Excerpt from Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns
Record Office, and the Duke of Westminster’s Collection of mss. At Eaton. I desire to put on record my grateful thanks to the officials, both in London and in Chester, for the invariable courtesy shown to me during my lengthened investigations. I would also express my deep obligation to several friends who have generously placed at my disposal engravings of old Chester, and otherwise rendered much valuable assistance. Among these special mention should be made of Mr. Herbert Williams, of Lincoln’s Inn, in matters of legal research; Mr. Leonard Hughes, Mr. Arthur Baker, Mr. E. W. Cox, Mr. Hodkinson, who have added considerably to the interest of the Volume by illustrations from their skilful pencil; Mr. Henry Taylor; Mr. John Murray for the loan of the block of the Durham Sanctuary Knocker; Rev. S. Cooper Scott, Mr. T. Q. Roberts, the Chester Archaeological Society, and Messrs. Longman Co., for other blocks.
A further acknowledgment is due. The Work, which’has considerably outgrown its scope as originally projected, and which has become enlarged from the promised 400 pages to 620, would perhaps never have been taken in-hand at all but for the warm interest taken in the subject by Mr. Alderman Charles Brown, who offered, with his usual generosity, to undertake the whole expense of publication rather than that the project should fall through. The acceptance of this kind offer was rendered unnecessary by the encouraging response which was made to the circular in which I invited friends in Cheshire and elsewhere, and the great Public Libraries, to subscribe in the usual way for copies of the Book. I trust that the present venture may be fortunate enough to meet with their approval, and that I may count upon their support in publishing, in a further volume, the very interesting and valuable material which is ready at hand relating to the stirring period of the Stuart Sovereigns.
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