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 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. 2^9 may pray on the spot for those who are there buried. In this way the phantoms and apparitions of evil spirits are driven away, as the Atrebati, grave and practical men, told me in Belgium. For as I was passing through a churchyard I saw a number of lighted candles burning there, and very many persons praying on the spot. On enquiring the reason I was informed that frightful spectres were wont to appear there by night, but that since the use of lights and prayers for the departed they had disappeared." I am too little acquainted with the subject to attach any weight to this speculation, especially as regards this country. I only mention it as coin- ciding with what I was before ignorant of, the theory mentioned as above, and shall be forgiven for adding the remarkable lines of the " Comus," ex- pressive of a kindred belief, about ghosts and disembodied spirits, which comes to my recollection in connection with the thought of prayers uttered and light shed over graves : " Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen by charnel-vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved." — Comus, lin. 470. We have received from the Rev. Arthur Hussey the following note to the i)aper " On the city of Anderida or Andredesceaster," in the Archaeo- logical Journal for September, 1847, vol. iv. p. 203. "It is a matter of regret, that the statement respecting the name ' Ariidred' as applied to a farm near Newenden was (note d, p. 208) inadvertently attributed to the Rev. B. Post; whereas he, on the contrary, had detected the original error, which a])pears in a letter signed A. J. K. in the Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1843, (p. 370,,) wherein the authority of the Ordnance Map of Kent is allegecl for the appellation ' Arndred.' I regret overlooking the fact, that Mr. Post, in the article I was consulting, Gent's Mag. for December, 1844, p. 580, notices the above assertion oidy to correct it, declaring the name given in the Map to be really 'Arnden orHarnden,' in agreement with my own knowledge of the locality. " ".i reference to my remark, p. 207, on the absence, first, of ' stones likely to have belonged to Losenham priory,' and secondly, of Roman remains in that vicinity, Mr. Post informs me that he has a fragment 'of figured pavement,' which he procured at Losenham ; and that Roman coins are not unfrequently discovered in the neighbouihood of Newenden. My observation, with respect to the first particular, was intended to ajtply solely to building stones, paving tiles not having been sought for ; and with regard to the latter I certainly was not aware, till Mr. Post assured me of it, that ' a considerable collection' of Roman coins is possessed by an individual near Newenden. I finally removed from that part of Kent in the autumn of 1831. " I leave the advocates of Newenden, as the site of Anderida, to make what ad- vantage they can of the above fact, being mysell' persuaded, that the exhumation of an indefinite quantity of such coins throughout the district in cpiestion is not per se, sufficient evidence for believing the existence of an important Roman city within that district, still less for pronouncing the city to have been Andredesceaster." The Annual Meeting of the Archa?ological Institute for the year 1849 has been fixed to be held at Salisbury. The Lord Bishop of Salishuiy has consented to be Patron -of the Meeting, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., will be President on the occasion. The monthly meetings of the members of the Institute will recommence on Friday, Nov. 3, at 25, Great George-street, at four o'clock, and be con- tinued, on the first Friday in each month, until June. VOL. v. 11 h