COUNCIL FOR 1849. 
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indebted to the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club, some of the mem¬ 
bers of that club having obtained permission from Richard 
Jennings, Esq., to complete the examination of a large tumulus 
in his possession at Driffield, partially explored by him four or 
five years ago; on which former occasion he found some very 
curious Anglo-Saxon remains, and presented them to the 
Museum. 
The result of further excavations by the Antiquarian Club 
has been the discovery of several similar but still more curious 
articles of the Anglo-Saxon period, which, added to those pre¬ 
viously received from the owner of the tumulus, form a highly 
interesting and instructive portion of the collections of the 
Society. 
A relic of a period not so remote, hut of a very interesting 
character, has been presented to the Society by the Rev. J. 
Thompson, Vicar of Easeby: an Epitaph, or rather four 
Epitaphs on a Mr. J. Swale, in four different Languages, Hebrew, 
Greek, Latin, and English, written (as it is with great 
probability conjectured,) by that eminent reformer and translater 
of the Bible, Miles Coverdale, in the year 1538. The epitaphs 
are written on a folio sheet of paper, framed in oak, and 
guarded by a sliding panel of the same material, by which 
they had been long and effectually concealed. It had been 
deposited in the Church of Easeby, by whom or when it is not 
known; and, there, had served as a trencher, on which the 
Sacramental bread was cut. A copy of the epitaphs is given 
by Dr. Whitaker in his history of Richmondshire. 
The Council have the satisfaction to state that the many 
valuable services, which have been rendered to the Antiquarian 
departments of the Museum, by their Curator, will soon be 
crowned by the completion of an arranged description of the 
principal remains of Roman and Mediaeval art, which are in the 
possession of the Society. The publication of such a work 
will be at once honourable to the Society and gratifying to the 
public. 
It will be found, from an examination of the list of donations, 
that several additions of unusual interest have been made to 
the collection of stove and hardy plants, in the Society’s Hot- 
