The present volume appeared some years ago in the Genealogical Magazine over the signatures A. C. F. D. And A. M. R., the latter initials being those of Mr. A. M. Rickards. The revision and extension of those articles into the book form in which they now appear has been the joint work of Mr. Carlyon-britton and myself, so that the actual authorship is rather a composite matter, although Mr. Rickards has, of course, no responsibility for the.