ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS 



THE 



VICTORIA HISTORY 



OF THE COUNTIES OF 



ENGLAND 



DEDICATED BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION 



TO HER LATE MAJESTY 



QUEEN VICTORIA 



ADVISORY COUNCIL 



His Grace The Duke of Bedford 



President of the Zoological Society 

 His Grace The Duke of Devonshire, 

 K.G. 

 Cliancellor of the University of Cam- 

 bridge 

 His Grace The Duke of Rutland, 



K.G. 

 His Grace The Duke of Portland 

 The Most Noble The Marquess of 

 Salisbury, K.G. 

 ChancellJyrofthe University of Oxford 

 His Grace The Duke of Argyll, 



K.T. 

 The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Rosebery, 



K.G., K.T. 

 The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Coventry 

 President of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society 

 The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Dillon 

 President of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries 

 The Lord Bishop of London 

 The Lord Bishop of Oxford 

 The Rt. Hon. The Lord Acton 



Regius Professor of Modem History, 

 Cambridge 

 The Rt. Hon. The Lord Lister 



President of t lie Royal Society 

 Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., LL.D., 

 F.S.A., etc. 

 Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence, 

 Oxford 

 Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, 

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

 Director of the British Museum 



Honorary Secretary — Aubyn B. R. 

 Honorary Treasurer — The Rt. 



Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., F.S.A. 

 President of the Royal Geographical 

 Society 

 Sir Henry Maxwell-Lyte, K.C.B., 

 M.A.. F.S.A., etc. 

 Keeper of the Public Records 

 Col. Sir J. Farquharson, K.C.B. 

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



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

 Sir Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 etc. 

 Director of the Geological Survey 

 Rev. J. Charles Cox, LL.D., F.S.A., 



ETC. 



Lionel Cust, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., etc. 

 Director of tite National Portrait 

 Gallery 

 Dr. Albert L. G. Gunther, F.R.S., 



President of the Linnean Society 

 CoL. Duncan A. Johnston 



Director General of t/ie Ordtiance 

 Survey 

 F. York Powell, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., 

 etc. 

 Regius Professor of Modem History, 

 Oxford 

 J. Horace Round, Esq., M.A. 

 Walter Rye, Esq. 

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



Assistant Secretary of the Society of 

 Antiquaries 



Trevor-Battye, M.A., F.L.S., etc. 

 Hon. The Earl of Cassillis. 



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