Monument attributed to Sir John Chandos, at the foot of the Ruins of the Bridge of Lusac PLATE. PAGE. XXIV. Representation of an ancient Pax 536 XXV. Vessel discovered under the bed of the River Rother, near Matham in Kent, A. D. 1822 554 XXVI. Section of the Channel at the site of the Vessel 556 XXVII. Changes in the Channel of the Rother 562 Evesham 566 XXIX. Seals of Edward son of Edward IVth and Arthur son of 579 At a Council of the Society of Antiquaries, May 31, 1782. RESOLVED THAT any Gentleman desirous to have separate Copies of any Memoir he may have presented to the Society, may be allowed, upon application to the Council, to have a certain number, not exceeding Twenty, printed off at his own expense. At a Council of the Society of Antiquaries, May 23, 1792. RESOLVED THAT the Order made the 31st of May 1782, with respect to Gentlemen who may be desirous to have separate Copies of any Memoir they may have presented to the Society, be printed in the volumes of the Archaeologia, in some proper and conspicuous part, for the better communication of the same to the Members at large. At a Council of the Society of Antiquaries, May 2, 1815. ORDERED THAT in future, any Gentleman desirous to have separate Copies of any Paper he may have presented to the Society, which shall be printed in the Archaeologia or Vetusta Monumenta, shall be allowed, on application in writing to the Secretary, to receive a number not exceeding Twenty Copies (free of all expense) of such Paper, as soon as it is printed. 7W ARCHAEOLOGIA; OR, MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS, &c. I. Translation of a French Metrical History of the Deposition of King Richard the Second, written by a Contemporary, and comprising the Period from his last Expedition into Ireland to his Death; from a MS. formerly belonging to Charles of Anjou, Earl of Maine and Mortain; but now preserved in the British Museum; accompanied by Prefatory Observations, Notes, and an Appendix; with a Copy of the Original. By the Rev. JOHN WEBB, M. A. F. A. S. Rector of Tretire in Herefordshire, and Minor-Canon of the Cathedral of Gloucester. Read 14th January, 1819. PREFATORY OBSERVATIONS. THE metrical Tract which it is the design of the following remarks to introduce is peculiarly valuable to the English antiquary and historian. It refers to a series of events, the chief of which, though involving the fate of the kingdom, took place in a remote part of it; but the whole of them, from the various manner in which they have been recorded by different writers, seem to have been little understood, or much misrepresented at the period in which they occurred. It is also highly interesting to the general reader; for it offers an original circumstan |