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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858   page xli

INAUGURAL MEETING of the Kent Archaeological Society

names, already published as Vice-Presidents, which it is necessary to submit to this Meeting for re-election, in consequence of an alteration of the Rule which stated that all Members of Parliament who subscribed, wherever they might reside, should be ex officio Vice-Presidents. In the revision of the Rules, it has been thought better to limit this privilege to proprietors and residents in the county. The Resolution, therefore, which I now submit to you, includes the name of the Hon. Thomas Mostyn, M.P., who has no residence in the county, and that of Sir Edward Bering, Bart., who has ceased to be a Member of Parliament since the first list was published, but who it is very desirable, for many reasons, should be among our Vice-Presidents. As so many gentlemen who have a more extensive knowledge of Archaeology than I can boast, have to address the Meeting, I shall conclude by at once proposing the Resolution which has been placed in my hands.
   "That the following gentlemen he elected Vice-Presidents of the
Society:—
      The Very Reverend the Dean of Canterbury.
      The Very Reverend the Dean of Rochester.
      The Venerable the Archdeacon of Maidstone.
      The Venerable the Archdeacon of Rochester.
      The Hon. Thomas Mostyn, M.P.
      Sir Edward Dering, Bart.
      Sir Norton Knatchbull, Barfe.
      Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, Bart."
   [Carried unanimously.]

Sir BROOK BRIDGES, in moving the third Resolution, said:—
   Most of us who are gathered together on this interesting occasion, have been accustomed from our earliest years to congratulate ourselves in belonging to one of the most important counties in England. We have always felt proud of being "Men of Kent," and I am astonished, not that we have met together on this occasion in such numbers, but that a Society
of this nature has not been formed long ago. In ancient times Kent occupied a prominent position on many important occasions. In the time of the Saxon Heptarchy, Kent itself was one of the seven kingdoms,—a distinction possessed by no other county. With all the interesting materials scattered

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