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Rh of set purpose connected with the hagiolatry or demonolatry of the people. I hope also that what has been laid before my readers has been sufficient to convince them that these Legends, if explored, will decisively and instructively show the value of studying them in detail to those who would dig down to the roots of folklore anywhere in the world, and would learn something of the thoughts of the folk and of the trains of reasoning, which give form to the many apparently incomprehensible and unreasonable actions observable in the every-day life of the peasantry everywhere.

minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Mr. G. Sneddon and Mrs. W. Beer as Members of the Society, and the withdrawal of the resignation of Miss Edith Mendham were announced.

The death of Mr. W. Gore Marshall was also announced.

The Secretary, on behalf of Mr. William Whitelegge, exhibited a hornbook, the property of the late Canon Whitelegge, dating back to 1745, and referred to in Tuer's History of the Hornbook.

The President exhibited some photographs of "May Ladies" at King's Lynn, taken by Dr. Plowright, President of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, the 1st May, 1894.