It cannot but be in the recollection of this learned Society, that an account of a Roman Horologium, the only one then supposed to be existing, was given in a Letter from the late Beaupré Bell, Esq. to the late Roger Gale, Esq. and published in the Archæologia, Vol. VI. p. 133. It appears to have been a solar dial fixed at some station near Taloire or Annecy, protected by a building, and that building guarded by a fence or palisade, and attended by an officer, or servant, to give notice of the hours. Mr. Gale has collected, and this inscription furnishes, many curious particulars respecting this instrument for measuring time; compared to which the simplest and rudest modern clock, or even the first contrived clock, would be a wonderful machine.

As the Society of Antiquaries formerly thought proper to present to the public a print of the very elegant marble font in St. James's church, Westminster, and another of the famous Bridekirk font, to which many more of the like kind have been added by various authors; I beg leave to bring forward for your inspection and amusement, a drawing, which I believe to be very accurately made, by a young gentleman, of a most curious and singular antient laver, appearing now in the parish church of Burnham-Deepdale in Norfolk.

The two drawings which accompany this paper represent the general view and four sides of a singular and very antient font in the church of East Meon in Hampshire.

The two villages of the name of Meon now distinguished by East and West, were in the Confessor and Conqueror's time, known by the general name of Mene or Menes, and gave their name to this hundred.

I send herewith an abstract of what I take to be the most material passages in my collections heretofore concerning fonts. Indeed I am almost ashamed to lay them before you; but either the subject is very barren, or I have been very unfortunate in my searches, particularly I have not met with any authentic account of the pedestal or foundation of the font, and very little concerning the cover or superstructure, Mr. Newcourt, in his account of Allhallows, Barking, (I. 249.) mentions a cross over the font, and some images or pictures over the canopy thereof, a petition to the bishop, and hearing concerning them before his chancellor Dr. Duck, and an order for taking them down, and setting up other ornaments in their stead. Perhaps the records in this proceeding may afford you greater light than the tedious narrative in the inclosed. I shall be glad to hear the result of your maturer thoughts on this subject; shall hope to see you in a short time.

Before I enter upon an inquiry into the authenticity of this Charter, it may be proper to premise, that Saint Etheldreda, one of the daughters of king Anna, and wife, first to Tonbert, prince of the southern Gervii, and afterwards to Egfrid, king of Northumberland, is reported to have founded at Ely, about the year 673, a religious society both for monks and nuns, who lived together under the government of an abbess. In this state the society continued till the year 870, when it was destroyed by the Danes.

Pursuant to your request, I give you my opinion on the authenticity of your Charter of king Edgar, which you supposed to have had a seal.

One of the first lists of our crown jewels is contained in the letter of Margaret queen of France to her brother Henry III. of England, dated 1261, when they were lodged in the church of the knights templars at Paris, which the said king gave his queen Eleanor power to dispose of, 1264.

I am much obliged to you for having exhibited to our Society the drawing made by Mr. Fisher of certain stalls now remaining on the south side of the chancel of Maidstone church. But previous to my stating the supposed time of their construction, with such an illustration of them as may be thought requisite, I will offer some general observations relative to similar seats that are still to be seen in parochial as well as cathedral and collegiate churches.

Some observations by the late Mr. Wells on the stalls exhibited in Vetusta Monumenta, not coinciding with the remarks that accompanied the drawing of the stalls in Maidstone church presented by me to the Society; I have judged it expedient to revise my letter to Mr. Gough, with the view of retracting my surmises, had I found them entirely groundless: but after deliberately examining the two papers, and I trust without a bias of prejudice to my own, I must confess I do not see reason to alter my sentiments. Before I consider the observations of this ingenious gentleman, I cannot forbear expressing a regret that our body should be deprived of a member, not long enrolled in our list, whose zealous ardour for researches into subjects of antiquity, assiduously pursued from an early part of life, so properly qualified him to answer the purposes of our institution.

