REPORT OF THE 
The meeting will recollect that in 1838 some Members of 
the Society purchased three houses in Marygate, on the line 
of the ancient boundary wall of St. Mary’s Abbey ; during 
the past year an opportunity unexpectedly presented itself of 
obtaining possession of seven other houses adjoining the 
former, and with them reaching from the gateway to nearly 
the lower end of the street. Impressed with the importance 
of preventing on this line any change which might be detri¬ 
mental to the Society’s property, the Members of the Council 
undertook individually the responsibility of the purchase, and 
summoned a Special General Meeting of the Members in the 
month of June to determine whether the Society should take 
on itself the contracts for the whole or any portion of these 
ten houses. At that meeting it was resolved that the Coun¬ 
cil should be authorized to purchase such of the houses on 
the boundary line, as they might think useful for the improve¬ 
ment of the grounds ; in consequence the Council have caused 
the ten houses to be regularly transferred to the Trustees of 
the Society. The cost of the purchase is £^20. 8^. 9d., the 
annual rent receivable is T^38. 
Charged with the execution of an expensive alteration 
of roads and tenures, the Income of the Society has been 
inadequate to allow of purchases for the augmentation of 
any department of the Museum. It was, however, impos¬ 
sible to avoid some other considerable expenses. Some parts 
of the buildings belonging to St. Mary’s Abbey have been 
repaired; the houses purchased in Marygate have been put 
in tenantable condition ; the injurious effects of the gi'eat 
storm of last winter on the Museum building have been re¬ 
medied ; and the Council have felt it right to recommend 
that the expenses of printing and advertising the Subscrip¬ 
tion Lists for restoring the Hospitium (<^^30.) should be de¬ 
frayed by the Society. The Treasurer’s General Account 
and the Analysis of Disbursements during the past year. 
