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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The SOCIETY Of ANTIQUARIES Of LONDON. TOWARDS the end of the fixteenth century, about the year 1572, a kind of Antiquarian Society was formed, under the patronage of archbifhop Parker, which afiembled for twenty years together, in the houfe of fir Robert Cotton, and got into fome repute. The little mind and the jealoufy of James I. took alarm, and he diffolved it. In the beginning of the prefent century, fome lovers of antiquity agreed to meet every Wednefday, in a houfe in Fleet-ftreet; and whoever was defirous of being received as a member of their fociety, paid half a guinea for entrance, and a milling at every meeting. It was by the intereft of lord Hard- wicke and their then prefident Martin Folkes, that in the year 1751, they obtained a charter iimilar to that of the Royal Society, in which the king declared himfelf their Founder and Patron. They now compiled a body of ftatutes, and adopted a common feal, which, as an engraving, is to be feen upon the title page of 6 their their Tranfactions, reprefencing a burning lamp, with the motto, nSn extinguetur. The chief object of the enquiries and re- fearches of the fociety are Britifh Antiquities and Hiftory, not, however, wholly excluding thofe of other countries. Since the year 1770, the fociety has publifhed its tranfactions, in a fimi- lar manner as thofe of the Royal Society, under the title Df Arcbeologia; or, Mifcetlaneous Traits relating to Antiquity, of which about nine volumes have been printed. It has been faid, that the attention and the refearches of the fociety are too often employed about trifles, and the fweepings of antiquity; that many of the memoirs, which they publifh, have the appearance of micrology, inftead of furnifhing both inftruction and entertainment, by dif- covering and reftoring traits ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217909969
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217909965
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 177 gr


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