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The following noblemen and gentlemen were elected as 
the Officers and Council for the ensuing year. 
Presfamt. 
THE EARL DE GREY AND RIPON. 
The Duke of Leeds. 
The Earl of Effingham. 
The Eael of Dartmouth. 
Earl Fitzwilliam. 
Lord Wharncliffe. 
Lord Londesborough. 
Viscount Galway. 
Viscount Milton. 
Rt. Hon. Sir C. Wood, M.P., Bart 
Utce^resftents. 
Edward Akroyd, Esq. 
John Waterhouse, Esq., F.R.S. 
W. B. Beaumont, Esq., M.P. 
E. B. Denison, Esq. 
Lord Houghton. 
J. Spencer Stanhope, Esq. 
G. Wentworth, Esq. 
J. G. Marshall, Esq., F.G.S. 
Thomas Wilson, Esq., M.A. 
Council. 
Henry Briggs, Esq. 
Dr. Wm. Alexander. 
H. C. Sorby, Esq., F.R.S. 
Henry Holt, Esq. 
Bentley Shaw, Esq. 
T. P. Teale, Esq., F.L.S. 
R. Carter, Esq., C.E. 
T. W. Embleton, Esq. 
Rev. Dr. Burnet. 
Dr. Scholefteld. 
Wm. Chad wick, Esq. 
Samuel Baines, Esq. 
Skcretarg. 
Wm. Sykes Ward, Esq., F.C.S. 
f^onorarg Curators. 
J. G. Marshall, Esq. | T. W. Embleton, Esq. 
Hocal &ccretart£g. 
H. C. Sorby, Esq., Sheffield. 
Hy. Briggs, Esq., Wakefield. 
Dr. Alexander, Halifax. 
Dr. Scholefleld, Doncaster. 
Bentley Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield. 
Richard Carter, Esq., Barnsley. 
The Rev. Dr. Burnet, Bradford. 
Dr. Paley, Ripon. 
The following Papers were then read : — 
ON THE RISE AND SUPPRESSION OF THE TEMPLARS IN YORK- 
SHIRE. BY THE REV. JOHN KENRICK, M.A., F.S.A., OF 
YORK. 
[As this paper is about to be published in extenso by the Yorkshire 
Philosophical Society, before whom it was originally read, only an abstract 
of it is here given.] 
The object of this paper being the local not the general 
history of the order of Templars, I shall not enter into the 
circumstances of its foundation, but confine myself to its 
