XXX. FIRST WINTER MEETING. 



EXHIBITS. 



By the President (1) A copy of Tyndale's New Testament, 

 1536, known as " the mole " edition. Three editions were 

 published in that year, and they may be distinguished by 

 the stone in the woodcut of St. Paul at the beginning of 

 several Epistles. On one stone there is engraved an animal 

 generally accepted as a mole ; on another, the surface is not 

 engraved, this variety being known as the " blank stone " 

 edition ; on the third, there are the letters A.B.K. in mono- 

 gram, whence it is known as the " engraver's mark " edition. 

 The first edition of Tyndale's New Testament was issued in 

 1525, and is represented in the British Museum by a fragment 

 of 31 leaves which were printed in Cologne, but Tyndale 

 was forced to fly before his work was finished. The second 

 edition was probably printed by Peter Schoeffer at Worms 

 in 1525, and is represented by a fragment at St. Paul's and 

 by a copy at Bristol which is complete except for the title. 

 (A facsimile of the Bristol copy was sent for exhibition by 

 Mr. A. N. Stephens.) A title page, but nothing more, exists 

 of the third edition in 1532, and there are copies extant 

 of 1534 and 1535 ; indeed, it is quite possible that there 

 were other issues before " the mole " edition. The woodcuts 

 which illustrate " the mole " edition of 1536 are very 

 remarkable, especially those in Revelation. The latest 

 issue of Tyndale's translation was in 1566. 



(2) A finely engraved helmet of the sixteenth century, 

 said to be of Spanish origin. 



By Captain Elwes A " Venetian dog," or pistol, of the 

 period 1650-80. 



By Mr. E. A. Rawlence Objects connected with a pre- 

 historic burial recently found in Low Hill quarry, Nether 

 Compton, Sherborne, consisting of flint flakes, a boar's tooth, 

 a roe -deer horn, &c. Captain Acland thought that the 

 interment probably belonged to the Bronze Age. 



By Mr. Alfred Pope A bond for 2,500 given by the 

 fourth Marquis of Winchester, who had embarrassed his 



