INTRODUCTION
member of our Society, the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott , and Father P. Ryan, S.J. , have given valuable assistance by proof reading and in other ways. An especial debt of gratitude , moreover , is due to the late Duke of Norfolk , without whose constant and friendly encouragement the volume would hardly have been undertaken. To her Grace the Duchess our obligations are also considerable , for the pains and trouble taken in looking out the pictures , the copies of which are now in the reader's hands . Our thanks are similarly due to our member Sir Henry Jerningham, and to Mr. Francis Wellesley for the like kind services . 31 , Farm Street, W.1 . , January, 1919. 8 , Via S. Nicola da Tolentino, Rome .
J. H. POLLEN, S.J. W. MACMAHON , S.J.
P.S. Since the above was in type the relaxation of war pressure has made access possible to various archives , in which research had been previously impracticable. This has enabled us to add Appendix VI, which comprises various letters from Hatfield House and elsewhere, previously only known in abstracts. Better still, we now have the Earl's will from Norfolk House , pp. 368–379. Not only is it original and unusual in form, but it gives indirectly a striking answer to the charge of disloyalty made against him.