opportunity of thanking them both, not only for
helping me at Hull but also for looking up points for
me in my absence. It is interesting to note that Mr.
Heseltine's father, who was Warden's Clerk fifty years
ago, is similarly thanked by Grosart in the preface to
his second volume.

My researches at Hull were materially assisted by
the City Librarian, Mr. W. H. Bagguley, who also
very kindly tent the Hollar print reproduced in
Volume II.

I have to thank the Society of Antiquaries for al-
lowing me to reproduce Marvell's letter to Cromwell,
and the Assistant Secretary, Mr. H. S. Kingsford, for
having (before the letter had been photographed)
kindly corrected my text by the original. I am
indebted to his Grace the Duke of Portland for
Miscellaneous Letters nos. 18, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30 and,
in particular, to the Librarian at Welbeck Abbey, Mr.
R. W. Goulding, who not only supplied me with copies
but was also good enough to check my proofs by the
originals: to Mr. H. Guppy, the John Rylands
Librarian, for sending me a rotograph of no. 20: and
to the late Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris, M.P., for
no. 21.

H. M. M.

OXFORD, 26 April 1927.

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