The occasion that brings us together this morning might have been observed no less fittingly in Oxford or at Winchester. But Nowell Myres was above all—all through his long life—an antiquary: and St James's is the parish church ofthe Antiquaries, of the ‘Old Lady of Burlington House’, whom so many of us revere and serve, as Nowell did with such conspicuous distinction through a Fellowship that lasted all but sixty years. So it is good for us to be here.