8 NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



intended to meet,) frora a desire to manifest becoming 

 courtesy to a kindred Society with which our own is on 

 friendly relations, no Meeting was held last year for the 

 reading of Papers. Several Members of the Society, 

 however, and sonie of the Officers, attended the Meeting 

 of the Association, and the Cominittee have subsequently 

 had the pleasure of granting the use of some plates for the 

 illustration of their Proceedings. 



" The Committee have to acknowledge the courtesy 

 with which the Mayor and Corporation ofBridg water have 

 afforded every facility to your Secretaries for the examina- 

 tion of the Ancient Charters and Archives of that town, and 

 the result of that examination gives thein reason to expect 

 that most valuable and interesting materials may be had 

 from that source for the Proceedings of the Society, illus- 

 trating not only the History of the town of Bridgwater, 

 but also the County at large. 



u The Conversazione Meetings have been held in the 

 Museum during the winter months, and have been well 

 attended. While the expense of these Meetings is defrayed 

 exclusively by those who attend thein, your Committee feel 

 assured that they have greatly conduced to advance the 

 interests and objects of the Society. 



" Various circumstances having occurred which rendered 

 it undesirable to publish this year a Volume of Proceedings 

 of the same size as in former years, your Committee con- 

 sidered that they would be best Consulting the wishes and 

 convenience of the Members by issuing a larger Volume 

 than usual, to include the Proceedings of 1856-7. This 

 Volume which is now being printed, will, they hope, be 

 ready for delivery early next year. In conclusion the 

 Committee, while congratulating the Society upon the 

 large amount of success which has up to this time attended 



