220 Anniversary Address. 



supplies a stimulus, by keeping him on the watch to select 

 fitting topics for the address expected from him. 



The principal part of my duty, which is to bring before 

 you the proceedings at our several meetings, is much facilitated 

 by the admirable manner in which the minutes of these meet- 

 ings are kept. Mr. Tate, one of the secretaries, to whom we 

 are indebted for them, not only narrates faithfully everything 

 important or interesting which occurs, but clothes his record 

 in such felicitous language, that the reading of it, so far from 

 being tedious, is ever listened to by us with pleasure. 



I therefore make no apology for engrossing in my address 

 these minutes verbatim ; — and after each, I will offer to you 

 such comments as the minutes may have suggested to me. 



Wliittingham Meeting. — " A wet and threatening morning 

 deterred several members from attending the meeting of the 

 club held at Wliittingham on the 13th of September, 1860. 

 Early, however, in the forenoon, the rain passed away, and 

 the members who assembled enjoyed all the advantage which 

 a pleasant day could afford. 



After breakfast at the Castle Inn, the party visited Wliit- 

 tingham Church, one of those rare structures which carry us 

 back into Saxon times. It was probably found in the middle 

 of the eighth centmy, by Ceolwulph one of the kings of North- 

 umberland, who, some years before he died, abandoned his 

 regal dignity and retired into the monastery of Lindisfarne 

 which he richly endowed. Simeon tells us, — ' Intravit autem 

 Lindisfarnense monasterium Sancto Cuthberto secum con- 

 ferens thesauros, regios, et terras, id est Bregesne* et Werce- 

 worde ^ cum suis appendiciis, simul et ecclesia quam ibidem 

 ipse aedificaverat : alias quoque quatuor villas Wudecestre, 

 Hwitingham,*^ Eadulfingham,*^ et Eagwlfingham.'® 



Greatly was it regretted that much of the old Saxon work 

 was destroyed, when the church was repaired and altered in 

 1840. Fortunately, Hickman has given a brief account of 

 this church, and a drawing of the tower as they existed before 



a Brainshaugh ? ^ Warkworth. <= Whittingham. 



<^ Edlingham. ^ Eglingham. 



