PREFACE 



The Editor wishes to express his thanks to Mr. J. H. Round, 

 M.A., L.L.D., for revising the articles on the Domesday Survey and 

 Leicestershire Survey; to Mr- G. E. Fox, Hon. M.A. Oxon., F.S.A., and 

 to Major W. J. Freer, V.D., F.S.A., for assistance on the article on the 

 Roman Remains of the county ; to Mr. A. R. Horwood, acting 

 curator of the Leicester Museum, for information as to the collections 

 under his charge, and for many notes and additions to the articles on 

 Molluscs and Botany ; to Mr. I. Chalkley Gould, F.S.A.,for revising the 

 article on Earthworks ; to Mr. J. T. Biggs and the Committee of the 

 Leicester Corporation Museum for permission to photograph objects in 

 the Museum ; to Mr. W. B. Worthington, engineer-in-chief of the 

 Midland Railway, Derby, for permission to photograph the Anglo- 

 Saxon objects found at Saxby in his charge ; and to the Society of 

 Antiquaries, the Archaeological Institute, the Leicester Architectural 

 and Archaeological Society, the Associated Architectural and Archaeo- 

 logical Societies, and the Illustrated London News for illustrations. 



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