I have the honor to send you a M.S. on vellum, containing a Declaration of the Diet and particular Fare for the Duke of York (Charles I.), his attendants, and particular officers; also the names of his Grace's servants, with their respective wages to be paid by the cofferer to the Prince his Highness, (Prince Henry) to begin from the first day of January 1610, under the sign manual of King James I.

In the particulars of the Expence of the Royal Household in the reigns of Hen. VII. &c. to the present time, which I laid before the Society in 1794, and which they were pleased to insert in the 12th Vol. of the Archaeologia, there was an account of the number of servants in the Household of prince Henry, son of king James the First; and in the Household Ordinances published by the Society at p. 313. is a copy of the Assignation of the landes and revenues for support of that Prince made in 1610, amounting in the whole to 19,322l. 7s. 7d. besides certain Forests and Parks.

When by a general and constant report I heard that his Ma˜ty was much offended with me about my speeches and behaviour in parliament, and myself finding the report too true by many particular speeches and actions of the king tending to make his displeasure the more sensible to me, I thought it my duty to use all lawfull means whereby to make my grief known, and my desire seen, which I long had to clear myself, and remove the cloud that had so long obscured his Ma˜ty's favour from me.

Will you be kind enough to lay before the Society the papers which accompany this note? The discovery seems to me to be of considerable importance, and the learned world must lament that young men so zealous in the cause of antient literature should have had the misfortune to lose by shipwreck many treasures collected in various parts of Greece.

The following account of the entertainment of Henry VI. at the Abbey of Bury Saint Edmund's not having been noticed by any of our chroniclers or historians, and it being descriptive of the monastic manners of the times, induces me to submit it to the observation of the Society.

“The nobilitie of England accordinge to their authorites and degrees.

Paulett, Marques of Winchester.

Hawarde, Earle of Arundell and Surrey.

Veare, Earle of Oxforde, Vicount Bulbecke.

Percie, Earle of Northumberland,

Talbott, Earle of Shrowsburie.

Graie, Earle of Kent, Baron Hastinges and Ruthen.

Stanley, Earle of Darbie, Lo: of Mann and Strange.

Somerfett, Earle of Worstr, Lo: Harbert of Chepstowe.

Manners, Earle of Rutland, Baron of Rosse.

The parish of Trinity in the Minories is on the scite of a religious house, which became parochial on the suppression of the monastery in the reign of Henry VIII. It appears originally to have been a part of the parish of St. Botolph Aldgate, when Blanche, queen of Navarre, (the wife of Edmund duke of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby, brother to king Edward I.) was desirous of signalizing her pious zeal according to the custom of the times by erecting an abbey. In the king's licence.

In consequence of the conversation which I had the honor to hold with you, I take an early opportunity of explaining, as far as the want of an original MS. will admit, the process of unrolling the ancient Papyri discovered in Herculaneum.

Since I did myself the honor of sending you a short account of three Roman Urns, and a newly-discovered cromlêh, a farmer who lives in the parish of Lanant, just four miles directly north of St. Michael's Mount, happening to be employed in digging up earth for manure, in the ditch of one of his fields; found a place where the ground was loose to more than an usual depth; which tempting him to search for the cause, at two feet under the surface he met with ashes; many celts, some entire and others broken; several pieces of copper swords; and heavy lumps of fine copper evidently brought thither for fusion, as there is every appearance that this was a military foundery.

The numerous tumuli or barrows, that meet the eye of the traveller in every direction, as he passes over the Wiltshire and Dorsetshire Downs; naturally excite the curious mind to know the history of these ancient and simple monuments.

Having lately found in the house of Mr. Bromley, at Abberley Lodge in the county of Worcester, who was heir to the Walsh's of that place, the original death-warrant of Humphrey Lyttleton, in which are the signatures of the privy council, most of whom were commissioners for the trial of the powder conspirators; I thought it might be some amusement to the Society if I laid before them a copy of the warrant, together with a facsimile of the signatures: [a] on which they will observe how ill Thomas Lord Ellesmere the chancellor wrote, and what good penmen most of the other noblemen were. Indeed many of the writings about that time were more carefully and neatly penned, than in the following or preceding centuries: and I must say in justice to my engraver, that he has executed his work with great care and accuracy. The direction on the outside of the letter was ‘To or very loving freind the high sheriffe of the countie of Worcester.’

In the Eighth Volume of the Society's Archaeologia, are many ingenious observations on the origin of cards, and their introduction into England; more especially those of our late learned member Mr. Gough. That gentleman has in a manner exhausted the subject; but as, in his account of the Italian game Minchiate, he has given French names to the cards, I am induced to think that he was indebted for his information principally, if not wholly, to the “Voyage d'un François en Italie,” and to the casual inspection of an imperfect set of cards of French fabrique, though inscribed with the name of an Italian maker.

