6 TWELFTII ANN UAL MEETING. 



Mr. SuKTEES moved a vote of thanks to the Bristol and 

 Exeter Eailway Company for the facilities afForded by them 

 to xnembers of the Society in connection -with the meeting. 



Mr. E. Badcock seconded the proposition, whicli svas 

 unanimously adopted. 



The Vice-Presidents of the precediug year were then 

 severally re-elected witli the addition of F. H. Dickinson, 

 Esq., ex-president, Sir Wm. Miles, Bart., M.P., and E. 

 Wilbraham Falconer, Esq., M.D. 



The Treasurers, Secretaries, Local Secretaries, and the 

 Curator were also re-elected, and the name of the Eev. 

 Frederick Brown, of Xailsea was added to the list of Local 

 Secretaries. 



The foUowing gentlemen were re-elected on the Com- 

 mittee :— J. E. Allen, Esq., "W. W. Coker, Esq., W. E. 

 Gillett, Esq-, M.D., W. M. Kelly, Esq., M.D., W. Metford, 

 Esq., M.D., J. F. Xorman, Esq. 



The folloAving gentlemen (proposed at a Committee 

 Meeting) were balloted for and duly elected Members of 

 the Society: Mr. Lewis H, Eugg, Clement Bush, Esq,, 

 Eev. "W. Jackson, Eees Mogg, Esq., the Eev. H. H. 

 Greenwood, and E. A. Freeman, Esq. 



A paper was then read by the Eev. Thos. Hugo, M.A., 

 on "Mynchin Buckland Priory and Preceptory," which is 

 printed in Part IL 



Mr. Parker delivered an address on the Domestic 

 Architecture of the Middle Ages, in which he stated that 

 Somersetshire was the riebest county in England for old 

 houaes. There was hardly a parish in the county which 

 did not contain an Elizabethan dwelling or one more 

 ancient still. The generality were of the fifteenth Century. 

 He was not aware of any of so early date as the twelfth 

 Century, for they were naturally and necessarily rare. The 



