implements of flint were exhibited, obtained from these researches, so 
fresh in their appearance, that but for the evidence of their antiquity 
they might have been concluded to be recent fabrications. 
December I. — A communication was read from John Phillips, 
L. L. D., F. R. S., F. G. S., on a recent discovery of Roman remains 
at Filey. The unusually heavy rain-storm of August in the present 
year, laid open to view some traces of construction on the narrow 
neck of land above the rocky promontory called Filey Bridge. On 
further examination it appeared, that four squared stones, set in clay 
with which boulders had been mixed, had stood at the corners of a 
rectangular space, probably supporting angle posts and horizontal 
tie-beams, on which a roof of straw or turf had been placed. The 
floor, above the clay and boulders, was an irregular thin layer of 
concrete, on which lay a mass of rubbish, pottery, bones and charred 
oak, with coins in considerable numbers. The pottery was Romano- 
British without any Samian ; the coins were all Roman without the 
admixture of any work of later generations; and hence the author of 
the communication concluded, that the erection had been intended as 
a shelter to a detachment of Roman soldiers, appointed to guard this 
coast. The coins, as far as seen by him, were of Constantins and 
Constantine. 
A paper was also read by the Rev. John Kenrick, “ On the Rise, 
Progress and Suppression of the Order of Knights-Templar in the 
County of York.” The ample possessions which this order obtained 
in our county were owing to the patronage of the noble families of 
De Brus, Mowbray, De Lacy, De Ros, De Stutevile and Hastings, 
whose own domains were immense. From the survey made of the 
Ballia of Eborascire in the year 1185 it appears that the lands of the 
Templars began at the northern verge of the county, and extended 
both into the East and West Riding. Their chief preceptory in 
this county was at Newliusuin, now Temple Newsome near Leeds; 
and they had another at Ribston. Nearer York they possessed lands 
at Copmanthorpe, where a field still retains the name of Temple- 
garth. In York itself they had only some small tenements and the 
mills near the Castle, which have lately been destroyed. Altogether 
upwards of eighty places are m,entioned in the survey of 1185 in 
which they had possessions or rights, and doubtless these would be 
much increased in the course of the next century. The sources of 
their revenues were various; besides lands they had tolls in fairs and 
