CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY......Part VII AFTER DINNER – LOCAL HERALDRY. After dinner, at “the Crown”, in the evening, several complimentary toasts were given and responded to. PROFESSOR HARKNESS spoke at some length of the connection between archaeology and geology, which year by year were being, as it were, dovetailed into each other, and suggested that that Society might very profitably deal with the subject of caves – those caves which had been already discovered in the north of England, and which belonged to a very early period of man’s existence. The caves themselves were not of such ancient origin as other things which they revealed. It was probably that beneath the hard stalagmite floor there would be found the bones of extinct animals. Such had been the case in some other caves, and he mentioned a very interesting cave at Settle. At the evening meeting MR. JACKSON read a paper by MR. LEES, entitled “An attempt to trace the Translation f St. Cuthbert through Cumberland and Westmoreland”. MR. MOWSON read a paper descriptive of an ancient burial place discovered near Lowther; and COL. BRISTOW spoke of an immense Buddish burial ground in India, 200 feet in diameter, which he had explored, but only found the calcined bones of probably one individual, doubtless some great man. PROFESSOR HARKNESS further described some human remains and a memorial stone found near Brougham Castle. MR. S. FERGUSON read a continuation of his interesting studies of Local Heraldry, the first part of which we printed last year. We give a summary of second part: – In the former paper were mentioned two heraldic visitations of Cumberland, one by DUGDALE extending over the years 1664-66. Since then the writer had discovered an interestingn relic and some curious facts relating to DUGDALE’s visitation. The relic is a pedigree on vellum in the possession of MR. STANLEY, of Ponsonby Hall, which, commencing with WILLIAM STANLEIGH, lord of Stanleigh in Staffordshire, about the time of EDWARD II, brings down to 1592 in parallel columns the pedigrees of the STANLEYs of Cheshire, the STANLEYs of Cumberland, and the STANLEYs of Lee in Susex, their arms and those of the families with which they married being most beautifully painted in brillian colours. From 1592 the pedigree has been continued in an equally beautiful manner, but giving the Cumberland branch alone down to 1665, when it is signed by DUGDALE thus: “Entered in the Visn. of Cumbd. at Egreemont. 3 Arilis, A.D. 1665, by me Willm. Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms”. Few families can have so magnificent a pedigree to show as this. ...................AFTER DINNER – LOCAL HERALDRY will continue........................ _____________________ Barb, Ontario, Canada