the Emperor Nerva, a.d. 96.
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The notes on East London Antiquities, which
have been appearing in the East London Advertiser,
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ANTIQ UARIAN NE IVS.
are to be reprinted in monthly parts of i6 quarto
pages, at 6a. per copy. Among the contributors
are well-known antiquaries, such as Mr. J. T.
Page, Colonel Prideaux, Major Baldock, and Mr.
Harland Oxlev- Those who wish to secure copies
should send their names to the publisher of the
Advertiser, 321, Mile End Road, E.
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SALE.
Messrs. Sotheby. Wilkinson and Hodge sold
on Monday and Tuesday, the 26th and 27th ult.,
books and MSS. from the collection of the late
Mr. Newnham Davis. The following were the
most remarkable : Juliana Barnes's Booke of
Haukyng, Huntyng, etc., W. Copland, n.d., 39;
Directorium Humanse Vitae, Bidpay or Pilpay,
first edition in L&tin, circa 1484, ^24; Brathwait's
Art Asleepe Husband ? and The Two Lancashire
Lovers, first editions, 1640, 50 ; Brant's Ship of
Fooles, by Barclay, second edition, 1570, ;f 20 los. ;
Breviarium Romanum, MS. on vellum, Saec. XIV.,
;f55 ; Breviarium secundum Usum Sarum, printed
at the expense of Margaret, mother of Henry VIL,
on vellum, with the date in the colophon, which
was not hitherto known, August 25, 1507, 175 ;
Breydenbach, Peregrinationes ad Montem Sion,
etc., first Latin edition, with the original woodcuts
intact, i486, /60 ; Petrus Carmelianus, Poet
Laureate to King Henry VIL, Carmen (relating to
the proposed marriage of Mary, third daughter of
Henry VIL, to Charles, son of the Emperor Maxi-
milian, afterwards the Emperor Charles V.), on
vellum, the only other copy known being the
Grenville in the British Museum., R. Pynson, circa
1514, 160; the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of
Fr. de Columna, first edition, Venet., Aldus, 1499,
^78 ; Thomas Decker's Satiro-Mastix, 1602, 95:
The Dead Tearme, or Westminster's Complaint for
Long Vacations, etc., 1608, 31', Dictes and Say-
ings, Wynkin de Worde, 1528, /35 ; B. Glanville,
De Proprietatibus Rerum, Englished by John of
Trevisa, first edition, a very fine copy, wanting a
blank leaf only and having a few leaves mended,
W. de Worde, 1496, /212 : St. Jerome's Epistles
in Italian, by Matheo da Ferraro (slightly imper-
fect), Ferrara, 1497, /40 ; Horae B.V.M., illumin-
ated MS. on vellum (French), 18 fine miniatures,
Saec. XV., /270 ; another, on vellum, with minia-
tures, Saec. XV., 1^5; a Sarum Book of Hours,
MS. on vellum, Latin and English, 12 miniatures,
Saec. XV., /80; G. Hormanni Vulgaria (Latino-
Anglica), W. de Worde, 1530, 2^ ; Hortus Sani-
tatis, first French translation, Verard, circa 1501,
6g; Josephus, Antiquitates Judaeorum, MS.,
tenth century, on vellum, ^69 ; Littleton's Tenures
(Latin), the first edition and the first book issued
by Lettou and Machlinia in the City of London,
circa 1482, ;t40o; Le Manuel des Dames, Paris,
Verard, s.d., /loo; Historia B. Virginis Meiriae,
53 woodcuts. Absque nota, ;^39 ; Massinger's lost
play," Beleeve as You List," 1631, the original
MS., from which the play was first edited by the
Percy Society in 1849, /69 ; Mercurius Britannicus
(Parliamentary Newspaper), complete, 1643-45,
/39 ; Meschinot, Les Lunettes des Princes, Paris,
J. du Pre. circa 1496, ;^3o; a collection of ten
Ancient Illuminated Miniatures, cut from Service
Books, 106 ; Missale Maguntinense, P. Schceffer.
