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implements of flint were exhibited, obtained from these researches, so 

 fresh in their appearance, that but for the evidence of their antiquity 

 they might have been concluded to be recent fabrications. 



December I. — A communication was read from John Phillips, 

 L. L. D., F. R. S., F. G. S., on a recent discovery of Roman remains 

 at Filey. The unusually heavy rain-storm of August in the present 

 year, laid open to view some traces of construction on the narrow 

 neck' of land above the rocky promontory called Filey Bridge. On 

 further examination it appeared, that four squared stones, set in clay 

 with which boulders had been mixed, had stood at the corners of a 

 rectangular space, probably supporting angle posts and horizontal 

 tie-beams, on which a roof of straw or turf had been placed. The 

 floor, above the clay and boulders, was an irregular thin layer of 

 concrete, on which lay a mass of rubbish, pottery, bones and charred 

 oak, with coins in considerable numbers. The pottery was Romano- 

 British without any Samian ; the coins were all Roman without the 

 admixture of any work of later generations ; and hence the author of 

 the communication concluded, that the erection had been intended as 

 a shelter to a detachment of Roman soldiers, appointed to guard this 

 coast. The coins, as far as seen by him, were of Constantius and 

 Constantine. 



A paper was also read by the Ret. John Kenrick, " On the Rise^ 

 Progress and Suppression of the Order of Knights-Templar in the 

 County of York." The ample possessions which this order obtained 

 in our county were owing to the patronage of the noble families of 

 De Brus, Mowbray, De Lacy, De Ros, De Stutevile and Hastings, 

 whose own domains were immense. From the survey made of the 

 Ballia of Eborascire in the year 1185 it appears that the lands of the 

 Templars began at the northern verge of the county, and extended 

 both into the East and West Riding. Their chief preceptory in 

 this county was at Newhusum, now Temple Newsome near Leeds ; 

 and they had another at Ribston. Nearer York they possessed lands 

 at Copmanthorpe, where a field still retains the name of Temple- 

 garth. In York itself they had only some small tenements and the 

 mills near the Castle, which have lately been destroyed. Altogether 

 upwards of eighty places are mentioned in the survey of 1185 in 

 which they had possessions or rights, and doubtless these would be 

 much increased in the course of the next century. The sources of 

 their revenues were various ; besides lands they had tolls in fairs and 



