Welsh Journals

124 PROCEEDINGS 1908-1909 Council propose to have done. The report concluded with expressions of confidence that the great interest and care which was evinced by the Sandbach Urban District Council with regard to these ancient relics formed a good guarantee for their preservation. A vote of thanks was accorded the Sub-Committee for their services. Dr. J C. Bridge was granted the loan of the Bass Recorder from the Society's collection, upon the usual conditions, for the purpose of illustrating a lecture. At a Meeting of the Council, held on Tuesday, 22nd December, 1908, the Venerable Archdeacon Barber in the Chair, the Hon. Curator reported the various presentations to the Society, amongst which was a collection of objects found during excavations upon the site of the new Tele¬ phone Exchange, which were presented to the Society by the National Telephone Company. The Chairman reported the presentation to the Society, by Sir Delves L. Broughton, Bart., of " Records of an old Cheshire Family " (a history of the lords of the manors of Delves, near Uttoxeter, in the County of Stafford, and Doddington, in the County of Chester), written by himself; and a vote of thanks was accorded him for his kind gift. The Sub-Committee appointed to revise the Rules of the Society submitted their proposals, embodying various alterations, which were adopted. It was decided to forward a copy of the Report of the Sub-Committee upon the Sandbach Crosses to the Clerk to the Sandbach Urban District Council (Mr. A. E. Stringer). It was arranged that the Rev. F. G. Slater (Vicar of Ince) should give his paper upon " Early Eighteenth Century Brasses in Ince Church," at the January Sessional Meeting.