1483. ^38; Missale Romanum. MS. with illumin-
ated borders. Saec. XV.. ^49; Officium B.V.M..
etc., MS. on vellum, illuminated, Saec. XV., ;f 139 ;
Processionale Sarisburiense, Lond., 1554, 32; Jo.
de Thwrocz, Chronica Hungarica, first edition,
1488, 65 ; Der Ritter von Thurn, Basel, 1493,
41 ; George Whetstone's Mirrour for Magistrates
of Cities, etc., 1584, ^22. Total of two days' sale,
/4,i68 I2S. 6d. Athenaiim, December 1.
PUBLICATIONS OF ARCHiEOLOGICAL
SOCIETIES.
The Transactions of the Glasgow A rchaological Society,
New Series, vol. iv., part i., have reached us.
Archbishop Eyre, the president of the society,
contributes a forcible address, pleading for the
" Preservation of Scottish Ecclesiastical Monu-
ments," and also a short paper on "The Seal
of InchafFray," illustrated by an admirable plate
of the seal. "The Seals of the University of
Glasgow," with an excellent illustrative plate, are
described by Mr. G. W. Campbell. Mrs. Frances
Murray has a curious and most interesting subject,
very quaintly illustrated, in " Painted Wall Cloths
in Sweden." which shows how painted tapestry or
cloths such as were used in these islands in Eliza-
bethan times Falstaff speaks of his recruits as
being " as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth "
were employed by the peasants in some parts of
Sweden as wall-coverings until comparatively re-
cent days. The other contents of a well printed and
well illustrated part include " Notice of Armour
and Arms at Eglinton Castle. Three Scottish
Swords, etc.." by Mr. R. Brydall ; " Note on the
Church of Saint Kentigema. Inchcailleach, Loch
Lomond." by the Rev. W. H. Macleod ; " The Old
Lands of Partick. and the Mill thereof." by Mr.
James White; "Notes on Two Copies of the
Solemn League and Covenant preserved in the
Hunterian Museum of the Glasgow University,"
by Professor Young and Mr. W. I. Addison ;
" The Inscriptions on the Distance-Slabs of the
Vallum or Wall of Antoninus Pius." by Dr. James
Macdonald ; the fourth supplement to Dr. John
Ferguson's ' ' Bibliographical Notes on Histories
of Inventions and Books of Secrets"; and "The
Old Church of St. Kentigern, Lanark," by Mr.
Hugh Davidson.
^ ^ ^
We have received the Transactions of the Hull
Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club for 1900 (vol. i.,
No. iii), edited by T. Sheppard, F.G.S., and
J. R. Boyle, F.S.A. Every article, we are glad
to see, refers to matters and subjects of local
interest, and the whole volume testifies to much
good and careful work done by members of the
club. Among the more strictly archaeological
contents are Mr. Sheppard's interesting and in-
structive study of " Prehistoric Man in Holder-
ness"; the same writer's careful notes on various
bronze weapons and on a Roman vase all found
in the district ; and a facsimile and transcript by
ANTIQUARIAN NEWS.
27
Mr. J. R. Boyle, F.S.A., of " A Haltemprice Docu-
ment," viz., a receipt for ^4 6s. 8d. for tithe corn
paid in 1535 or 1536, which is the only document
known to be in existence that was actually written
by an inmate of the old priory at Haltemprice.
There are also many papers of interest to geologists
and naturalists on subjects which do not come
within our purview. The book is sold to non-
members by Messrs. A. Brown and Sons, Savile
Street, Hull, at the price of 2s. net decidedly a
low price considering the value of the contents.
O^ ^ <^
The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of
Ireland for the quarter ending September 30, 1900
(part iii., vol. x.), is also to hand. The principal
paper is a very full "Account of the Excavation
of Two Lake - Dwellings in the Neighbourhood
of Clones," by Dr. S. A. D'Arcy. It is interest-
ing to note that in the foundations of one cran-
nog were found extremely large and thoroughly
sound logs of black oak chopped into convenient
lengths. There were also some trunks of yew-
trees of great size in a splendid state of preser-
vation. The relics found were very numerous, and
excellent illustrative drawings are given. Mr. T. J.
