Another discovery of "Acoustic Pottery" was made this year in All Saints' Church, Norwich, in all respects similar to the examples described by Mr. Minns in our published papers. Outside the same church, the existence of Consecration Crosses was also pointed out by Mr. L'Estrange. In another Norwich church, S. John Sepulchre, a portion of a fine screen was discovered, having figures of saints stencilled upon it. Of this also drawings were made by Mr. Winter.

The antiquities sent for exhibition to the Committee have not been very numerous. The silver seal, with a full-faced female head, found at S. Clement's Gates, will be illustrated in a future part. Still more rare is a Saxon or Norwegian chessman of jet, found in the year at Thelton. It has the small ornament of concentric circles so commonly seen in northen articles of a similar kind. It has been submitted to the Society of Antiquaries, and Mr. Franks, the Director, considers it a specimen of much interest.

Another part of the Society's Papers is in the press, and upwards of one hundred pages are already printed.

The Society has received the accession of twenty-seven new Members during the past year, and has to express its deep regret at the loss of two of its valued Vice-Presidents, the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Bayning, and the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Norwich.

The following Members of the Committee retire in rotation this year: The Rev. W. Grigson, Mr. Blake Humphrey, The Rev. J. J. Smith, Captain Bulwer, The Rev. G. W. W. Minns, and Mr. F. Worship; and are eligible for re-election. Another Member, Mr. Yates of Aylsham, has left the county for two years, and has requested that his name may be removed from the Committee for the present. In accordance with a wish expressed last year, the Committee desire to recommend the appointment of Mr. A. W. Morant in his place.

The Treasurer in account with the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society.

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NORFOLK AND NORWICH

Archæological Society.

REPORT FOR 1867.

READ FEBRUARY 19TH, 1868.

THE Committee of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society have once more the pleasure of presenting their Report to its Members at the Annual Meeting, and congratulating them on the continued prosperity and usefulness of the Society. The space of twelve months is but a short time for rendering an account of any objects attained in a body such as our own, which does not measure its success by business-gains and commercial credit. Much of its work is seen in its moral effects of sustaining in the public mind a reverence for the spirit which produced the works of art and architecture of old time; in promoting beauty and good taste in the life of our own day; and in storing up, not only in museums, but in men's minds, the materials for the more exact and truthful history of our country.

A proof of the interest taken in our operations may be indicated by the number of new Members who have joined us during the past year, which amounts to twenty.

A part of this accession is due to the terms on which the Society's publication of the Randworth Screen Paintings has been issued. The production of this work, the Committee

believe, has been highly satisfactory to all the Members, and has been greatly appreciated far beyond the limits of our own county. A very valuable review of it has appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for December last, from the pen of Her Majesty's Librarian, chiefly with a view to call attention to the relation which existed between Germany and England in matters of art, in the commencement of the fifteenth century, as more intimate than has been hitherto suspected, and to commend the examination of our Norfolk Screens to students of the subject, both in Germany and England.

It will give pleasure to the Members to learn that the Committee have agreed to proceed to the publication of another Screen, as their funds may admit, and that they have arranged with Mr. Winter, to whose talents so much of the credit in the matter is due, to execute lithographs of the paintings at Barton Turf Church.

A volume of a different character, quite ready for the press, has also been placed in the hands of the Committee, which they would publish with great satisfaction, if their resources would allow. The MS. is entitled "Villare Norfolciense," and is "An Attempt at the Derivation of the Names of the Towns and Villages of Norfolk," by a learned and competent Member of our Society, the Rev. G. Munford of East Winch. The scientific principles in which this volume has been compiled entitle it to a much higher estimation than many of such attempts have found, and the Committee desire to express their especial thanks to Mr. Munford for the gift of it, and trust that in course of time they will be able to place it in the possession of all their Members.

The Excursions made by the Society last year were at two opposite parts of the county; one from Yarmouth, to visit the coast churches as far as Winterton and Martham; and the other at Hunstanton, where an interesting day was spent at the Church and Hall, and in inspecting Holme, Thornham,

Ringstead, Sedgeford, and Snettisham churches; but where, from its remoteness, the attendance of Members was small.

The Committee cannot omit to notice, on the occasion of its first meeting this year, the expected visit to the city of Norwich in August next, of a learned Society whose pursuits are in many respects kindred to their own,-the British Association for the Advancement of Science. They feel that the occasion is one when our Society should give a cordial welcome to so important a body, and may receive much advantage from its discussions; and they hope to make arrangements by which an Excursion in common may be taken. They sincerely hope that the health of our highly valued President, Sir J. P. Boileau, will enable him to take a personal part in some such scheme of united action, in concert with our worthy Treasurer, the City Sheriff.

The Committee desire to propose the name of Dr. W. Jackson Howard as an Honorary Member, in acknowledgment of the very valuable assistance he has given the Society in providing the copies of the Visitation of Norfolk, which they are now publishing under the care of Mr. Dashwood.

The Members of the Committee who retire in rotation this year, are the Rev. J. Bulwer, the Rev. J. Gunn, the Rev. E. Gillett, the Rev. R. Hart, the Rev. J. Lee-Warner, and the Hon. F. Walpole, who are eligible for re-election.