a82 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF

The Kev. E. L. Barnwell having made some connncnts on tho criticism upon Mr. Fergusson's book, embodied iu the Report ;' its adoption was moved by the Rev. J. Lee Warner, seconded by Mr, Crabbe, and carried unanimously. The Kev. J. Lee Wiu-ner made some remarks upon the satisfactoiy prospects of the General Index to the Journal, and then the subject of the place for the Annual Meeting in lt<73 was brought forward. Mr. Burtt stated that invitations had been some time since received from Glasgow, Leeds, and E.^eter, antl a deputation was then in attendance from the latter place, to support the reconuncndation 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 iu tluit city, 8i>eaking of its many claims upon the members, and assuring them of a hearty welcome. Tlie Mayor of Exeter had fully intended to have joined in the deputation, but had been prevented by indisposition. After some discussion, the Kev. 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. Spiei-s sug- gested 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 membei-s that Lord Talhot had always been consulted with n fVrence to the place of meeting, and he had not as yet recommended Dublin. A vote of thanks liaving been pa.ssed to the chairman, the meeting was di.ssolved. At ten o'clock a meeting of the Historical Section was held in tiie Hall of the Hartley Institution. The Bishop of Winchester, President of the meeting, occui)ied the chair. He said that ho had great jjleasure in in- troducing the Lord Henry Scott, who would read an Address as President of the Section. He was sorry to say that he should not bo able to hear much of the Address, as he had to hold a continuation in a neigldiouriug town, but he was sure the meeting was in able hands. 'I'he l^ird Henry Scott, M.P., then delivered an Address "On the Histoiy of tho South-Westeru portion of England (printed at p. -'2 of this vol.). Lord Talbot expressed the thanks of the mendiers to Lonl Henry Scofet, of whose labours he spoke most a]>provingly. He thought it his <luty to KUjiporl the two chief suggestions made in the essay they had heard — to get u good county history, and to have a good countv Arcliieo- logical Society. 'J'he vote of thanks having iieen passed and acknow- ledged, the Rev. J. Austen related a tra<litioii as to the origin of the name Hampton. '1 ho Rev. V. W. Baker then read a memoir on *' The Abhey of lieaulieu." " The (Jistercian Abbey of lieaiilieu (I'.elhis Locus Regis) wa« founded by King John, A. n. 1204, and the circumstiuiceH which le«l to its foun- datifiU are reconled in the Ciiartulary of tho .Abbey, still preserveil in tho Piritish Museum, among tho ( 'ottuiiiun .MSS., from hiehwe learn ' that tho monarch Ijcing beyond niea.sure, liut most inu"ea.sonaiilv, en- raged at the Alihots and monks of tho t'istlTcian onier, summoned tho

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vol. iii, p. 1G7, for u loviuw of .Mr. Vvr inoiiu."