http://kentarchaeology.org.uk/research/archaeologia-cantiana/ Kent Archaeological Society is a registered charity number 223382 © 2017 Kent Archaeological Society ———•-; PEOCEEDINGS 1887. THE Council met, on the 28th of December 1887, in the Society's Eooms at Maidstone Museum. Five members were present, of whom G-eorge M. Arnold, Esq., was asked to preside. The first copy of Archceologia Oantiana, Vol. XVII., was laid upon the table by its Editor, Canon Scott Eobertson. This volume contained 474 pages of printed matter, 55 Illustrations, and 27 Papers upon various branches of Archeology. Its total cost was £527, for 985 copies. Of this cost, no less than £210 was expended upon the 55 Illustrations. It was resolved: "That the.Council congratulates Canon Scott Eobertson (the Honorary Secretary and Editor) upon the issue of the 17th Volume of Archceologia. Oantiana, and desires to express the Society's warmest thanks for the great labour and attention he has bestowed on the preparation, revision, and editing of that work; o£ which this is the ninth Volume that he has himself edited and issued." Mr. Gt-eorge Dowker submitted a Eeport of 'the excavations at Eichborough* outside the Eoman Castrum. The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Samuel Mercer which stated that when the names of two new Trustees (the present Earl Amherst and J. Or. Talbot, Esq.) were inserted in the books of the Bank of England, our bankers, Messrs. "Wigan, Mercer, and Co., caused all the Society's Stock to be transferred into Consols. Mr. Mercer adds that the total amount of the Society's Consols is £985 : 1 : 5. Thanks were voted to Mr. Lambert "Weston of Dover (a member of the Society) for gratuitously photographing on an enlarged scale, for the Society's Eoomsat Maidstone, a portrait of the Mar- quess Camden (the first President of the Society), kindly lent to Canon Scott Eobertson for this purpose, by his Lordship's daughter, Lady Frances Pratt. Six new members were elected. * Printed in this volume, vide pages 6—14. VOL. XTlll. <s xlii REPOBT, 1888. 1888. On the 24th of March, the Council met in the Society's Eooms at Maidstone Museum. Eight members were present, and Captain Tylden-Pattenson was voted into the Ohair. Upon the application of several members it was resolved to recommend that a General Index to Archceologia Oantiana should be prepared. It was agreed to accept the Q-overnment Scheme for Converting 3 Per Cent. Consols into 2f Stock. Eighteen new members were elected. The Council met in London, on the 21st of June 1888, at the house of the Noble President, Earl Sydney, in Cleveland Square, St. James's. Fourteen members were present, and the Earl Sydney presided. The Programme of the Annual Meeting, to be held at Hythe, was discussed and settled. It was resolved to recommend to the Annual Meeting that, as Consols now produce only £2 : 15 : 0 per cent, per annum, and will soon yield only £2 : 10 : 0 per cent., the composition for Life membership shall be increased (from £5) to £6. Eleven candidates were elected members of the Society. The Annual Meeting commenced at Hythe on Wednesday, August 1st, 1888. In.Hythe Town Hall, the Lord Bishop of Dover presided at the business meeting. The Eeport was read by Canon Scott Eobertson as follows:— REPORT. • I?* presenting the 31st Annual Eeport of the Kent Archaeological Sooiety the Council cannot enter upon its details until expression has heen given to theii profound sense of the loss, sustained by the Sooiety, in the death of Mr. Eoberi Furley, of Ashford. •xr ^i s History of the Weald of Kent remains to us a mine of information foi Kentish Antiquaries of future generations, and a monument of Mr. Furley'i painstaking research. Nevertheless the members of this Sooiety will sadly mis his .genial presence and his hearty voice, whioh had become so familiar to them a their Annual Meetings. With satisfaction we may now recall the faot, that a Mr. hurleys last appearance amongst us, he occupied the place of highes honour; he presided over every portion of our Meeting at Tunbridge last year All will unite m regret for his loss. Since our last Meeting, excavations have heen made outside the walls of th •Boman Castrum at Riehborough, at the Sooiety's expense. Mr. George Dowke ably directed the work, and Mr. Murrell kindly acted as overseer of the worls men. Many matters of interest were found, hut no important discovery wa REPORT, 1888. xliii On the 28th of December 1887, the earliest copies of the 17th Volume of Archceologia Cantiana were presented to the Council at their Meeting. The circulation of copies among all the members immediately followed. Containing 474 pages of printed matter, and 55 Illustrations, this volume has been con- sidered to he not unworthy of its predecessors. 