EDITORIAL NOTE 



The editor has, with much regret, to announce that since the 

 pubHcation of the first volume of the Victoria County History of 

 Norfolk, Mr, Walter Rye, owing to failing eyesight and other causes, 

 has been obliged to relinquish the editorship of Volumes III, IV, V, 

 and VI of the Victoria County History of Norfolk. Mr. Rye has, however, 

 placed at the disposal of the editor the material he had collected for his 

 work. In consequence of certain alterations necessitated in the scheme 

 for the article on the Political History of the county prepared by 

 Mr, Rye, which for the same reasons had to be made by other hands, 

 Mr. Rye thought it would be better that the article should not be 

 wholly attributed to him. 



It was with much regret also the editor learnt from Canon Jessopp 

 that in consequence of ill-health he had been compelled to relinquish the 

 greater part of the article on the Ecclesiastical History of the county 

 which he had undertaken. 



The editor wishes to express his gratitude to the Rev. William 

 Hudson, M.A., F.S.A., for much advice and assistance, and particularly 

 for reading the proofs of several of the articles ; and also to Mr. J. Horace 

 Round, M.A., LL.D., for revising the proofs of the article on the Intro- 

 duction to Domesday. He is likewise indebted to Mr. G. E. Fox, 

 Hon. M.A., F.S.A., for the use of his drawings of ancient paintings for 

 reproduction ; to Mr. W. T. Bensly, LL.D., F.S.A., and Mr. L. Boling- 

 broke, for assistance and advice ; Mr. E. M. Beloe, jun.. Rev. Francis 

 Lane, the British Archaeological Association and others for illustrations. 



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