THE reception of our former volume was gratifying. We trust that this may be no less acceptable. Our special thanks are due to Henry Bradshaw, esq., M.A. fellow of King's college, for numerous extracts from the records of that society; to the Rev. William George Clark, M.A. public orator, for the loan of the books containing the letters written on behalf of the university by his predecessors in office; to the Rev. John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, M.A. fellow of S. John's college, for access to the ancient register of that house containing the admission of officers, fellows, scholars, and other members; and to the Rev. Joseph Romilly. M.A. registrary of the university. We are under continued obligations to many of the gentlemen mentioned in the preface to our first volume. We have also the pleasure to acknowledge assistance received from several anonymous correspondents, and from John Thomas Abdy, esq., LL.D. Regius professor of laws; Robert Ascroft, esq. town clerk of Preston; the Rev. Edward Atkinson, D.D. master of Clare college; Henry Blenkinsop, esq. of Warwick; the Rev. Mynors Bright, M.A. fellow and tutor of Magdalen college; the Rev. Thomas Brocklebank, M.A. fellow of King's college; Edward S. Byam, esq.; the Rev. James Cartmell, D.D. master of Christ's college; Richard Caulfield, esq., B.A. of Cork; the Rev. William Keatinge Clay, B.D. vicar of Waterbeach; John Payne Collier, esq., F.S.A.; the Rev. Basil Henry Cooper, B.A.; the Rev. John William Donaldson, D.D.; the Rev. Roger Dawson Dawson-Duffield, M.A.; the Rev. Henry Thomas Ellacombe, M.A. rector of Clyst S. George; the Rev. William Emery, B.D. fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi college; the viii Rev. Henry Freeman, M.A. rector of Folksworth; the Rev. John Fuller, B.D. fellow and tutor of Emmanuel college; Thomas Charles Geldart, esq., LL.D. master of Trinity hall; the Rev. David Thomas Gladstone, M.A. of Guiseley; the Very Rev. Harvey Goodwin, D.D. dean of Ely; the Rev. Alexander B. Grossat of Kinross; Daniel Gurney, esq., F.S.A.; the Rev. Alfred Hackman, M.A. of Christ church Oxford; Mr. John W. Hanna of Downpatrick; the Rev. John Hailstone, M.A. vicar of Bottisham; the Rev. James Augustus Hessey, D.C.L. head master of Merchant Taylors' school; the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne, B.D.; Joseph Jackson Howard, esq., F.S.A.; Joseph Hunter, esq., F.S.A.; the late Rev. David Laing, M.A. rector of S. Olave Hart street; Robert Lemon, esq., F.S.A.; W. J. Lightfoot, esq. of Sandhurst Kent; the late lord Macaulay; the Rev. Francis Martin, M.A. one of the senior fellows of Trinity college; the Rev. John Martin, M.A. vicar of S. Andrew the Great; the Rev. Alexander Napier, M.A. vicar of Holkham; George Ormerod, esq., D.C.L. the venerable historian of Cheshire; the late Rev. George Pearson, B.D. rector of Castle Camps; Richard Laurence Pemberton, esq.; the Rev. Hugh Pigot, M.A. of Hadleigh Suffolk; the Rev. Robert Phelps, D.D. master of Sidney Sussex college; the Rev. Josiah Pratt, M.A. vicar of S. Stephen Coleman street; Charles Kentish Probert, esq. of Newport Essex; the Rev. John Raine, M.A. of York; the Rev. Francis Robert Raines, M.A. of Milnrow; the Rev. John James Raven, M.A.; the Rev. Benjamin Richings, M.A. vicar of Mancetter; the Rev. Charles John Robinson, M.A. of Sevenoaks; the Rev. Samuel Stones Rusby, M.A. rector of Coton; the Rev. John James Smith, M.A. vicar of Loddon; John Sykes, esq., M.D. of Doncaster; and B. Woodcroft, esq. of the Great Seal Patent Office. Owing to unavoidable circumstances, a few of the memoirs in this volume ought to have appeared in the first, and there are other instances in which it has not been found practicable to adhere to a strictly chronological arrangement. CAMBRIDGE, January, 1851. |