985 copies of it were printed and bound, at a cost of £527, and nearly the whole of that cost was defrayed during the year 1887. Three sheets of matter for the 18th Volume are already in type, but it is not proposed to issue that Volume until next summer. The Society began the year 1887 with £697 :16 :1 at its Bankers. The income of that year was £380 : 7 : 6. During 1887 we expended £509 upon our 17th Volume; we invested £80 in Consols; we spent £26 upon exoavations at Riehborough: our Maidstone Rooms and their Curator cost us £50 per annum; and all the other working expenses of the year amounted to £44. So that on the 31st of December 1887 the Society had £369 at its Bankers. At that time the Society's invested Capital derived from Life Compositions was £985; hut since the 1st of January 1888 an additional sum of -£25 has been invested, so that at the time of this Annual Meeting the Sooiety possesses £1010 invested in Consols. Under the old system of the 3 per cents, the income from this sum would be £30 : 6 : 0 per annum; but the entire reduction sanctioned by Parliament will oause our Capital to produce only £25 : 5 : 0. The Council has determined, therefore, to ask this meeting to sanction the increase of the amount of Composition for Life Membership to £6. That sum invested in Consols will eventually, at 2J per cent., yield to the Society 3s. per annum; whioh is the exact sum hitherto derived by the Sooiety from £5 invested at 3 per cent. The Council desires also to obtain the opinion of this Annual Meeting with respect to a General Index to the Volumes of Archceologia Cantiana. Probably none will deny that such an Index is necessary. The difficulty arises when we consider how many copies of it shall be printed. The number of pages to be indexed will he about 7000. Experts tell us that our Index ought therefore to occupy between 400 and 600 pages of matter printed in double columns. The similar Index of the Sussex Society occupies 423 pages. If only 50 or 100 copies were printed the cost of each would be as muoh as 3 or 4 years' subscription to the Society. On the other hand, if the Index were printed for every Member, like au ordinary Volume of the Society's Transactions, each member would obtain- a copy of it without any extra subscription. Our Printers estimate the total cost of compiling, printing, aud binding such an edition of the Index at about £380. For their 31st Annual Meeting the members of our Society have assembled in the anoient Cmque Port of Hythe, where they were cordially received 26 years ago, on the 10th of July 1862. The members of the Council rejoice to say that after the lapse of so many years, the Society has again the advantage of being weloomed and assisted by the same efficient colleague, Mr. Maokeson, whose exertions made the former Meeting at Hythe so successful They .know that he has done much for the preservation of the various Records that elucidate the History of this anoient town, and they congratulate him _ upon finding in the worthy Town Clerk, Mr. Wilks, a colleague who is continuing Mr. Mackeson's work of elucidating the local History and of pro- moting our Society's welfare. We thank them both for their effective efforts to make this Meeting a success. On the motion of the Very Eeverend the Dean of Canterbury seconded by the Eev. Canon the Honorable "W, H. Fremantle, it was resolved: " That the Report-as read le adopted" xllV PROCEEDINGS, 1888. It was moved by H. B. Mackeson, Esq., J.P., seconded by Frederick "W. Porter, Esq., J.P., and carried:— " That George Willes, Fsg., Town Olerh of Hythe, be elected a member of the Oouncil, and that the retiring members of Oouncil and the Auditors be re-elected." It was moved by Gr. E. Hannam, Esq., J.P., seconded by the Venerable B. F. Smith, Archdeacon of Maidstone, and carried:— " That the amount of Composition for Life Membership shall henceforth be £6; and that in Rule 9 this sum be substituted for £5." It was moved by the Lord Bishop of Dover, seconded by the Eev. Canon. Scott Eobertson, and carried:— "That a General Index to the Volumes of AucnaiOiiOGiA CAOTOXAETA shall be prepared; and that this shall be issued (during the year 1890, if possible) to all members of the Society, like an ordinary volume of Archceologia Canticma." Seventeen candidates were elected members of the Society. This concluded tbe business of the Meeting, and the Members then proceeded to the Church of St.