After the business was finished at the Annual Meeting, 
the following papers were read :— 
By Dr. O’Callaghan, LL.D., D.C.L., F.S.A., on the 
«‘Recent discovery of Human Remains in the Priory 
Grounds, Warwick. 
My attention was called to a paragraph in the Times newspaper, 
of the 25th of August last, announcing that a discovery of human 
bones had been lately made by some labourers when at work in a’ 
garden near the Priory at Warwick. I lost no time in visiting the 
locality where this discovery was said to have been made. The Priory 
and grounds adjoining have lately been purchased by Mr. Thos. Lloyd, 
of the well-known banking house of that name in Birmingham. The 
house is a good specimen of an English mansion of the time of Queen 
Elizabeth, but it has few traces left of its monastic or ecclesiastical 
character. It is now undergoing the process of restoration, or rather 
of re-edification, and in good taste. In laying out the grounds before 
the south front of the house, for an ornamental garden, it was found 
necessary to break up the old grass lawn into flower beds. In digging 
into the soil, to form these beds, the workmen came upon the remains 
of several human bodies, which lay at a depth of about two feet 
from the surface. However, as it was supposed that this place had 
been the old burial ground of the Proiry, the remains were carefully 
replaced, and covered over with fhe soil. On coming over from 
Leamington te make inquiry for myself about this curious discovery, 
I found the gardener, who had the direction of the work, a very 
intelligent man, anxious to give me every assistance. Mrs. Lloyd, in 
the absence of her husband, kindly placed this man, with several 
labourers, at my disposal. We proceeded at once to break up that 
part of the ground in which the skeletons were left undisturbed. In 
a short time we came upon the osseous remains of several human 
bodies, but in a very decomposed and crumbling condition. , They did 
not appear to me to have been originally disposed in any regular order, 
for, although their direction in general was east and west, there were 
