"And in this undertaking, the Reader may see what Furniture (though it lie disperst) our
Publick Records will afford for History: and how plentifully our own may be supplied and improved, if
pains were taken therein for what is hitherto made publick, hath been collected, chiefly out of old
Annals, and they filled with few things but such as were very obvious, nay the Annalists themselves
(for the must pait residing in Monasteries) too oftened byass'd with Interest, and Affection, to Times.
and Persons: But on the contrary, in our publick Records lye matter of Fact, in full Truth, and
therewith the Chronological part, carried on, even to days of the Month. So that an industrious
Searcher may thence collect considerable matter for new History, rectifie many mistakes in our old
and in both gratifie the world with unshadowed verity."-(ASHMOLE'S History of the Garter.)

LONDON:

HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE,
Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1899.

HARRISON AND SONS,

PRINTERS IN ORTINARY TO HER MAJESTY,

ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

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The William Salt Archæological Society.

1899.

COUNCIL.

Nominated by the Trustees of the William Salt Library.

THE RIGHT HON. LORD WROTTESLEY.

CAPTAIN CONGREVE.

THE VEN. ARCHDEACON LANE.

SIR REGINALD HARDY, BART.

MR. W. S. BROUGH.

Elected by the Members of the Society.

MAJOR-GENERAL THE HON. GEORGE WROTTESLEY.

THE REV. F. P. PARKER.

SIR THOMAS SALT, BART.

THE REV. W. BERESFORD.

THE REV. E. R. O. BRIDGEMAN.

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE.

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Gardens.

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THE REV. W. BERESFORD, St. Luke's Vicarage, Leek.

TREASURER.

MR. PERCEVAL HANBURY HARSTON,

AUDITOR.

MR. WILLIAM MORGAN.

HONORARY SECRETARY.

MAJOR-GENERAL THE HON. GEORGE WROTTESLEY.

HONORARY SOLICITOR.

MR. W. H. DUIGNAN.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY.

MR. JOHN W. BRADLEY, The William Salt Library, Stafford

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