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 EDITORIAL NOTE The editor has, with much regret, to announce that since the pubHcation of the first volume of the Victoria County History of Norfolk, Mr, Walter Rye, owing to failing eyesight and other causes, has been obliged to relinquish the editorship of Volumes III, IV, V, and VI of the Victoria County History of Norfolk. Mr. Rye has, however, placed at the disposal of the editor the material he had collected for his work. In consequence of certain alterations necessitated in the scheme for the article on the Political History of the county prepared by Mr, Rye, which for the same reasons had to be made by other hands, Mr. Rye thought it would be better that the article should not be wholly attributed to him. It was with much regret also the editor learnt from Canon Jessopp that in consequence of ill-health he had been compelled to relinquish the greater part of the article on the Ecclesiastical History of the county which he had undertaken. The editor wishes to express his gratitude to the Rev. William Hudson, M.A., F.S.A., for much advice and assistance, and particularly for reading the proofs of several of the articles ; and also to Mr. J. Horace Round, M.A., LL.D., for revising the proofs of the article on the Intro- duction to Domesday. He is likewise indebted to Mr. G. E. Fox, Hon. M.A., F.S.A., for the use of his drawings of ancient paintings for reproduction ; to Mr. W. T. Bensly, LL.D., F.S.A., and Mr. L. Boling- broke, for assistance and advice ; Mr. E. M. Beloe, jun.. Rev. Francis Lane, the British Archaeological Association and others for illustrations. XV