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Anniversary Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Francis Wormald
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At the end of this first full year of my office as your President I wish to thank every Fellow of the Society for the kindness and support that they have shown me and naturally above all I must thank my fellow officers whose patience and counsel have been unbounded. 1967 is an important year for the Society, for in it we celebrate our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. The Council has considered what should be done to mark this occasion and it has been decided that this will take the form of an Anniversary Party to beheld from 5.30 to 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, the 12th of October. There will be some guests, but Fellows will be asked to subscribe towards their own entertainment. Two hundred and fifty years is half five hundred years, yet I still feel that the Old Lady of Burlington House is quite young for her age. Long may she remain so, and it is right and proper to salute the young as well as the not so young who make up our membership and to beg them to keep her ever in her pristine freshness and enterprise.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , September 1967 , pp. 159 - 165
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1967

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page 162 note 1 Dr. Radford has also kindly drawn my attention to some fragments of plaster from Burgh Castle, Suffolk, which may date from the seventh century.

page 162 note 2 See The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A revised translation, ed. Whitelock, D., 1961, p. 60Google Scholar, citing Chronicle ‘F’.

page 163 note 1 See particularly the border of the arch in the miniature of St. Matthew in the Abbeville Gospels, Abbeville Bibl. Municipale 4, f. 17b, see W. Koehler, Die Karolingischen Miniaturen, ii (Die Hofschule Karls des Grossen), pl. 38a; see also London, British Museum, Harley MS. 2788, f. 12b, reproduced in W. Koehler, op. cit., pl. 53, and Paris, Bibl. Nat. lat. 8850, f. 17b, Gospels of Saint Médard de Soissons, reproduced by W. Koehler, op. cit., pl. 81.

page 163 note 2 E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, xi, no. 1642.

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