favoured with many valuable remarks and corrections from the Rev. Geo. Ashby, late
Fellow of St John's College, in Cambridge, which are not particularly pointed out,
because they occur so often. He was no less obliged to Thomas Butler, Esq., F.A.S.,
agent to the Duke of Northumberland, and Clerk of the Peace for the county of
Middlesex, whose extensive knowledge of ancient writings, records, and history has
been of great use to the Editor in hie attempts to illustrate the literature or manners of
our ancestors. Some valuable remarks were procured by Samuel Legge, Esq., author
of that curious work theCurialia, 4to; but this impression was too far advanced to
profit by them all; which hath also been the case with a series of learned and
ingenious annotations inserted in theGentleman's Magazinefor August, 1793; April,
June, July, and October, 1794; and which it is hoped will be continued.
- Since keeper of the Records in the Tower.