The scite of ancient Carthage appears to have been a most excellent situation for commerce, no part of the world could afford better accommodation for shipping; here is a lake about ten miles along, and five broad at the widest part, in a direct line between the ruins of Carthage, and the city of Tunis, and communicating with the sea, by a navigable canal at the Goletta near Carthage. On examining this lake I found that it had once been about eighteen feet in depth, with an hard bottom, except a part of the east side, lying near the sea between the Goletta and Tunis. Here are the remains of houses for about three miles, their breadth at the broadest part does not appear to have been above a mile. I took a great deal of pains to satisfy my curiosity respecting these houses: having a boat belonging to a ship of war, no other being permitted to navigate on this lake: at low water some of the tops of them were not above a foot under the surface of the water; at the Goletta there is generally a rise and fall of the tide, about three feet; but the canal between the sea and the lake being very narrow, it does not raise the water in the lake so much. My people frequently got out of the boats and walked on the tops of the houses, but were sometimes in danger, often meeting with places beyond their depth; one of them having shot at a flamingo, and broke its wing, pursued it over these houses, where the boats could not go, and had nearly lost his life by falling into some deep holes. Many parts of this lake are now scarcely navigable, and particularly towards Tunis, since the Moors will not take the trouble to clear away the immense quantity of mud and filth that is continually washing into it from the city of Tunis, and which has been accumulating for many centuries.

[a] Some particulars of the character of this worthy baronet may be learned from the following inscription on his monument in Wilsden church.

“Here lyeth this body of Sir John Francklyn, late of Wilsden in the countie of Middlesex, knt. who had to wife Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of George Purefoy, of Wadley in the county of Berks, Esq. It was her happiness to make him the joyful father of ten sons and seven daughters, and it is her pietie to dedicate this monument to the preservation of his memory. He died in the 48th yeare of his age, March the 24th, 1647.

Enclosed is the copy of an indenture which sometime since came into my possession, and which is not to be found either in Rymer's Fœdera, or any other work. It is an agreement between king Edward the IVth, and William Lord Hastings, Master of the Mint, respecting the regulation of the coinage in the Tower of London. It is dated March the 2d, in the 8th year of the king's reign, being the year 1469. The steady attachment of Sir William de Hastings to the house of York, the gratitude evinced by his king in return for that attachment, and the murder of this unfortunate nobleman by order of the tyrant Richard the IIId, are too well known to be here repeated.

The nations which occupied the parts of Britain between the Thames and the Channel at the time of Cæsar's invasion, were colonies from Belgic Gaul; and of these the Bibroci derived their name and that of their chief town Bibracte from Bibrax, which is mentioned by Cæsar as not far from Rheims; and of which the situation seems to have been fixed with accuracy by D'Anville at Bièvre 8 miles north-west of the river Aisne.

I consider myself flattered by the wish you express of knowing more of the work in which I am engaged, and to which I alluded in my former letter. The subject, from its having much of a professional cast, may perhaps fail to interest you, but since you desire to have the particulars of my plan, I send them to you with the greatest pleasure. Having, in common with many others, had frequent cause to lament that the study of our laws (if meant to be pursued with effect) requires an almost total dereliction of every other pursuit; yet, finding that the mind must have some relaxation, it occurred to me, that by noting down any curious or otherwise remarkable particulars that might meet with respecting the forensic proceedings of early times, a species of amusement might be discovered, which so far from interrupting or impeding my progress in the regular line of study, would in some measure become a stimulus, and render me less attentive to the ruggedness and difficulties of the way.

I am induced by the suggestion contained in your very obliging letter to send you what particulars I have been able to collect respecting the site of Kenwith or Kenwic Castle; a fortress, the history of which I should suppose can never prove uninteresting to Englishmen, since it is intimately connected with one of the most brilliant exploits that adorn the pages of our annals. To establish its claim to the particular attention of every lover of antiquity, I need only mention that by the fortunate sally of an intrepid band of Anglo-Saxons from Kenwith Castle, to which the Danes had lain siege towards the close of the ninth century, the main western army of these ferocious invaders was routed, 1200 of them, including their principal leader, killed, their consecrated standard taken, and the gloomy aspect of affairs so entirely changed, that our immortal Alfred was enabled to leave his hiding place, and again to assume the command of his armies and the government of his people.

The Charter of which this is a transcript was purchased out of the Collection of the late sir Charles Frederick.