considered as outstepping the limits of their proper duty if they again seek to impress upon gentlemen resident in the country, and possessed of local influence, how great service they may render to the Society by bringing it under the notice of such of their friends as are known to take an interest in the early literature, history, and antiquities of this country. Every Member of the Society may, indeed, contribute to extend its sphere of usefulness, which cannot be better pro- moted than by diffusing a knowledge of its existence and purposes by the circulation of Prospectuses and through the insertion in provincial news- Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.22, on 28 Sep 2021 at 13:37:53, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900011949 4 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1847. papers and similar channels of information, of notices of the published works, and announcements of the forthcoming publications of the Society. For it must be borne in mind that it is not sufficient to ensure the con- tinued success of a Society of this description, that it should have been established with every prospect of permanence. The same energy which originally called it into existence, must be occasionally exerted in order to secure its continuance; and this is more especially necessary when it is considered how many similar bodies have originated out of the Camden Society. This circumstance, which is highly creditable to the Society, ought to impress upon its Members the necessity of displaying the same zeal for its maintenance as they evinced for its institution. The Council have to regret the deaths, during the past year, of— Rev. JOHN WAREYN DARBY, M.A. BALDWIN FULFORD, Esq. Right Honble. THOMAS GRENVILLE, F.S.A. ALFRED JOHN KEMPE, Esq. F.S.A. WILLIAM KNIGHT, Esq. F.S.A. JOHN M'HUTCHIN, Esq. WILLIAM M'MAHON, Esq. EDWARD RUDGE, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. Rt. Rev. the Bishop of SopoR and MAN. R§v. CHARLES BUTTON, D.D. JOHN SYDENHAM, jun. Esq. Rt. Honble. SIR NICHOLAS G. TINDAL. WALTER WILSON, Esq. The Council have, during the past year, added the following works to the liis-t of suggested Publications : ACdntmentaryof the Services and Charges of William Lord Grey of Wilton, K.Gb by his son Arthur Lord <Jrey of Wilton, K.G. with Documents illustrating the Biography of those Noblemen. Edited by SIR PHILIP DB MALPAS GHEY EGERTON, Bart. M.P., F.R.S., &c. Bqll of the Household Expenses of Richard Syreafield, Bishop of Hereford, in the years 1289, 1290, with Illustrations from other and coeval Document*. To be edited by the Rev. JOHN WEBB, M.A., F.S.A. The Chronicle of the Abbey of Peterborough ; from a MS. in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries. To be edited by THOMAS STAPLETON, Esq. V.P.S.A. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.22, on 28 Sep 2021 at 13:37:53, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900011949 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1847- 3 With reference to the last work they feel assured that the Members cannot but be gratified that the Camden Society should a second time prove the means of giving to the student of English History a document of which the importance is attested by the fact that it was one of those selected for publication by the late Record Commission. The Council have entrusted its editorship to Mr. Stapleton, to whom the Society have been recently indebted for the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, and they have done so in the confidence that he will discharge his editorial duties in such a manner as will justify the Council in requesting the Right Honble. the Lord Langdale, Her Majesty's Keeper of Records, an early and most distinguished Member of the Society, to permit them to publish from time to time such other transcripts, made for that Commission, as fall within the province of the Camden Society. The publications issued during the past year have been— De Antiquis Legibus Liber, a Chronicle of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London, and of divers events of those times. Edited by THOMAS STAPLETON, Esq. F.S.A. The Chronicle of Calais, temp. Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII. Edited by JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq. F.S.A. which belong to the Subscription of the preceding year; and Polydore Vergil's English History, vol. I. to the Conquest. Edited by Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., Sec. S.A. A Relation, or rather a Trae Account, of England, under Henry VII. Trans- lated from the Italian of "a Contemporary Venetian Nobleman, resident at the English Court, with Notes, by CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA SNEYD. The Collegiate Church of Middlebam, Documents relating to its Foundation and History. Edited by the Rev. WILLIAM ATTHILL, Canon and Sub-Dean of Middleham. These will be followed by the first volume of THE CAMDEN MIS- CELL ANY, which will be delivered in return for the Subscription of the year now concluded. The latter work has been undertaken by the Council in consequence of a difficulty which they have frequently experienced when documents of considerable interest have been offered to them for publication, but which were found to be of such limited «xtent as would not justify their being printed as separate volumes.