120 Anniversary Add-ress. 



Wm. Dickson, P. Dickson, P. Clay, T. S. Grete, and J. Melrose. 

 After dinner the President read his address, and proposed that 

 J. C. Langiands, Esq., of Old Bewick, be the President for the 

 ensuing year. The Eev. E. W. Kirwood and Mr. Walker were 

 elected members. There were afterwards read the following 

 papers : — Obituary Notice of the late Pev. Joseph Watkins Barnes, 

 Yicar of Kendal, and Miscellanea Zoologica, by Pobert Embleton, 

 Esq. ; Notes on the Geology and Archaeology of Beadnell, by 

 George Tate, F.G.S. ; an Account of the S^mrs found near Belford 

 Castle, by the Eev. J. D. Clark ; a Catalogue of Land and Fresh- 

 water Shells in the neighbom-hood of Alnwick, by Geo. E. Tate, 

 M.D., Eoyal Artillery. Mr. Grete exhibited coins, cannon balls, 

 and other Antiquities obtained near to Norham Castle, of which 

 he agreed to furnish an account for our Transactions. Mr. Selby 

 shewed two rare butterflies, Vanessa Antiopa and Colias Ediisa, of 

 which he also will give a notice. 



*'Mr John "Wheldon, of London, was nominated a member of 

 the Club. 



*' Norham, the place of meeting, though now but a poor village, 

 was formerly a place of no little importance. It had its charter, 

 granted by Bishop Pudsey in the 12th century, its Burgesses en- 

 joying ' all the liberties and free customs, which were enjoyed 

 by the Burgesses of Newcastle and North of the Tyne,' and its 

 Bailiffs and Corporate Officers. It had also its weekly market, 

 *keept,' says a survey made in Queen EHzabeth's time, 'on 

 the Sundaye, which by reason it is undecent is therefore the less 

 used or esteemed.' During the Saxon period this town was 

 called Ubbanford, from Ubba or Offa a personal name, and a 

 ford which here crosses the river. Its recent name Northam or 

 Norham (that is North Town) occurs in A.D. 1082, and indicates 

 its northern position. It gives the name Norhamshire to a con- 

 siderable district, which was one of the earliest possessions of the 

 see of Lindisfarne, and which subsequently formed part of the 

 County Palatine of Durham. Over it, for many centuries, the 

 Bishops of Durham exercised the powers of great Feudal Lords ; 

 but these powers were taken away by an act of Parliament in the 

 reign of Queen Elizabeth. The church, the castle, and the his- 

 torical events associated with them, still, however, give a great 

 interest to this 'locality. 



"After breakfast the Club visited the church, which since the 

 repairs and restorations effected during the incumbency of the late 



