THE ADVISORY COUNCIL 

 OF THE VICTORIA HISTORY 



His GRACE THE LORD ARCH- SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., F. HAVERFIELD, M.A., LL.D., 



BISHOP OF CANTERBURY LL.D., F.S.A., ETC. F.S.A. 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., COL. DUNCAN A. JOHNSTON, C.B., 



BEDFORD, K.G. LL.D., F.R.S., ETC. R ' E ' . 



President of the Zoological Society La " Director General of the Ordnance 



TT _ _ _, SIR EDWARD MAUNDE THOMPSON, Survey 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF DEVON- trr>nr\r>TTTni?CAn T?T> T AT A 



j^ Q K.C.B.,D.C.L.,LL.D.,r.s.A., PROF. E.RAY LANKESTER, M.A., 



, ' / ', ',, . rr . , ., ETC. Director of the British Museum F.R.S.. ETC. 



Chancellor of the university of Cambridge 



,, ,-, n HIT Director of the Natural History 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, Museum, South Kensington 



RUTLAND, K.G. I ^ C ' V B -' Kl 2 /' ^ v / REGINALD L. POOLE, M.A. 



Present of the Royal Geographical c; mWj;> Lecturer in Dip 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF 

 PORTLAND, K.G. 



Society 



Oxford 



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SIR HENRY C. MAXWELL-LYTE, I. HORACE ROUND, M.A., LL.D. 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF K.C.B., M.A., F.S.A., ETC. WALTER RYE 



ARGYLL, K.T. Keeper of the Public Records 



W. H. ST. JOHN HOPE, M.A. 

 THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF SIR Jos. HOOKER, G.C.S.I., M.D., Assistant Secretary of the Society of 



ROSEBERY, K.G., K.T. D.C.L., F.R.S., ETC. Antiquaries 



THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF SlR ARCHIBALD G E IK IE, LL.D., Amon 8 the original members of 

 COVENTRY F R S ETC Council were 



President of the Royal Agricultural THE LATE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY 



Society REV. . CHARLES Cox. LL.D., , T-> T /- 



~ ., Vc- A THE LATE DR. MANDELL CREIGH- 



THE RT. HON. THE VISCOUNT F.S.A., ETC. 



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TON, BISHOP OF LONDON 



President of the Society of Anti- LlONEL CuST - M- V -O-, M.A., THE LATE DR. S T UBBS, BlSHOP OF 



r.S.A., ETC. OXFORD 



Dinctoref 'the National Portrait Gallery TH LATE LQRD ACTON 



H FIPTH M A T T Fi r. ir r> 



n. f TH, 1V1.A., L.L..U. ^HE LATE SlR WlLLIAM FLOWER 



Regius Professor of Modern History. _ ,, 



Oxford THE LATE PROFESSOR F. YORK 



L G Gt]tiTK ^ M ^ POWELL 



M.D., F.R.S., Pn.D. THE LATE COL. SIR J. FAROJJHAR- 



Late President of the Linnean Society SON, K.C.B. 



yuaries 

 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. 



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 archjeology, is designed to record the history of every county of England in detail. This 

 work 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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