The Rev. E. L. Barnwell having made some comments on the criticism upon Mr. Fergusson's book, embodied in the Report;[1] its adoption was moved by the Rev. J. Lee Warner, seconded by Mr. Crabbe, and carried unanimously.
The Rev. J. Lee Warner made some remarks upon the satisfactory prospects of the General Index to the Journal, and then the subject of the place for the Annual Meeting in 1873 was brought forward.
Mr. Burtt stated that invitations had been some time since received from Glasgow, Leeds, and Exeter, and a deputation was then in attendance from the latter place, to support the recommendation that the meeting for 1873 should be held in that city. At the suggestion of the Bishop of Winchester (who then occupied the chair). Alderman Gidley, of Exeter, was introduced. He submitted to the meeting a resolution of the Town Council of Exeter, repeating the invitation for the Institute to meet in that city, speaking of its many claims upon the members, and assuring them of a hearty welcome. The Mayor of Exeter had fully intended to have joined in the deputation, but had been prevented by indisposition. After some discussion, the Rev. Canon Meade proposed that Exeter be the place for holding the annual meeting in 1873. This was seconded by Mr. J. H. Parker, C.B., and carried unanimously. Mr. Spiers suggested that the consideration of the claims of Dublin as a place for the meeting of the Institute should not be longer deferred. Mr. Burtt assured the members that Lord Talbot had always been consulted with reference to the place of meeting, and he had not as yet recommended Dublin. A vote of thanks having been passed to the chairman, the meeting was dissolved.
At ten o'clock a meeting of the Historical Section was held in the Hall of the Hartley Institution. The Bishop of Winchester, President of the meeting, occupied the chair. He said that he had great pleasure in introducing the Lord Henry Scott, who would read an Address as President of the Section. He was sorry to say that he should not be able to hear much of the Address, as he had to hold a continuation in a neighbouring town, but he was sure the meeting was in able hands. The Lord Henry Scott, M.P., then delivered an Address "On the History of the South-Western portion of England" (printed at p. 212 of this vol.). Lord Talbot expressed the thanks of the members to Lord Henry Scott, of whose labours he spoke most approvingly. He thought it his duty to support the two chief suggestions made in the essay they had heard—to get a good county history, and to have a good county Archæological Society. The vote of thanks having been passed and acknowledged, the Rev. J. Austen related a tradition as to the origin of the name Hampton. The Rev. F. W. Baker then read a memoir on "The Abbey of Beaulieu."
"The Cistercian Abbey of Beaulieu (Bellus Locus Regis) was founded by King John, A.D. 1204, and the circumstances which led to its foundation are recorded in the Chartulary of the Abbey, still preserved in the British Museum, among the Cottonian MSS., from which we learn 'that the monarch being beyond measure, but most unreasonably, enraged at the Abbots and monks of the Cistercian order, summoned the
- ↑ See Arch. Camb., Fourth Series, vol. iii, p. 167, for a review of Mr. Fergusson's work, "Rude Stone Monuments."
