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THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND DESIGNED AS A PERMANENT MEMORIAL TO HER LATE MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA WHO IN HER LIFETIME GRACIOUSLY GAVE THE TITLE TO AND ACCEPTED THE DEDICATION OF THE HISTORY ADVISORY COUNCIL His Grace The Duke of Bedford, K.G. President of the Zoological Society His Grace The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. Chancellor of the University of Caynbridge His Grace The Duke of Rutland, K.G. His Grace The Duke of Portland, K.G. His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T. The Most Hon. The Marquess of Salisbury, K.G. Chancellor of the University of Oxford The Rt. Hon The Earl of Rosebery, K.G., K.T. The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Coventry President of the Royal Agricultural Society The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Dillon President of the Society of Antiquaries The Rt. Hon. The Lord Acton Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge The Rt. Hon. The Lord Lister President of the Royal Society The Rt. Hon. The Lord Alverstone Lord Chief Justioe Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., LL.D., F.S.A., etc. Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence, Oxford Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A., etc. Director of the British Museum General Editor — H. Sir Clements R. Markha/t, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.S.A. President of the Royal Geographical Society Sir Henry C. Maxweli.-Lyte, K.C.B., M.A., F.S.A., etc. Keeper of the Pttblic Records Col. Sir J. Farquharson, K.C.B. Sir Jos. Hooker, G.C.S.I., M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., etc. Sir Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., etc. Rev. J. Charles Cox, LL.D., F.S.A., etc. Lionel Cust, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., etc. Director of tfie National Portrait Gallery Albert C. L. G. Gunther, M.A., F.R.S., M.D., Ph.D. President of the Linnean Society Col. Duncan A. Johnston Director General of the Ordnance Survey Prof. E. Ray Lankester, M.A., F.R.S., etc. Director of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington Reginald L. Poole, Esq., M.A. University Lecturer in Diplomatic, Oxford F. York Powell, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., etc. Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford J. Horace Round, Esq., M.A. Walter Rye, Esq. W. H. St. John Hope, Esq., M.A. Assistant Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries Arthur Doubleday Offices 2 WHITEHALL GARDENS WESTMINSTER ♦