12 INTRODUCTION. 



I must here take the opportunity of expressing my 

 thanks to Mr. Sydney Buxton, M.P., the Rev. Julian 

 Tuck, and Messrs. Sutton Davies, F. Boyes, C. Greaves, 

 J. T. Proud, W. Denison Roebuck, and many others who 

 have supphed me with most useful and interesting notes 

 on the subject. 



J. R. B. M. 

 rosehill, 

 Cheadle, 



Stafforushiee, 

 1897. 



