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or domestic use. It is most probable, therefore, that they were of the 
latter class, for it is scarcely to be supposed that if they had been of the 
nature of our clay sepulchral urns, of which so many specimens are pre¬ 
served in your Museum, so accomplished an antiquary would have 
passed them over without notice. 
The following heel-ball rubbings, made by Captain W. Persse Hew- 
enham, E. 1ST., were presented by that gentleman to the Academy:— 
Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, from brasses in St. Mary’s Eedcliff Church, 
Bristol. 
Hos. 5 and 6, from brasses in the Temple Church, Bristol. 
Ho. 7, from a brass in Swainswick Church, Bath. 
Ho. 8, from a brass in the Abbey Church, Bath. 
Hos. 9 and 10, from Turkish tombs brought from the Crimea. 
Hos. 11 and 12, from sculptured stones found in a by-street in 
Alexandria. 
MONDAY, MAY 24, 1858. 
James Henthorn Todd, D. D., President, in the Chair. 
On the recommendation of the Council, it was— 
Eesolved, That the sum of £50 be placed at the disposal of the 
Committee of Antiquities, for the purpose of purchasing articles for the 
Museum. 
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant having arrived,— 
The President delivered the following Address:— 
My Lords and Gentlemen, —The Council have imposed upon me 
the grateful task of announcing to you their recent award of the Cud- 
ningham Medals, and of explaining to you the grounds upon which they 
have adjudged them to the four gentlemen to whom I am commissioned 
to deliver them at this meeting ; but I must, in the first instance, return 
thanks to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, who has most kindly 
consented to give additional honour to the distinction conferred upon those 
gentlemen by his presence on this occasion. 
Before I proceed to the principal subject to which I have alluded, 
perhaps you will allow me, for his Excellency’s information, as well as 
for yours, to give a short account of the history of the Cunningham 
Medals, and the different plans that have been, at different times, adopted 
of awarding them. 
Timothy Cunningham, of Gray’s Inn, London, left to the Academy, 
by his will, the sum of £1000. This bequest was notified to the Council 
August 1, 1789, and to the Academy, October 31, 1789; and in these 
facts, I am sorry to say, is contained almost all I know of our benefactor. 
The Academy made every effort to obtain a bust or a picture of him, but 
no such memorial was in existence. 
