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Collections for a History of Staffordshire, 1900 Staffordshire SampleCounty Studies COLLECTIONS FOR A HISTORY Staffordshire OE STAFFORDSHIRE EDITED BY SampleCounty VOLUME I I I . N e w S e rStudies i e s . “ And in this undertaking, the Reader may see what Furniture (though it lie dispcrst) our Puhlick Records will afford for History: and how plentifully our own may be supplied and improved, if pains were taken therein : for what is hitherto made publick, hath been collected, chiefly out of old Annals, and they filled with few things l>ut such as were very obvious, nay the Annalists themselves (for the most pait residing in Monasteries) too oftened byass"d with Interest, and Affection, to Times and Persons: But on the contrary, in our publiek Records lye matter of Fact, in full Truth, and therewith the Chronological part, carried on, even to days of the Month. So that an industrious Searcher may thence collect considerable mattr r for new History, rectitie many mistakes in our old and in both gratifle the world with unshadowed verity.”—(A shm ole s History of the Garter.) LONDON: HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, 1900. 1 9 0 0 . COUNCIL. StaffordshireNominated by the Trustees of the William Salt Library. T h e R ig h t H o n . L o r d WROTTESLEY. C a p t a i n CONGREVE. T h e Y e n . A r c h d e a c o n LANE. S i r REGINALD HARDY, B a r t . M r . W . S. BROUGH. Elected by the Members of the Society. M a j o r -G e n e r a l T n E II o n . GEORGE WROTTESLEY. T h e R e v . F. P. PARKER. S i r THOMAS SALT, B a r t . T h e R e v . W. BERESFORD. T h e R e v . E. R. O.Sample BRIDGEMAN.County EDITORIAL COMMITTEE. M a j o r -G e n e r a l T h e H o n . GEORGE WROTTESLEY, 75. Cadogan Gardens. T h e R e v . F. P. PARKER, The Rectory, Colton, Rugcley. T h e R e v . W. BERESFORD, St. Luke’s Yicarage, Leek.Studies TREASURER. M r . PERCEYAL HANBURY IIARSTON. AUDITOR. M r . WILLIAM MORGAN. HONORARY SECRETARY. M a j o r -G e n e r a l T h e H o n . GEORGE WROTTESLEY. HONORARY SOLICITOR. M r . W. H. DUIGNAN. ASSISTANT SECRETARY. Mr. JOHN W . BRADLEY, The William Salt Library, Stafford. BANKERS. U L O Y D ’S BANK (L i m i t e d ) , S t a f f o r d . a 2 GENERAL MEETING, NOVEMBER 7 t h , 1899. T h e StaffordshireTwenty-first Annual Meeting of the Society took place at the William Salt Library, Stafford, on the 7th November, 1899. Present: The Eight Hon. the Lord Wrottesley in the Chair, the Eev. AY. Beresford, the Eev. Ernest Bridgeman, the Eev. E. Collett, the Eev. F. Parker, the Eev. E. Salt, and Messrs. AA’. S. Brough, AV. E. Carter, W. H. Duignan, N. Joyce, J. AA7 Philips, and Major-General the Hon. George AA’rotteslcy, the Honorary Secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, the Chairman called uponSample the HonoraryCounty Secretary to read the Eeport of the Editorial Committee, which was read as follows:— REPORT OF THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE. The Committee have to report that in pursuance of the resolution passed at the last General Meeting, a circular was drawn up and sent to the principal residents of the County, includingStudies all Magistrates, Deputy Lieutenants, and Incumbents of Parishes, to the following effect “ S pecial A ppe a l . “ A t a Meeting of the AVilliam Salt Archaeological Society held at Stafford on the 1st November, 1898, a resolution was unanimously passed that tlie present Members of the Society be asked to increase their Annual Subscription by half-a-gninea for the next two years, or until such time as the number of Subscribers reaches again a total of 200. The Society started eighteen years ago with more than 200 Members, but death vacancies and withdrawals have reduced the number at the present time to 140, whilst an estimate laid before the Meeting by the Honorary Secretary shows that a volume of average size, say of 300 to 3o0 pages, cannot be issued, with other incidental expenses, for a less sum than £200. “ Nearly all the important public Records relating to Staffordshire down to the reign of Henry VI. have been already printed by the efforts of the Society, and it is considered essential to continue the series to the close of the reign of Henry VII., or at least so long as the Honorary Secretary, General Wrottesley, is able to carry on his invaluable researches at the Record Office, and in connection with this subject, the Council thinks it necessary to explain that it is only through the voluntary efforts of General Wrottesley