3di Socifti/for the Improvement of Arts, &€. 



Designs of two towers in the East Indies were also ex- 

 hibited : the one was alleged to be 2000 years old, and the 

 other 700. They afford nothing peculiar, or indicative of 

 having any allegorical import. 



May 3. Craven Ordc, Esq. vice-president, in the chair. -^ 

 Eight plans, elevations, and sections of the cathedral 

 chijrch of Norwich, by Mr. Wilkins, of Cambridge, were 

 exhibited. The society purchased these drawings for 150/. 

 Several autograph letters from Henry VIII., sir Waller and 

 lady Raleigh, were read. The letters signed E. Kalcigh are 

 written in a very fair character, and very small, except that 

 which requested attendance at the funeral of her husband, 

 sir Walter, in which her perturbation of mind is apparent 

 in the unusual largeness of her hand-writing. These letters 

 also evince great powers of mind ; and the expression, 

 speaking of the execution of sir Walter, that " the lords 

 have not refused me his body, though they refused me his 

 life," has here a more than ordinary energy and sarc?istic 

 reflection. 



May 15. Craven Orde, Esq. in the chair. — Silver and 

 copper Lydian coins, bearing a head of Jupiter, were ex- 

 hibited, and considered as very rare. An antient parish 

 seal, which contained a private seal within it, was also laid 

 before the society. Some more drawings of Mr. Weston's 

 Greek coins were exhibited. This gentleman has changed 

 his ideas relative to a system of antient geography, which 

 he seemed disposed to create in order to support the Ima- 

 ginary importance and antiquity of his coins ; he will per- 

 haps find it necessary to reconsider his opinions a second 

 time, and may in consequence again change. 



May 22. The Rev. Dr. Hamilton in the chair. — After 

 reading the minutes of last meeting, the society adjourned 

 till the 5th of .June. 



SOCIETY FOR THK IMPnOA'EMKNT Or ARTS, MANUFAC- 

 TURES, AND COMMHRCE. 



Tuesday the '27th of May having been the anniversary of 

 this truly useful and patriotic society for the distribution of 



premiums 



