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Excerpt from The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Seventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Second, A. D. 1160-1161
N presenting the first Annual Report of the Society, the Council cannot but congratulate the Members most heartily upon the success which has attended the scheme. The names of more than 200 Subscribers were received within a very short period of the establishment of the Society, and, with this support continued, there can be no doubt as to the ultimate completion of the primary object - to place in the hands of the historical student a good and reliable working edition of the Pipe Rolls of the reign of King Henry the Second.
A General Meeting Should, in strict accordance with the Society's Rules, have been held last year, but the Council deemed it inexpedient to hold one until the difficulties attending the production of the earliest volumes had been overcome, and a clear View could be obtained of future operations. Fortunately the starting delay was much reduced by the opportune discovery, in an antiquary's library, of excellent transcripts Of the Rolls of the 5th, 6th, 7th, and part of the 8th years of Henry the Second's reign. These transcripts were promptly secured at a very reasonable cost, and thus much loss of time in making a beginning was saved. The difficulty with respect to the record fount was also met by the enterprise of the Society's printers, Messrs. Wyman Sons, who, by the courtesy of Messrs. Spottiswoode dz co., were able to obtain an entirely new fount, precisely Similar to the one used in the publications of the late Record Commission, whose plan, as stated in the Prospectus, the Society intends to follow as closely as possible.
Of course, with the opening volume the difficulties attending the printing of the abbreviated ms. Were very great, but In the second volume these were much lessened, and In the future no difficulty 1s apprehended on this score; the labours of the editors and the cost of printing will thus be considerably diminished.
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