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Rh obstinacy of a party who had paid the fees for the erection of a mural tablet over them, which no inducement would tempt them to forego.

Dr. Buckland said that he thought it necessary that some decisive and immediate steps should be taken to stay this spoliation of our sacred edifices. He instanced several cases of destruction, and pressed upon the consideration of the meeting the necessity of acting with prompt energy to stay the desecration and destruction now going forward. It was proposed then by Dr. Buckland, and seconded by Mr. Wollaston, that a letter should immediately be addressed to the proper authorities, urging them to suspend the erection of the mural monument in East Wickham church. The resolution was carried unanimously. After which Mr. Croker moved, and Mr. Noble seconded, that the proper authorities in all such cases be interceded with, and that the rural deans be written to, in order that the efforts of the Committee in so holy a work might be assisted by their powerful co-operation.

Mr. Planché read a paper by Mr. M. A. Lower, of Lewes, on "the Badge of the Buckle of the ancient House of Pelham."

Mr. Stapleton read a paper on "the Succession of William of Arques," after which the meeting separated to visit the museum of Dr. Faussett.

By two o'clock a large number of the members and many ladies assembled at the mansion of the Rev. Godfrey Faussett, D.D., where Sir John Fagg had very obligingly forwarded for inspection a large collection of Saxon antiquities, which were arranged in Dr. Faussett's museum. Dr. Buckland, Mr. Wright, Mr. C. Roach Smith, Mr. Bland of Hartlip, and Dr. Faussett himself, superintended the arrangements made for admitting the company to the museum by small parties, in order that all might obtain a view of this extensive collection, and hear such a description as limited time and circumstances would permit.

This collection was made by the Rev. Bryan Faussett, the contemporary and associate of Douglas, who engraved and published many of the objects in his well-known "Nenia Britannica."' In that able and sound work, however, justice has not been done in the engravings to many of the most interesting specimens, while a vast quantity of invaluable materials for illustrating the manners, customs, and arts of the early Saxons, are altogether unpublished. Nearly the whole of the collection inherited by Dr. Faussett, was accumulated from the barrows of the county of Kent. It consists chiefly of weapons in iron of various kinds, of ornaments of the person, many of them of the richest and most costly kind, articles of the toilette, vessels in glass and in copper and brass, coins, &c. The greater portion of these seems to claim unquestioned appropriation to the Saxon epoch. There is also a valuable department of Roman and Romano-British antiquities, and a small but no less valuable collection of Celtic implements and weapons. Almost every article is labelled, and is fully described or drawn, with an account of its