PREFACE. THE contents of this volume do not call for any special remark. Mr. J. Eyre Poppleton is to be congratulated on the completion of his description of the Church Bells of the West Riding. Those in the North Riding still remain to be done. Mr. Mill Stephenson has sent a further instalment of his most valuable series of papers on the Monumental Brasses in this county, this time one containing those in the North Riding. The concluding paper, describing the brasses existing in the city of York, will appear in the next volume. Canon Fowler has again proved himself a good friend of the Society by sending articles on matters of a more or less ecclesiastical nature. Writers of articles in former volumes, as Mr. Chadwick, Dr. Leadman, Mr. Clay, Dr. Fairbank, and Canon Wordsworth, continue to show their interest in the Society by contributing to the pages of the Journal. A considerable portion of Paver's Marriage Licenses is given in this volume. The Council desires to take this opportunity of thanking all these and other contributors for their various papers, and has only to add that in this, as in former volumes, the contributors alone are responsible for the opinions and statements made in their several papers. 10, PARK STReet, Leeds, October, 1903. |