THE ADVISORY COUNCIL 

 OF THE VICTORIA HISTORY 



His GRACE THE LORD ARCH- SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., 

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



His GRACE THE DUKE OF SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., 

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



President of the Zoological Society 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF DEVON- 

 SHIRE, K.G. 



Chancellor of the University of Cam- 

 bridge 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF 

 RUTLAND, K.G. 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF 



SIR EDWARD MAUNDE THOMP- 

 SON, 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 Recordt 



PORTLAND, K.G. 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF 



ARGYLL, K.T. 

 THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF COL. SIR J. FARQUHARSON, K.C.B. 



ROSEBERY, K.G., K.T. SIR Jos. HOOKER, G.C.S.I., M.D., 



^ D u -r 17 D.C.L., F.R.S., ETC. 



THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF 



COVENTRY 



President of the Royal Agricultural F.R.S., ETC. 



SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, LL.D., 



Society 



REV. J. CHARLES Cox, LL.D., 



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



^President of the Society of L ' N * L A CuST > M.V.O., M.A., 



Antiquaries 



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. 



F.S.A., ETC. 



Director of the National Portrait 

 Gallery 



CHARLES H. FIRTH, M.A., LL.D. 



Regius Professor of Modern History, 

 Oxford 



ALBERT C. L. G. GUNTHER, M. A., 

 M.D., F.R.S., PH.D. 



Late President of the Linnean Society 



F. HAVERFIELD, M.A., LL.D., 

 F.S.A. 



COL. DUNCAN A. JOHNSTON, C.B., 

 R.E. 



Late Director General of the Ordnance 

 Survey 



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 



]. HORACE ROUND, M.A., LL.D. 



WALTER RYE 



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



Assistant Secretary of the Society oj 

 Antiquaries 



Among the original members of 

 the Council were 



THE LATE MARQJJESS OF SALISBURY 



THE LATE DR. MANDELL 

 CREIGHTON, BISHOP OF LONDON 



THE LATE DR. STUBBS, BISHOP 

 OF OXFORD 



THE LATE LORD ACTON 



THE LATE SIR WILLIAM FLOWER 



and 

 THE LATE PROFESSOR F. YORK 



POWELL 



General Editor WILLIAM PACE, 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 archzology, 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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