Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Historical Socity, Vol. 5<br><br>The present volume will, it is hoped, be found in its contents not unworthy of its predecessors. In their efforts to secure suitable papers the Council have been unremitting and the interesting discussions which have occurred at the monthly meetings would warrant the belief that the selec tions made were generally approved. The formation of a Genealogical Section will relieve the transactions from memoirs relating to family history, and likewise extend the breadth of the Society's labours. It is at the same time the Society's aim, apart from its recorded labours, to promote a general interest in historical inquiries. The Council have the gratification to report that the membership continues steadily to increase; in December, 1875, the Fellows on the.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.