vi INTRODUCTION have stooped to such fabrications, and it must charitably be assumed that it was some trusted assistant who betrayed him. That the Public Record Office should without delay produce an authoritative list of these summonses, down, say to the end of James II, is a consummation devoutly to be wished. Among those genealogists who have kindly helped the Editor with notes and corrections, besides those already mentioned in Vol. I, are, in alphabetical order, Bright Brown, of Manila, Reginald M. Glencross, and J. Maitland Thomson, LL.D. The coronet on the cover, regarding which the Editor has had several enquiries, is from the Garter Plate of Sir John Nevill, Lord Montagu, K.G., 1461/2. The Editor hopes that his subscribers may consider it to be some com- pensation to them for the long delay in the appearance of this volume that it contains Appendixes B and D, which have entailed on him and his collabora- tors an immense amount of work which, he trusts, will not be held to have been thrown away.
