of their owners, no account is here given, as a second edition of the catalogue of the museum, with many additions and corrections, will be published in the forthcoming volume of Prceedings.
Thursday, September 11.
In the morning a meeting of the Historical Section took place in the Nisi Prius Court, County Hall, President, H. Hallam, Esq., who delivered a brief address, pointing out the province of the section, and distinguishing it from the other two sections of the Association. Mr. Hallam further observed that there were some defects which belonged to the English historical school, but that its distinctive character was remarkable accuracy, arising from the patient and business-like habits of the people, and producing a more just appreciation of evidence than is usual among our continental neighbours. He hoped that in the progress of the Association a more enlarged view would be taken of the objects of this study.
The following Papers were then read:—
On the ancient Palace at Winchester, and Arthur's Round Table, by E. Smirke, Esq., shewing that the present County Hall in which this Section was then holding its Meeting was the Hall of that Palace.
On Anglo-Saxon names, surnames and nicknames, by J. M. Kemble, Esq.
After which T. Hudson Turner, Esq. gave a short account of the ancient Fair of St. Giles in the city of Winchester.
The Section of Early and Mediæval Antiquities met in the Crown Court in the County Hall, President, W. R. Hamilton, Esq., when the Dean of Hereford gave an account of some Roman remains recently discovered at Kenchester, or Magna Castra, near Hereford.
E. P. Shirley, Esq., M. P., gave a description of some Irish Antiquities discovered in a Crannoge, or wooden house, on an artificial island in a lake in the county of Monaghan, which were exhibited at the meeting.
Albert Way, Esq., read a letter from Sir S. R. Meyrick explanatory of a curious missile weapon laid before the meeting.
The following Papers were then read:—
On some Ancient British, Romano-British, and Roman Sepulchral Remains, discovered in the neighbourhood of Rugby in Warwickshire, by M. H. Bloxam, Esq.
On some Encaustic Pavements in Churches in Devonshire, by the Lord Alwyn Compton.
On a Decorative Pavement of Encaustic Tiles formerly existing in Jervaulx Abbey, York, by the Rev. John Ward.
The President and a large party, on quitting the County Hall, inspected the sallyport and subterranean works which had been opened expressly for the occasion, and lighted up by the kindness of Mr. Brown, the proprietor, consisting of a portion of the passage of descent from the keep, or chief portion of the stronghold above, which gave access to a sort of vestibule or small chamber, whence proceeded passages of descent to the exterior moat,
