many of them nearly ready to go to press : four episcopal registers, one of York, and three of Durham; two liturgical works, both belonging to York; wills from Knaresborough and London; Royalist Composition Papers for the two Northern Counties; Quarter Sessions records from Durham; the St. Bees and Percy Chartularies; and a volume illustrative of the efforts of the Municipal Authorities at York to cope with the pauper element in the sixteenth and two following centuries. Two of the Vice-Presidents of the Society have died since the last Report was published, the late Bishop of Durham and Mr. Pemberton. Their places have been filled by the election of Dr. Gee and the Rev. Chas. Slingsby. THE SURTEES SOCIETY, ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR 1834, In honour of the late Robert Surtees, of Mainsforth, Esquire, the author of the History of the County Palatine of Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Firth of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria. NEW RULES AGREED UPON IN 1849; REVISED 1863. I. The Society shall consist of not more than three hundred and fifty members. II. There shall be a Patron of the Society, who shall be President. III. There shall be twenty-four Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, and two Treasurers. IV. The Patron, the Vice-Presidents, the Secretary, and the Treasurers, shall form the Council, any five of whom, including the Secretary and a Treasurer, shall be a quorum competent to transact the business of the Society. V. The twenty-four Vice-Presidents, the Secretary, and the Treasurers, shall be elected at a general meeting, to continue in office for three years, and be capable of re-election. VI. Any vacancies in the office of Secretary or Treasurers shall be provisionally filled up by the Council, subject to the approbation of the next general meeting. VII.-Three meetings of the Council shall be held in every year, on the first Tuesday in the months of March, June, and December; and the place and hour of meeting shall be fixed by the Council, and communicated by the Secretary to the members of the Council. VIII. The meeting in June shall be the Anniversary, to which all the members of the Society shall be convened by the Secretary. IX. The Secretary shall convene extraordinary meetings of the Council, on a requisition to that effect, signed by not less than five members of the Council, being presented to him. X.-Members may be elected by ballot at any of the ordinary meetings, according to priority of application, upon being proposed in writing by three existing members. One black ball in ten shall exclude. XI. Each member shall pay in advance to the Treasurer the annual sum of one guinea. If any member's subscription shall be in arrear for two years, and he shall neglect to pay his subscription after having been reminded by the Treasurer, he shall be regarded as having ceased to be a member of the Society. XII. The money raised by the Society shall be expended in publishing such compositions, in their original language, or in a translated form, as come within the scope of this Society, without limitation of time with reference to the period of their respective authors. All editorial and other expenses to be defrayed by the Society. XIII. One volume, at least, in a closely printed octavo form, shall be supplied to each member of the Society every year, free of expense. XIV. If the funds of the Society in any year will permit, the Council shall be at liberty to print and furnish to the members, free of expense, any other volume or volumes of the same character, in the same or a different form. XV. The number of copies of each publication, and the selection of a printer and publisher, shall be left to the Council, who shall also fix the price at which the copies, not furnished to members, shall be sold to the public. XVI. The armorial bearings of Mr. Surtees, and some other characteristic decoration connecting the Society with his name, shall be used in each publication. XVII. A list of the officers and members, together with an account of the receipts and expenses of the Society, shall be made up every year to the time of the annual meeting, and shall be submitted to the Society to be printed and published with the next succeeding volume. XVIII. No alteration shall be made in these rules, except at an annual meeting. Notice of any such alteration shall be given, at least as early as the ordinary meeting of the Council immediately preceding, to be communicated to each member of the Society. PUBLICATIONS OF THE SURTEES SOCIETY, WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE SALE PRICES. N.B.-Of several of these Volumes the number of copies on hand is very small; some will not be sold, except to Members of the Society under certain conditions, and all applications for them must be made to the Secretary. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Reginaldi Monachi Dunelmensis Libellus de Admirandis Beati Cuthberti Virtutibus. IOS. Wills and Inventories, illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, etc., of the Northern Counties of England, from the Eleventh Century downwards. (Chiefly from the Registry of Durham.) Vol. I. Edited by Dr. Raine. (Only sold in a set and to a Member.) The Towneley Mysteries, or Miracle Plays. Edited by Mr. J. Gordon. The Preface by Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. (Only sold in a set and to a Member.) Testamenta Eboracensia; Wills illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Sanctuarium Dunelmense et Sanctuarium Beverlacense; or, Registers of the Sanctuaries of Durham and Beverley. 7s. 6d. Edited by Dr. Raine. The Preface by Rev. T. Chevalier. The Charters of Endowment, Inventories, and Account Rolls of the Priory of Finchale in the County of Durham. IOS. Edited by Dr. Raine. 