THE ADVISORY COUNCIL 

 OF THE VICTORIA HISTORY 



His Grace The Lord Arch- 

 bishop OF Canterbury 



His Grace The Duke of 

 Bedford, K.G. 



President of the Zoological Society 



His Grace The Duke of Devon- 

 shire, K.G. 



Cbancellor of the University of Cambridge 



His Grace The Duke of 



Rutland, K.G. 

 His Grace The Duke of 



Portland, K.G. 

 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 



Late President of the Society of Anli- 



The Rt. Hon. The Lord Lister 



Late President of the Royal Society 



The Rt. Hon. The Lord 

 Alverstone, G.C.M.G. 



Lord Chief Justice 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 M.P. 



Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., 

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



Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., 

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



Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, 

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



etc. Director of the British Museum 



Sir Clements R. Markham, 

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



President of the Royal Geographical 

 Society 



Sir Henry C. 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. 



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

 F.S.A., etc. 



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



F.S.A., ETC. 



Director of the National Portrait Gallery 



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



Regius Professor of Modern History, 



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

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



Late President of the Lmnean Society 



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



F.S.A. 

 Col. Duncan A. Johnston, C.B., 



R.E. 



L^te Director General of the Ordnance 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, M.A., 

 F.R.S., etc. 



Director of the Natural History 

 Museum, South Kensington 



Reginald L. Poole, M.A. 



University Lecturer in Diplomatic, 

 Oxford 



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



Walter Rye. 



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



Assistant Secretary of the Society of 

 Antiquaries 



Among the original members of 



the Council were 

 The late Marquess of Salisbury 

 The late Dr. Mandell Creigh- 



TON, Bishop of London 

 The late Dr. Stubbs, Bishop of 



Oxford 

 The Late Lord Acton 

 The Late Sir William Flower 

 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 

 w^ork 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 merit ; 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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