of Suffolk. I quite admit that this work is not exhaustive, but 

 I have merely been deterred from making it practically so 

 by reason of the expense and the impossibility of a private 

 individual obtaining from a poor county the necessary financial 

 support. 



It seems absolutely necessary that each county should have 

 this work undertaken for it. No satisfactory history of the 

 county, or indeed of any particular place in, or family connected 

 with it, can be undertaken with assurance that it will prove 

 exhaustive until this initiative work has been effected. 



The particular Records and MSS. which I consider should 

 be worked on with the object of extracting the substance 

 therefrom of matters relating to the particular county are set 

 forth in my "Introductory Note" to the ist Vol. of my 

 " Records of Suffolk." Considering, however, the little support 

 the work has received, and that less than loo copies have been 

 sold, it is probable that few have seen this work. Consequently 

 I give the following extracts : — 



"The substance of all matters relating to Suffolk in the 

 publications of the Record Commissioners, the reports during 

 the last 60 years of the Deputy Keeper, the Calendars, and 

 other issues of the Public Record Office, and in the State 

 Papers, are brought together in the present work, and form 

 with the Index to the MSS. and Charters its backbone. The 

 scope will, perhaps, be better grasped if the principal sources 

 are specified. In the British Museum — the Sloane, the 

 Cottonian, the Harleian, the Royal, the Lansdowne, the 

 Burney, the King's, the Egerton, the Arundel and Additional 

 MSS., including in these the smaller collections of Birch, 

 Barrel), Cole, Gough, Hasted, Davy, Jermyn, Wolley, 

 Mitchell, Ward, Banks, Mangey, Chandler, Kerrick, Lysons, 

 Upcott, and others are drawn on. The great collections of 

 Tanner, Rawlinson, Digby, Gough, Douce and others, and the 

 general MSS. Charters and Rolls in the Bodleian, the Baker 

 and other MSS. in the University Library, Cambridge, and the 

 MSS. in the various college libraries have been laid under 



