An Evening Meeting was held at 22, Albemarle Street, on Wednesday, December 21st, 1892; the President (Mr. G. L. Gomme) in the chair.
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
The following new members were elected: Mrs. Fuller Maitland and Mr. Egerton Beck.
Mrs. Gomme exhibited some rubbings of games cut on stones found at Norwich Castle, and exhibited at the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries: (1) A Spiral Game (not at present known to survive in any modern form), consisting of a long line with a hole in the centre, and a series of smaller holes at equal distances along the line. (2) A roughly-drawn "3-squares", one inside the other. (3) The Fox and Geese game.
A printed version of the Mummers' Play, sent by Mr. W. H. Patterson of Garranard, Strandtown, Belfast, was also exhibited.
The Secretary read a short paper by Mrs. Murray Aynsley on "The Sin Eater", and a discussion followed, in which the Rev. C. Swynnerton and Mr. E. S. Hartland took part. The Secretary also read a short paper by Mr. E. Peacock on "The Cow Mass formerly held at Dunkirk".
Mr. E. S. Hartland then read his paper "On a Marriage Custom of the Aborigines of Bengal", and in the discussion which followed the Rev. C. Swynnerton, Mr. Jacobs, Mr. J. Stuart-Glennie, Mr. Nutt, Mr. Brynmor Jones, and the President took part.
Short papers by Dr. Codrington ("The Story of Lata" from St. Cruz, and "The Story of Hole in his Back" from the Banks Group) and by Mr. E. Peacock on the Abolition of Scenic Processions, were also read.
A Joint Meeting of the Folk-lore Society and the Cymmrodorion Society was held in the rooms of the latter, Lonsdale Chambers, 27, Chancery Lane, on Wednesday, January nth, 1893; D. Brynmor Jones, Esq., M.P. in the chair.
A paper was read by Professor John Rhys, M.A., on "The Folk-lore of certain Sacred Wells in Wales".
The Annual Meeting was held at 22, Albemarle Street, on Wednesday, January 25th, 1893; the President (Mr. G. L. Gomme) in the chair.
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
The election of the following new members was announced, viz,: Dr. James Gow, the Rev. C. Swynnerton, Mr. H. K. Gow, Miss Lucy Garnett, and Miss Constance Tayler.
