PREFACE

Summary

We cannot submit this volume to the public without tendering our thanks to the Syndicate of the University library for unrestrained access to the noble collections there deposited. We must also express our sense of the courtesy of the Rev. Joseph Power, M.A., and Henry Bradshaw, esq., M.A. librarians. The latter gentleman has rendered us essential assistance with respect to various matters connected with Irish history and literature.

Our thanks are also due to the Reverend the Master and Fellows of S. John's college for the loan of their copy of Mr. Baker's MS. History of that society.

From the Rev. Joseph Romilly, M.A., registrary of the university, we have received much valuable information, communicated with such alacrity and urbanity as greatly to enhance our obligations.

The Rev. John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, M.A. fellow of S. John's college, has favoured us with the use of many rare books, and of his own extensive collections relative to the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has moreover obliged us with valuable suggestions and numerous useful and curious references.

We beg to thank the Rev. George Elwes Corrie, D.D. master of Jesus college, and the Rev. William George Searle, M.A. fellow of Queens' college, for the loan of MS. Lists of the fellows of their respective societies.

W. Munk, esq., M.D. has furnished us with copious extracts from his MS. Roll of the College of Physicians, and has cheerfully and promptly responded to various enquiries respecting members of the medical profession.