BY J. B. NICHOLS AND SONS, PARLIAMENT STREET. PUBLISHED BY J. H. AND J. PARKER, 377, STRAND. (TO BE OBTAINED BY THE PUBLIC THROUGH ALL BOOKSELLERS.) MDCCCLXIV. PREFACE. THE Council of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society are sorry to have to employ the same expression of regret, on the publication of this the Second Volume of their Transactions, as they did on the occasion of that of the First. The small subscription and the necessarily expensive character of the Public Meetings of the Society alike hinder that more frequent issue which would otherwise be practicable. They desire to add that it lies in the power of the members themselves to rectify the evil of which they complain. The Council have every reason to be satisfied with the reception accorded by Archæologists to the former volume, and confidently anticipate a similar amount of favour for that now offered to the reader. As in the previous pages, the range of subjects in those which follow embraces the majority of the departments most interesting to a London and Middlesex Archæologist. Saxon Antiquities, Mediæval Architecture, Manuscripts, Parochial and Monastic History, Biography, Heraldry, Numismatics, &c., will be found included in the list. The period of the Society's existence which this volume records is from the Nineteenth General Meet ing, held in Crosby Hall, on the 13th of December, 1859, to the 29th General Meeting, held at Hayes and Heston, on the 9th of August, 1864. The papers read on the last-named occasion are included, except Mr. Hugo's History of Moor Hall, in Harefield, which is necessarily delayed for lack of the illustrative engravings, and with which it is intended to com- mence the forthcoming Part of the Society's Trans- The Proceedings of the Evening Meetings down to the same date will be found at the end of the volume, An The Council, in conclusion, feel much pleasure in 1 |