7. Catalogi Veteres Librorum Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunelm. Catalogues of the Library of Durham Cathedral at various periods, from the Conquest to the Dissolution; including Catalogues of the Library of the Abbey of Hulme, and of the MSS. preserved in the Library of Bishop Cosin at Durham. 7s. 6d. Edited by Dr. Raine. The Preface by Beriah Botfield, Esq. 8. Miscellanea Biographica: a Life of Oswin, King of Northumberland: Two Lives of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne and a Life of Eata, Bishop of Hexham. 5s. Edited by Dr. Raine. 9. Historiæ Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres. Gaufridus de Coldingham, Robertus de Greystanes, et Willelmus de Chambre, with the omissions and mistakes in Wharton's edition supplied and corrected, and an Appendix of 665 original Documents, in illustration of the Text. IOS. Edited by Dr. Raine. IO. II. 12. Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis; a Latin Ritual of the Ninth Century, with an interlinear Northumbro-Saxon Translation. 12S. Edited by Rev. J. Stevenson. Jordan Fantosme's Anglo-Norman Chronicles of the War between the English and the Scots in 1173 and 1174. 7s. 6d. Edited, with a Translation, Notes, etc., by Francisque Michel, F.S.A. The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls, and Law Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham. 7s. 6d. Edited by Dr. Raine. 13. Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis ; necnon Obituaria duo ejusdem Ecclesiæ. 7s. 6d. Edited by Rev. J. Stevenson. 14. 15. The Correspondence of Robert Bowes of Aske, Esq., Ambassador of Queen Elizabeth to the Court of Scotland. 7s. 6d. Edited by Rev. J. Stevenson. A Description or Briefe Declaration of all the Ancient Monuments, Rites, and Customs belonging to, or being within, the Monastical Church of Durham, before the Suppression. Written in 1593. Edited by Dr. Raine. (Only sold in a set and to a Member). 16. Anglo-Saxon and Early English Psalter, now first published from MSS. in the British Museum. Vol. I. 7s. 6d. Edited by the Rev. J. Stevenson. 17. The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. With a selection from the Letters of Sir Timothy Hutton, Knt., his son, and Matthew Hutton, Esq., his grandson. 7s. 6d. Edited by Dr. Raine. 18. The Durham Household Book; or, the _Accounts of the Bursar of the Monastery of Durham, from 1530 to 1534. 7s. 6d. Edited by Dr. Raine. 19. Anglo-Saxon and Early English Psalter. 20. Vol. II. 7s. 6d. Edited by Rev. J. Stevenson. Libellus de Vita et Miraculis S. Godrici, Heremitæ de Finchale, auctore Reginaldo, Monacho Dunelmensi. 7s. 6d. Edited by Rev. J. Stevenson. 21. Depositions respecting the Rebellion of 1569, Witchcraft, and other Ecclesiastical Proceedings, from the Court of Durham, extending from 1311 to the reign of Elizabeth. IOS. Edited by Dr. Raine. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. The Injunctions and other Ecclesiastical Proceedings of Richard Barnes, Bishop of Durham (1577-87). Edited by Dr. Raine. (Only sold in a set and to a Member). The Anglo-Saxon Hymnarium, from MSS. of the Eleventh Century, in Durham, the British Museum, etc. 7s. 6d. Edited by Rev. J. Stevenson. The Memoir of Mr. Surtees, by the late George Taylor, Esq. Reprinted from the Fourth Vol. of the History of Durham, with additional Notes and Illustrations, together with an Appendix, comprising some of Mr. Surtees' Correspondence, Poetry, etc. Edited by Dr. Raine. (Only sold in a set and to a Member). The Boldon Book, or Survey of Durham in 1183. Edited by Rev. W. Greenwell. (Only sold in a set and to a Member). Wills and Inventories illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, etc., of the Counties of York, Westmoreland, and Lancaster, from the Fourteenth Century downwards. From the Registry at Richmond. Edited by Rev. J. Raine. (Only sold in a set and to a Member). The Pontifical of Egbert, Archbishop of York (731-67), from a MS. of the Ninth or Tenth Century in the Imperial Library of Paris. Edited by Rev. William Greenwell. (Only sold in a set and to a Member). 28. The Gospel of St. Matthew, from the Northumbrian Interlinear Gloss to the Gospels contained in the MS. Nero D. IV, among the Cottonian MSS. in the British Museum, commonly known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, collated with the Rushworth MS. 7s. 6d. Edited by Rev. J. Stevenson. (The four Volumes which make up this Series will be sold together for £1 18.) 29. 30. The Inventories and Account Rolls of the Monasteries of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, from their commencement in 1303 until the Dissolution. IOS. Edited by Dr. Raine. Testamenta Eboracensia; or, Wills illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, etc., of the Province of York, from 1429 to 1467. Vol. II. Edited by Rev. J. Raine. (Only sold in a set and to a Member). 31. The Bede Roll of John Burnaby, Prior of Durham (1456-64). With illustrative Documents. 7s. 6d. Edited by Dr. Raine. 32. The Survey of the Palatinate of Durham, compiled during the Episcopate of Thomas 33. The Farming Book of Henry Best, of Elmswell, E.R.Y. Edited by Rev. C. B. Norcliffe. (Only sold in a set and to a Member). 34. 35. The Proceedings of the High Court of Commission for Durham and Northumberland. The Fabric Rolls of York Minster. Edited by Rev. J. Raine. (Only sold in a set and to a 36. The Heraldic Visitation of Yorkshire, by Sir William Dugdale, in 1665. Edited by Mr. Robert Davies. (Only sold in a set and to a Member). 37. A Volume of Miscellanea, comprising the Letters of Dean Granville, the Account of the 38. A Volume of Wills from the Registry at Durham; a continuation of No. 2. 39. 40. 41. The Gospel of St. Mark, from the Northumbrian Interlinear Gloss to the Gospels A Selection from the Depositions in Criminal Cases taken before the Northern The Heraldic Visitation of the North of England, made in 1530. by Thomas Tonge, with |