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C. C., Camb., xvi. MS. Cott., Nero, D. 1. MS. Cott., Nero, C. iv. Full of drawings. MS. Roy., 14, C. vii. Lansdowne MS., British Museum. Macklin's 'Monumental Brasses.' _Journal of the Archaeological Association._ MS. Roy., 2, B. vii. MS. Roy., 10, E. iv. Good marginal drawings. The Loutrell Psalter. Invaluable for costume. MS. Bodl. Misc., 264. 1338-1344. Very full of useful drawings. Dr. Furnivall's edition of the Ellesmere MS. of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales.' Boutell's 'Monumental Brasses.' MS. Harl., 1819. Metrical history of the close of Richard II.'s reign. Good drawings for costume. MS. Harl., 1892. MS. Harl., 2278. Lydgate's 'Life of St. Edmund.' MS. Roy., 15, E. vi. Fine miniatures. The Bedford Missal, MS. Add., 18850. MS. Harl., 2982. A Book of Hours. Many good drawings. MS. Harl., 4425. The Romance of the Rose. Fine and useful drawings. MS. Lambeth, 265. MS. Roy., 19, C. viii. MS. Roy., 16, F. ii. Turberville's 'Book of Falconrie' and 'Book of Hunting.' Shaw's 'Dresses and Decorations.' Jusserand's 'English Novel' and 'Wayfaring Life.' Very excellent books, full of reproductions from illuminated books, prints, and pictures. The Shepherd's Calendar, 1579, British Museum. Harding's 'Historical Portraits.' Nichols's 'Progresses of Queen Elizabeth.' Stubbes's 'Anatomie of Abuses,' 1583. Braun's 'Civitates orbis terrarum.' 'Vestusta Monumenta.' Hollar's 'Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus.' Hollar's 'Aula Veneris.' Pepys's Diary. Evelyn's Diary. Tempest's 'Cries of London.' Fifty plates. Atkinson's 'Costumes of Great Britain.' In addition to these, there are, of course, many other books, prints, engravings, sets of pictures, and heaps of caricatures. The excellent labours of the Society of Antiquaries and the Archaeological Association have helped me enormously; these, with wills, wardrobe accounts, 'Satires' by Hall and others, 'Anatomies of Abuses,' broadsides, and other works on the same subject, French, German, and English, have made my task easier than it might have been. It was no use to spin out my list of manuscripts with the numbers--endless numbers--of those which proved dry ground, so I have given those only which have yielded a rich harvest
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