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=MEMORIALS OF OLD NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.= Edited by P. W. P. Phillimore,
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=MEMORIALS OF OLD SUSSEX.= Edited by Percy D. Mundy.
=MEMORIALS OF NORTH WALES.= Edited by E. Alfred Jones.
=MEMORIALS OF OLD MANXLAND.= Edited by John Quine, M.A.
=MEMORIALS OF OLD SUFFOLK.= Edited by Vincent B. Redstone.
=MEMORIALS OF SOUTH WALES.= Edited by E. Alfred Jones.
=MEMORIALS OF OLD STAFFORDSHIRE.= Edited by W. Beresford.
=MEMORIALS OF OLD MONMOUTHSHIRE.= Edited by Colonel Bradney, F.S.A.,
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OLD ENGLISH GOLD PLATE.
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LONGTON HALL PORCELAIN.
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THE VALUES OF OLD ENGLISH SILVER & SHEFFIELD PLATE. FROM THE FIFTEENTH
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HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH PORCELAIN AND ITS MANUFACTURES.
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MANX CROSSES; or The Inscribed and Sculptured Monuments of the Isle of
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DERBYSHIRE CHARTERS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIBRARIES AND MUNIMENT ROOMS.
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SOME DORSET MANOR HOUSES, WITH THEIR LITERARY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS.
By Sidney Heath, with a fore-word by R. Bosworth Smith, of Bingham’s
Melcombe. Illustrated with forty drawings by the Author, in addition
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THE CHURCH PLATE OF THE DIOCESE OF BANGOR.
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Transcriber’s notes:
In the text version, italics are represented by _underscores_, and bold
and black letter text by =equals= symbols. Inconsistent hyphenation
and spellings have been left as printed except as noted below. Small
punctuation errors have been silently corrected.
Superscripts are represented by ^{} and subscripts by _{}
[=a]represents a with a line above and [~p] represents p with a tilde
above
In the majority of cases, spelling has been left as printed but a small
number of errors which obscure the meaning for the reader have been
corrected.
Both uncorrected and corrected spellings are noted below.
Some incorrect puntuation has been silently corrected
p14 acordance left as printed.
p70 betwen left as printed.
p165,166 The variable spellings of Bradshaw(e) have been left
as printed.
p170 The footnote on this page has no anchor, so it is assumed
that it refers to preceding paragraph.
p180 A very wide genealogie chart has been rewritten with keys
to fit in page width restrictions. The original may be seem
as an illustration.
The following notes relate to this.
Willm. The l's have crossbars
Humph. T H's have crossbars.
fftafford. ff represent long s's.
co-heires left as printed.
p196 Jahrhunderts (footnote 65)left as printed.
p258 -- added after Chesterfield section title.
p265 stall-ends changed to stall ends.
p330 blackmith (footnote 89) left as printed.
p373 continnue left as printed.
p374 everry left as printed.
p391 Secret Chambers and Hiding places, hyphenation removed to
match text.