I 1 6 Report of Brand Couiiiiittcc.
The material collected has been copied according" to the directions issued by the Committee on slips of a fixed uniform size. Salvage copies of the publications of the Society have been cut up and the extracts pasted on slips in the same way. Mr. Wright has so pasted down a late edition of Ellis's " Brand," which will form the groundwork of the Society's publication ; also Hone's Every Day, Year, (iiiti Table Books, and Chambers's Book 'of Days. It has been found that reading stimulates collection, and this is what was to be expected.
The various extracts received consist, besides those immediately relating to the Calendar, of a certain amount of matter on I^^olklore generally. These miscellaneous extracts will be put aside for fut.ure volumes, as the imme- diate object is the satisfactory arrangement of the material collected for the special division of the Calendar.
Of previous systematic additions to Brand, two annotated copies of the quarto Ellis's " Brand " may be noted as in the British Museum Library ; one among the Printed Books and the other (added to by Joseph Hunter) in the Manu- script Department (add, MSS. 24,544, -4-545)- It will probably be well to leave the consideration of these until the materials in hand are nearer completion. Otherwise there would be some fear of confusion.
An annotated copy of Bohn's edition of IClUs's " Brand," which was prepared by the late William Kelly, has been kindly lent to the Committee by Mr. C. J. Billson.
The Committee will be grateful for any information respecting other annotated copies of Ellis's " Brand.'
The work done so far may be summarised as follows. In England the "slipped" collections for the North and East Ridings, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Hereford- shire may be considered sufficiently complete. Shropshire, which has also been well recorded, is in hand. Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, and Devon are well advanced in the hands of competent workers. A good deal of
