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2em 2em as I do that one of the most useful objects of local Archæological Societies is to afford a fitting and convenient repository for documents relating to the history of the county or of its inhabitants, and that the wills of bygone inhabitants, owners of lands and tenements, and even of those who held no lands and tenements, afford very valuable materials for local history and genealogy, and most interesting illustrations of the habits, manners, and customs of former times, I send you, in addition to the copies of wills communicated by Miss Bocket, a collection of ancient wills and documents relating to Southwark, which, if the council shall agree with me in the views above expressed, may be an acceptable and useful addition to the transactions of the Society.

A.D. 1082, 16 ''Will. I.''—, citizen of