Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

PREFACE.
IX
Tho editor desires to acknowledge his obligations:—To Sir
Jonathan Backhouse, bart., for the fullest use of his contemporary
copy of Sanderson's diary; to Mr. F. C. Beazley,
F.S.A., foi- collating' the proofs of Sanderson's diary with
the original MS. in the possession of his kinswoman, Mrs.
G. II. ("lover; to Mr. William Bell, for the generous gift of
lirown's diary; to Mr. William Brown, F.S.A., for reading
proofs and for other assistance; to Dr. C. C. Burman, for his
liberal permission to print from the originals four letters of
the Bev. Percival Stockdale ;
to Mr. H. H. E. Craster, Fellow
of All Souls, for some useful and appropriate notes; to Mr.
F. W. Dendy, for reading the proofs and for valued counsel;
to Mr. ("hailes Forster for help in constructing the pedigree
of Thomlinson: to Miss M. T. Martin, for her accurate transcripts
of Aston 's and Thomliuson's diaries from the originals
in the British Museum and for collating the proofs of ambiguous
passages with the MS. ; to Mr. Richard Welford,
M.A., for reading the proofs and other valuable assistance;
to Mr. H. M. Wood, B.A., for many extracts from Parish
Registers to prove the accuracy of corresponding entries in
the diaries and for other generous help : and to all others who
have imparted information.
Alnwick, April, 191U.
J. C. HODGSOX.