PREFACE 



Messrs. C. Butler, William Curtis, Montagu G. Knight, the Wardens of 

 New College and All Souls College, Oxford, and the Society of Anti- 

 quaries. The editors are also under special obligations to Mr. Montagu 

 G. Knight for presenting a drawing of Chawton House, and to Mr. 

 Knight, Sir J. C. Hubert Miller, Mr. Henry J. Button, Mr. Henry 

 Wheeler, and the clergy and numerous individuals throughout the 

 hundred for affording help in the manorial history of several parishes. 



Finally, the editors wish to acknowledge gratefully the contributions 

 on architecture voluntarily made by Mr. C. R. Peers and Mr. W. H. 

 St. John Hope. 



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