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Seventh Meeting — February 7. 

 The President in the Chair. 



PRIVATE BUSINESS. 



Mr. George Casey, Mr. W. B. Falcon, and Mr. Finance 



were elected members of the Society. 



Mr. Townsend having at the last meeting expressed his 

 intention of no longer remaining Secretarj pro tempore — 



Resolved, — That the Society do now proceed to the election 

 of a Secretary. 



Resolved, — That Dr. Inman be elected Secretary of this 

 Society. 



Resolved, — That the best thanks of the Society be given to 

 Mr. Townsend, for the kindness with which he consented to 

 fill the temporary office of Secretary. 





public business. 



The President read some extracts from the Memirius 

 Ptihliciis, a newspaper printed in the time of Cromwell and 

 Charles the Second. One extract referred to the election of 

 Mr. Stanley for Liverpool, another to King Charles touching 

 for the evil. Two hundred persons were to be touched every 

 Saturday ; but they were obliged to visit the king's chirurgeon 

 two days previously, to obtain certificates or tickets for atten- 

 dance. There were some notices of the indignities offered to 

 the remains of Cromwell and Ireton. Mr. Studley Martin 

 observed, with reference to this, that a local tradition existed 

 in Huntingdonshire, that a sham body of Cromwell was buried 

 at Westminster, and that the Protector himself was quietly 