Having visited the remains of Roman antiquity lately discovered at Bath, I beg leave to present to the Society the following account of them.

The remains in question were brought to light by digging the foundation of a new pump room and baths between the present pump room and Stall-street.

It has been observed concerning this curious window, that there was some difficulty in ascertaining which of the figures might be intended for Becket. But as the central portrait in the upper compartment is alone ornamented with a mitre, it is, I think, justly remarked at p. 368, of the IXth Volume of Archæologia, that it was probably designed for the primate. The words under the lower middle figure might occasion a doubt, it being drawn in a military habiliment, and not differing in the least from the figures in the side pannels declared to be those of the murderers of the archbishop. However, as I imagine, Martim Thomæ signifies, in general, that the martyrdom of Thomas is the subject of this relick of antiquity, which obviously exhibits persons rather than things. For not a single trait of the murderous act is displayed; and without the inscriptions it might long have remained uncertain to what historical occurrence this coloured glass alluded.

The drawings which accompany this exhibit an antient sepulture discovered and dug up about three or four feet below the surface of an open field half a mile due east of the east gate of the antient Lindum.

Orwell is a river in Suffolk, arising a little to the west of Rattlesdon. It takes in the Gipping a little below Stow, runs by Needham Market and Ipswich, and joining the Stour, that separates Suffolk from Essex at Harwich, forms what is now called Harwich harbour; then passing by Languard fort, and the sand called the Andrews, it discharges itself into the ocean; at the mouth whereof we have strong reasons to suppose there formerly was a very considerable town that took its name from the river, in all probability, and gave its name to Orwell harbour.

The inclosed paper was drawn up at a time when the subject engaged a more general attention among the learned, as long ago as the year 1748, and then designed to have been presented to your lordship's predecessor at the Royal Society, Mr. Folkes, to whom I had the honour of being well known; but, upon my being seized with an afflicting and long illness, which for some years disabled me for all literary enquiries, it lay by forgotten, till a gentleman's shewing some old dates at the Society of Antiquaries, when I was last in town, the memory of it recurred, and my inclination was awakened to search for it.

Since I had the honour of transmitting to you a description of some remains of Roman works on Sherwood Forest, I have met with a considerable, part of a very large camp, which probably contained the main body of the Roman army; it is, therefore, I think well worthy of notice.

The martyrdom of Thomas Becket is thus represented on a seal appendant to the following deed of Barnwell priory, in my possesion, being an acknowledgement of the receipt from the rector of Granchester of a moiety of the tenth laid on the clergy, 6 R. II.

The date of this charter, the 13th of Henry III. 1229, is between 1217, when Henry III. began his reign, and 1246, when Walter Mauclere, bishop of Carlisle, one of the subscribing bishops, died.

All that capitall messuage, manor, or mancion house, with the appurtenances, commonly called Wimbledon hall, scytuate, lying, and being in the towne and parish of Wymbledon, in the county of Surrey, consisting of one spatious kitchen, seeled over head to the roofe, paved with free stone well joynted, fitted with two large ranges, two dressers one sidebord, one copper boyler leaded round the mouth thereof, one stone morter, one large gridiron fixed to the wall, one stone cestern and two brass cocks for houlding and conveyance of water, one pastrie roome paved with brickes and sealed to the roofe, fitted with a boulting mill, a kneading trough, a moulding board, a double bynne, and a range with severall large ovens; one drie larder paved with brickes and seeled over head, sitted with a press of deale waynscot, three standing boardes upon frames, and one mustard querne; one wett larder paved with bricks, seeled over head, fitted with a salting trough, a chopping block, a stand and tresses, a beame and scales; one fait roome sitted with a great bynne for keeping of salt; landrie roome seeled over head, paved with stone, fitted with a very large cesterne of lead sett in a frame of wood, and a verie sayer range, wherein is a strong barr of iron.

During my residence in India, I was stationed for several years at Madura, on the Coromandel coast, about three hundred miles from Fort St. George, and about seventy miles from the sea.