Westropp describes " The Clog an Oir, or Bell
Shrine of Scattery"; Mr. James Mills gives " Six-
teenth-Century Notices of the Chapels and Crypts
of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin," better
known now as Christ Church Cathedral, merci-
lessly "restored" years ago; and Mr. J. C.
Buckley sends "Notes on Boundary Crosses."
Short notes on a variety of subjects, an account of
the society's excursions, and other miscellanea,
complete a capital and well-illustrated part.
.^ ^ o^
Part iii. of the Transactions of the Shropshire Archa-
ological Society for the current year, recently issued
to members, contains these papers: "On Two
Rectors of Whitchurch," by the Hon and Rev.
G. H. F. Vane; "The Church Goods of Shrop-
shire, temp. Edward VI.," and "The Church-
wardens' Accounts of Uffington, 1627-1693," by
the Rev. V/. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A. There are
also an Index of the Papers published in the first
twenty-three volumes of the Transactions (1878-1900)
and an Index of Authors. Ecclesiologists should
note that in the present volume the whole of the
Edwardian Inventories of Church Goods relating
to Shropshire have been printed. The part also
contains an Index Locorum, a Glossary of Words
used in the Inventories, and some capital notes
on the Inventories themselves and on the Lich-
field and Hereford Sequences of Colome.
PROCEEDINGS OF ARCHiEOLOGICAL
SOCIETIES.
SociETvoF Antiquaries. November 2g. Viscount
Dillon, president, in the chair. Mr. R. C. Clephan
and Colonel Hennell were admitted Fellows.
The Earl of Halsbury, Lord Chancellor of England,
and the Hon. Alban Gibbs, M.P., were elected
Fellows under the statutes, cap. i., sec. v. Mr.
C. H. Read, secretary, gave a new interpretation
of the use of the well-known object in the British
Museum called the Mold corslet. Mr. Read had it
recently mounted on a copper plate, so as to restore
it to its original form and proportions. From the
time it had come into the Museum in the year 1835
until now no attempt had been made to reconstitute
it. As soon, however, as each piece fell into its
proper place and the real size and shape of the
object became apparent, it was clear, both from
the proportions and the shape, that it could not
have been intended for a man. Mr. Read ex-
plained, by means of a lantern-slide, the difficulties
in the way of such a supposition, and stated his
belief that it was intended for the covering for the
chest of a horse, viz., a poitrail or peytral {anglice,
a brunt, according to the president), such as was
not uncommonly found in the heavy plate armour
for horses in the sixteenth century. Mr. Read's
opinion that the " corslet " belonged to the end of
the Bronze Age, or even to the beginning of the
succeeding Iron Age, was disputed by Sir Henry
Howorth, and a fine bronze shield from the
society's collection was produced in support of Mr.
Read's contention. Mr. W. H. St. John Hope read
an account of recent excavations on the site of
St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, with special
reference to the early Saxon church of St. Pancras.
Athenceum, December 8.
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British Arch^ological Association. Novem-
ber 21. Mr. C. H. Compton, vice-president, in the
chair. The Rev. H. J. D. Astley read an interest-
ing resume of the proceedings of the recent congress
at Leicester, which will be published in the journal
in due course. Mr. Astley also read "Notes on
the Mound Dwellings of Auchingaich," by Mr.
W. A. Donnelly. The locality of these mounds is
in the north-west corner of Dumbartonshire, in that
picturesque and mountainous belt which runs
between Loch Lomond and the Gareloch on the
Auchingaich, one of the highest tributaries of the
Fruin Water. These mounds first attract attention
from their colour, as well as from their configura-
tion, the turf on their hillock surfaces being gener-
ally of a deeper green, and their outlines suggesting
a more monotonous repetition of contour than is
found in any natural configuration of landscape.
