PREFACE vii 



Colonel Nathaniel Whetham (1907) was a profitable 

 exercise in genealogical research as well as in historical 

 method and the use of records. 



Thus, whatever be the fate of this work the 

 result, in its present form, of the scanty leisure of ten 

 strenuous years we take leave of the manuscript 

 with a sense that to us it sums up a period of widen- 

 ing mental outlook and of increasing interest in the 

 varied phenomena of society, of life, and of thought. 



W. C. D. W. 



CAMBRIDGE, C. D. W. 



September 1912. 



