nothing has been sold since publication, but then not a single 

 advertisement, I believe, has appeared in any paper. 



In order to demonstrate that a history of the County or 

 any place therein can be written or compiled exhaustively from 

 entries made in the way I have indicated I have actually 

 written seven volumes folio on the Manors of Suffolk, of which 

 the first volume has already been published. This work I did 

 in my spare time in about two years, and without such an 

 assistance as my 5 vols, of Records afforded, such a work 

 as that on the Manors, tracing them, or a large proportion, 

 from the Conquest to the present time — a history dealing with 

 something like 1,500 Manors — could not have been compiled 

 in many years, and then there would have been no absolute 

 assurance of its being exhaustive, and what is of even greater 

 importance there would have been no opportunity for the 

 author to take a bird's eye view of the whole material before 

 consideration of the parts — no possibility of comparing entries 

 under one place with entries under others — in short of testing 

 them one with another in such a mode as to bring the sources 

 of information and authority into a concentrated form. 



However, I must conclude with the expression of the hope 

 that I have met the desire of the Council so far as in my 

 power, and on the lines they have indicated. 



W. A. COPINGER. 



The following is a list of the contractions employed in the 

 above work : — 



A. — Ancient Deeds in Exchequer and Treasury of the Receipt, P.R.O. 



Abbr. of PI.— Abbreviation of Pleas, Ric. I. to Edw. II. jSii. 



Acts of P.C, — Calendar of Acts of Privy Council, 1542-1800. 



.Add.— '\dditional MSS., British Museum. 



Add. Ch. — Additional Charters, British Museum. 



A.J. — The Archa;ological Journal. 



All Souls.— All Souls College, Oxford. 



App. — Appendix. 



Arch. — Archajologia of the Society of Antiquaries. 



Arund. — Arundel MSS., British Museum. 



Aslim, — Ashmolean MSB., British Museum, 