They are grouped together in clusters of three and
four or half a dozen, almost touching one another
as a matter of fact, many do touch each other ;
they form a border to a quadrangular space about
100 yards square to the number of over forty. The
mounds are all more or less circular in shape,
standing about 5 feet high at the highest, but more
often not more than 3 feet 6 inches above the level
of the natural hillside, and present a remarkable
similarity to the homes of the beaver. Further off,
on the right bank of the Auchingaich, Mr. Donnelly
discovered another group, about 100 yards up the
mountain-side, of some seventeen or twenty more
similar mounds. Excavations were made in some
of them, which disclosed the existence of boulder-
built walls, rude and strong, each mound having a
narrow doorway, with the jambs invariably in their
original position, but the lintels displaced, and in
two instances lying on the doorstep. The general
characteristics of these mounds suggest the idea of
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their having been the homes of an early pigmy
race. In the discussion following the paper, the
chairman. Mr Rayson. Mr. Folkard. Rev. H. J. D.
Astley. and others, took part. Various opinions
were expressed as to the probable value of t!ie
discovery, but all were agreed in attributing the
construction of the mounds to human hands, but
by whom, for what purpose, and at what period,
they were constructed, it is impossible to say with
the data at present furnished. Further exploration,
which will be undertaken in due course, may en-
able archaeologists to arrive at a definite conclusion.
^' -^ -^
Glasgow Arch.eological Society. The annual
general meeting was held in November. Mr.
George Neilson, F.S.A. Scot., presided, and there
was a large attendance. The annual report of the
council was submitted. The report of the society's
committee on the investigations on the line of the
Antonine Wall, which was issued during the course
of last session, had met with a most favourable
reception from scholars at home and abroad. The
council recorded with regret the death of the
Marquis of Hute, who for many years took a lively
interest in the work of the society, and also the
death of Dr. James Macdonald, who from the date
of his l)ecoming a member of the society, in 1884,
had taken a warm interest in promoting its pros-
perity and usefulness. The council had received
intimation of the resignation of Archbishop Eyre of
the office of president of the society, and had
passed a resolution expressing their appreciation
of his valuable researches and his splendid services
to the society. On the motion of the chairman,
the report was adopted. Thereafter Mr. J. Romilly
Allen, F.S.\., delivered a lecture on "Early
Christian Monuments of the Glasgow District."
He dealt with the number of the monuments, their
geographical distribution, their decorative features,
the object of their erection, and their age. He
divided the monuments into three groups an
earlier group, which were more near to the Celtic
pagan ; a later group, which were more allied to
the Norman influence ; and a middle group, show-
ing the Scandinavian influence of the Viking
invasion.
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A meeting of the Royal Society of Antiquaries
OF Ireland was held at No 6, St. Stephen's
Green, Dublin, on November 27. Professor
Wright. M.A., M.D., presided. In the absence
of the vice-president, Mr. Robert Day, J. P., a
paper written by that gentleman was read by the
chairman, the subject being, " A Gold Medal pre-
sented to the DubHn Independent Volunteers, 1781,
by Colonel Henry Grattan, and another of the same
character, connected with the Dundalk Artillery ;
also a Co. Meath Gold Medal. ' ' Lord Walter Fitz-
gerald, M.R.I. A. (vice-president), read a paper on
' The Effigy of King Felim O' Conor in Ros-
common Abbey, and the Altar-tomb it rests on."
A third paper, on " The Antiquities of Caher Island,
Co. Mayo," was read by Mr. T. W. Rolleston.
^ ^ ^
The Sussex ARciLtoLOGicAL Society held a meet-
ing at Midhurst on November 27. Colonel Hollist
presiding. Mr. Philip M. Johnston, who lectured
on behalf of the society, first gave a description of
some of the interesting mural paintings still pre-
served in old Sussex churches, his remarks being
illustrated by cartoons and drawings hung round
the room. These represented mediaeval art from
the eleventh to the sixteenth century, the most
interesting paintings, perhaps, being those dis-
covered on the walls of Hardham Church. He
then proceeded to describe various features of
special interest in some of the churches and other
buildings in West Sussex, with reference particu-
larly to the long-forgotten use of " low side
windows," and the existence in ancient times of
anchorites' cells. This part of the lecture was
illustrated by a series of lantern-slides, from Mr.
