THE ADVISORY COUNCIL 

 OF THE VICTORIA HISTORY 



His Grace The Lord Arch- 

 bishop or Canterbury 



His Grace The Duke of Bed- 

 ford, K.G. 



President of tbe Zoological Society 



His Grace The Duke of Devon- 

 shire, K.G. 



Chancellor of the University of Cam' 



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 Thomp- 

 son, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., 

 F.S.A., etc. 



Director of the Britiih 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 



Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., 

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



Director of the Natural History 

 Museum^ South Kensington 



President of (he Royal Agricultural CoL. SiR DuNCAN A. JoHNSTON, 



K.C.M.G., C.B., R.E. 



Late Director General oj the OrJnaiice 

 Sur'vey 



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 



harles Cox, LL.D., 

 F.S.A., etc. 

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

 F.S.A., etc. 



Director of the National Portrait 



bridge 



His Gr-^ce The Duke of Port- 

 land, 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 



Society 



The Rt. Hon. The Viscount 



of the Society of 



Dillon 



Late President 

 Antirjuaries 



The Rt. Hon. the Lord Lister 



Late President of the Royal Society 



The Rt. Hon. The Lord f c a 

 Alverstone, G.C.M.G. 



Lord Chief Justice 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild 

 M.P. 



Galler; 



General Editor — William Page, F.S 



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. 



Camden Professor of Ancient History 



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 



tlie Council were 

 The late Duke of Rutland 

 The late Marquess 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 

 The late Professor F. York 



Powell and 

 The late Col. Sir J. Farqu- 



harson 

 .A. 



GENERAL ADVERTISEMENT 



The Victoria History of the Counties of England is a National Historic Survey which, 

 under the direction of a large staflF comprising the foremost students in science, history, and 

 archaeology, 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 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 ade- 

 quately with all the varied subjects wliich go to the making of a county history. 



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