8 FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



gentlemen resident in the tovvn and neighbourhood, the 

 Museum was well furnishcd. Among the most attractlve 

 and interesting objects contributed were the following by 

 George Hakbin, Esq., of Newton House : — A Deed of 

 Grant out of the Exchequer, under the ßroad Seal of 

 England, by Charles II., of Annuitles of £200 each for 

 their respective lives, to Rachel and Frances Wyndham, 

 daughters of Sir Francis Wyndham, of Trent, on the peti- 

 tion of his wife, Lady Anne Wyndham, and on the sur- 

 render of an annuity for her life of X-iOO granted by Charles 

 IL, to the Said Lady Anne Wyndham in the 19th year of 

 his reign, in consideration, as recited in the said Deed, of 

 the good and faithful service performed by Lady Anne 

 Wyndham, in being instrumental to his preservation after 

 the battle of Worcester. Date of Deed 34tli year of the reign 

 of Charles ILA Cap worn, and a Knife used, by Charles IL, 

 whilst in concealment at Sir Francis Wyndham's, at Trent, 

 in the county of Somerset, after the battle of Worcester, 

 September 3rd, 1651. A Medal of Charles I., and Hen- 

 rietta, his wife, belonging to the late Sil* Thomas Wynd- 

 ham, Bart., father of Sir Francis Wyndham, of Trent. A 

 Portrait (in distemper) of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of 

 Edward IV., Date 1461. ADrinking Cup, with part of a 

 Buck's hörn, found in a field at Stoford, in Barwick, be- 

 longing to Mr. Harbin, in 1826, in a stone vault hewn in 

 the solid rock, and covered with a rough stone slab, three 

 feet in width and four feet in depth, containing a human 

 skeleton, placed in a sitting posture with the drinking cup 

 on one side and the Deer's hörn on the other, near which 

 another vault Avas opened, containing the skeleton of a 

 horse ; at a little distance another very large vault was 

 discovered, containing an immense quantity of human bones, 

 mixed with earth and stones, the covers being broken by 