Johnston's own photographs and drawings. Mr.
J. Lewis Andre, F.S.A., afterwards gave a short
impromptu address on some points of antiquarian
interest in the district.
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A meeting of the Newcastle Society of Anti-
quaries was held on November 28, Mr. R. Welford
in the chair. The chairman read a note on the
name of Arthur's Hill, Newcastle. He said the
letter of Mr. Thomas Arthur read at the last meet-
ing, suggesting that the village owed its name to an
ancestor of his, Isaac Arthur, who built it, con-
tained an element of probability which seemed to
invite further inquiry. That inquiry had been
made, and it was not favourable to Mr. Arthur's
contention. Let them seriously consider the state-
ment of Dr. Bruce, which remained unchallenged
for nearly forty years that Mr. Isaac Cookson,
the owner of land described as a quarry-field, gave
the village of stone houses which he erected the
name of his son Arthur. Mr. Isaac Cookson had
undoubtedly a son of that name. Dr. Bruce was a
young man of twenty or more at the time, and it
might be assumed that he knew perfectly well what
he was talking about. Mr. Cookson called the
hill after his son Arthur, and the first three streets
after his remaining three sons Edward, John,
and William. It was named Arthur Hill on
Oliver's plan, but, just as Bulman village became
Bulman's village, popular custom transformed it
into Arthur's Hill.
^ ^ ^^
At the meeting of the Society of Biblical
Archeology, held on December 12, a paper by
Mr. F. Legge, on " The Names of Demons in the
Magic Papyri," was read.
Eetiietos anD jf^otices
of Ji3eU) TBoofes.
[Publishers are requested to be so good as always to
mark clearly the prices of books sent for review, as
these notices are intended to be a prcutical aid to
book-buying readers.'^
Chartres: Its Cathedral and Churches. By
H. J. L. J. Masse, M.A. With forty-seven
illustrations. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1900.
Crown 8vo., pp. viii, 120. Price 2s. 6d.
It was a happy thought which prompted Messrs.
Bell to extend their mosl interesting and useful
REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
29
"Cathedral Series" of handbooks to the great
cathedral and other churches of the Continent.
Chartres the volume before us is the initial issue
of this Continental series, and we are already
promised similar monographs on Rouen and
Notre Dame, Paris, in turn.
As the prime object of these books is to instruct
the student as well as aid the tourist to understand
what he sees, we would suggest that in future
editions of this volume, and those which are to
follow, the Latin and other foreign extracts (pp. 4,
8, II, 12, 75, etc.) should be accompanied by an
English translation, that the ordinary reader may
at least arrive at the gist of what the author means
to convey. The paragraphs relating to the poly-
chromatic art on pages 23, 48, 60, should be
brought a little more into harmony, as " a system
of painting utterly at variance with the spirit of
any Gothic cathedral" seems a little beside the
mark when we know how extravagantly the
mediaeval architect used this method of decora-
tion, with the object not alone to take away the
cold, monotonous whiteness of the stone and pre-
serve it, but also to develop the beauty and bring
out to perfection the proportions of the building,
as may be seen in the Royal Westminster tombs,
the chapter- house doorway, and the lovely Lady
Chapel at Ely, which Bishop Simon de Montacute,
unable to complete before his death, left as a
precious bequest to a monk, confident that he
would carry out the work to the accomplishment
of his heart's desire. The suggested allusion to the
Vierge aux Miracles as "Nigra sum sed formosa "
(p. 86 note) may be better explained in the words
of Tursellino on the venerable image, of Our Lady
of Loreto : "Her face is varnished with amber
giving a silver gloss, but darkened with the smoke
of lights, yet this very darkening (a token of anti-
quity and religion) doth exceedingly increase the
majesty of her virginall countenance" {History of
Our Blessed Lady of Loreto, 1608, pp. 15, 16), or by
the Black (silver) Rood of Scotland reverenced at
Durham Wo^rA with the smoke of the many votive
tapers continuously burning before it. The print
of the fabric of the veil of Byzantine work might
fittingly have been accompanied by the portions of
the shrouds of SS. Savinian and Potentian the
missionaries who sent Chartres its first bishops,
Altin and Eodald preserved at Sens. The book
is lavishly illustrated by a large number of beautiful
" half-tones."
