THE ADVISORY COUNCIL 

 OF THE VICTORIA HISTORY 



His Grace The Lord Arch- 

 bishop OF Canterbury 



His Grace The Duke of 

 Bedford, K.G. 

 Fretident of the ZooUpcal Society 



His Grace The Duke of 

 Portland, K.G. 



His Grace The Duke of 

 Argyll, K.G., K.T. 



The Rt. Hon. The Earl of 

 rosebery and midlothian, 

 K.G., K.T. 



The Rt. Hon. The Earl of 

 Coventry 

 Late Preiident of the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society 



The Rt. Hon. The Viscount 

 Dillon 



Late President of the Society of 

 Antiquariei 



The Rt. Hon. The Lord Lister 



Late President of the Royal Society 



Thb Rt. Hon. The Lord 

 Alverstone, G.C.M.G. 



Lord Chief Justice 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 M.P. 



The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick 

 Pollock, Bart.,LL.D., F.S.A., 

 era 



Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, 

 K.C.B.,D.C.L.,LL.D.,F.S.A., 

 etc. 



Late Director of the British Museum 



Sir Clements R. Markka m, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., F.S.A. 



Late President of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society 



Sir Henry C. Maxwell-Lyte, 

 K.C.B., M.A., F.S.A., etc. 



Keeper of the Public Records 



Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., 

 LL.D., M.A., F.R.S., etc. 



Late Director of the Nat. Hist. 

 Museum^ South Kensington 



Sir Jos. Hooker, G.C.S.I.,M.D., 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., ETC. 



Col. Sir Duncan A. Johnston, 

 K.C.M.G., C.B., R.E. 



Late Director General of the Ord- 

 nance Survey 



Sir Archibald Geikie, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., etc. 



Rev. J. Charles Cox, LL.D., 

 F.S.A., etc. 



Lionel Cust, M.V.O., M.A., 



F.S.A., ETC. 

 Late Directi r of the National Por- 

 trait Gallery 



Charles H. Firth, M.A., LL.D. 



Regius Professor of Modern Hiitory, 

 Oxford 



Albert C. L. G. Gunther, M. A., 

 M.D., F.R.S., Ph.D. 



Late President of the Linnean Society 



F. Haverfield, M.A., LL.D., 

 F.S.A. 



Camden Professor of Ancient History 



Reginald L. Poole, M.A., Ph.D. 



University Lecturer in Diplomatic^ 

 Oxford 



J. Horace Round, M.A., LL.D. 



Walter Rye 



W. H. St. John Hope, M.A. 



Among the original members of 

 the Council were 



The Late Duke of Devonshire 

 The Late Duke of Rutland 

 The Late Marquess of Salisbury 

 The Late Dr. Mandell 



Creighton, Bishop of London 

 The Late Dr. Stubbs, Bishop 



of Oxford 



The Late Lord Acton 



The Late Sir William Flower 



The Late Col. Sir J. Farqu- 



HARSON 



The Late Sir John Evans 

 The Late Professor F. York 

 Powell 



General Editor — William Page, F.S.A. 



GENERAL ADVERTISEMENT 



The Victoria History of the Counties of England is a National Historic Survey 

 which, under the direction of a large staff comprising the foremost students in science, history, 

 and archaeology, is designed to record the history of every county of England in detail. This 

 work was, by gracious permission, dedicated to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, who gave it 

 her own name. It is the endeavour of all who are associated with the undertaking to make it 

 a worthy and permanent monument to her memory. 



Rich as every county of England is in materials for local history, there has hitherto been 

 no attempt made to bring all these materials together into a coherent form. 



Although from the seventeenth century down to quite recent times numerous county 

 histories have been issued, they are very unequal in ifierit ; the best of them are very rare 

 and costly ; most of them are imperfect and many are now out of date. Moreover, they were 

 the work of one or two isolated scholars, who, however scholarly, could not possibly deal 

 adequately with all the varied subjects which go to the making of a county history. 



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