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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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