We might suggest to our enterprising publishers
the bringing out of an extra volume on this gem
among cathedrals, dealing exclusively with the
wonderful carvings which encrust the venerable
structure on every part truly a Bible, the Bible
of Chartres in stone. For the rest the name of
the author of Gloucester and Tewkesbury is a
guarantee for the excellence of the work.
* * 3C
The Story of Alfred the Great. Told by
Walter Hawkins and Edward Thornton Smith.
With ten illustrations. London : Horace Mar-
shall and Son, 1900. Pp. viii, 142. Price 2s. 6d.
This little book sets out the story of Alfred the
Great ^' for the general reader who has no time for
research, and the youthful reader who hats no
interest in it." In ten well-arranged chapters it
describes the career and works of the great King,
and the well-known record is given with some
vividness, and in a simple and direct style of good
English prose which is welcome in these days of
books too hastily prepared. The authors assure
their readers that, though the pages are not en-
cumbered with footnotes and references to authori-
ties, yet the authorities have been consulted ; and
it is evident that the sketch which they give is
based upon a large amount of scholarly research,
and so is, upon the whole, a trustworthy account.
At the same time we are bound to take the test
which they offer of "accuracy" and "careful
verification," and we find a few slips in detail
which the present condition of " Alfred literature"
should have obviated. For instance, Asser's
account is so clear that there is no reason (at
p. 10) for attributing to Osburgha and not to
Judith Alfred's early lessons in letters. We doubt,
subject to correction, the alleged policy (at p. 13)
of Swithun "in keeping the Saxon court and St.
Peter's on close terms of intimacy "; the traces of
any such European relation are of the scantiest
kind. The Alfred jewel is preserved (at p. 57), not
in the Bodleian Library, but in the new Ashmolean
Museum at Oxford. On pp. 26, 34, and 140, we
note trivial misprints for " covvardlily," "woeful,"
and "fitful." But these slight flaws apart, we
commend the volume as a popular story-book
about the greatest of English Kings, which is
certainly a great advance in style and carefulness
upon other books of its own kind. The authors,
steering between strict truth and a very proper
sentiment, seem to have hit the right mean in their
exposition of those justly popular stories which
adorn the fame of Alfred. The few photographic
views of scenes connected with Alfred's career are
also happily chosen, though we are bound to say
that there are particular spots at Winchester which
could be more usefully shown than the bird's-eye
view of the modern city given at p. 133. There is
still room for a book illustrated, as modern ways
and means readily allow, with pictures and figures
of scenes and relics more intimately connected with
Alfred's time. The closing chapter, with its esti-
mate of the King's character, is as true as it is
eloquent ; in terms of very just enthusiasm it
claims that the story reveals "the most perfect
character in our annals. It blends so many virtues
in exquisite accord." The appeal of the authors
to Englishmen to make reversion to Alfred's type
their patriotic aim is wise and timely.
* * Jfc
The Book of John Fisher, Town Clerk and
Deputy Recorder of Warwick (1580 -1588).
Transcribed and Edited by Thomas Kemp.
With Preface by the Hon. A. Lyttleton, Q.C.,
MP. Warwick: H. T. Cooke and Sons. 4to.,
pp. XV, 216. Price not stated.
The Corporation of Warwick are fortunate in
the possession of this "Book of John Fisher,"
which Mr. Kemp with commendable care and
painstaking industry has now made accessible to