that they have been enabled to produce the number of volumes which have been issued up to this time with so small a Subscription, and that if it had been necessary to provide funds for the payment of the AbstractsStaffordshire from the Records now supplied gratuitously by the Honorary Secretary, the Society must have been wound up long ago. “ The Council of the Society therefore makes this appeal in the hope that the gentlemen of the County, recognising how much has been already done for Staffordshire history, will assist them to continue the work and become Subscribers to a new Series of Staffordshire Collections, of which three volumes are already in hand. The Subscription to the new Series will be one guinea annually. “Sample On behalf ofCounty the Council, “ J. AV. BRADLEY, “ Assistant Secretary. “ The William Salt Library, “ Stafford, “ 10th Nov., 1898.” Studies The response to this circular has not been encouraging so far as new Subscribers are concerned, eight only- having joined the Society, but upwards of 80 Members have consented to increase tlieir sub­ scriptions for two years. The total uuraber of Subscribers at the present date is 150, but this number will be subject to a gradual diminution by deaths and withdrawals. It becomes therefore a question for consideration whether it would be justifiable to carry on the Society after the volumes now in preparation have been issued to the Subscribers. These consist of five volumes, as under :_ 1. The History of the Gresley Family. 2. The History of Weston-under-Lyzard. 3. A Volume of Records, row in print. 4 A Volume of Records, partly collected. 5. Chetwynd’s History of the Pirehill Hundred, with notes by the Rev. E. Parker. Tho first three volumes when issued will complete the programme proposed for the years 1898 and 1899.* As regards the progress made in them, the Gresley History will he in the hands of Subscribers before the date of the present Meeting—the History of Weston is complete and printed all except the Index, and the latter is now in the hands of the printer. The volume of Records is complete with the exception of the last sheet, which is now in the hands of the printer, and the Index. Both these volumes will be issnedStaffordshire early in 1900. A difficulty, however, presents itself in the fact that the Honorary Secretary reports he is unable to collect material enough for more than 100 pages of print in the course of a year. And, therefore, even if the bulk of the volume is reduced to ‘250 pages, in order to meet the limited circumstances of the Society, unless new contribu­ tions are forthcoming, it will be necessary to fill 150 pages of print with other abstracts from the Records. These must be paid for, and it is doubtful whether with the present number of Subscribers there will be funds enough for this purpose. To meet this difficulty the Committee proposeSample to prepareCounty for press the Abstracts of Ancient Deeds in the William Salt Library, which have been made by the Assistant Secretary, and to add to them the abstracts of other deeds which were made by Mr. Hamper for the late Mr. William Salt. This will tend to fill up an important void in the Collections, for up to the present time the ancient deeds of the County have not received the attention which they deserve. It is proposedStudies to print these abstracts in English. The accounts of the sale of the large edition of Crecy and Calais show that a sum of £36 4s. was received up to the end of the year 1898, and Messrs. Harrison report that about £30 more has been received during the current year. These are the net amounts after deducting the booksellers’ commission. The Chairman proposed the adoption of the Report, which was carried. The Chairman then called on the Assistant Secretary to read his report on the financial condition of the Society, and it was read as follows:— * Sinoe this Report was read it has been found impractieable to carry out this programme owing to wnut of funds, and it is proposed to muke Volume 3 tbo issue for 1900. REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, DATED 7th NOVEMBER, 1899. The working of the Society during the past year presents some gratifying features, the first of which is that no death or withdrawal of any member has been reported. It may be remembered that four of the vacancies reported last year were filled by the sons and a daughter of the deceased members; and a Staffordshirehope was expressed in the Meeting that Mr.
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