I. Blackburne, Esq. M.P. by giving
the Society the use of the MS. of the Three Romances, edited by Mr.
Robson.
Also by the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, in placing in Mr. Way's hands,
upon the application of the Director, his valuable early printed
editions of the "Promptorium," which Mr. Way wished to use for his
edition of that work; and by the Master and Fellows of Saint Peter's
College, Cambridge, for the readiness with which, upon a similar
application, they lent the Council, for the use of Mr. Way, a valuable
MS., entitled Campus Florum.
The same exertions, in behalf of the Society, which former Councils have
acknowledged, have been continued to be made by the Local Secretaries,
and other friends of the Society resident in the country; and the
Council trust that such exertions will not be relaxed. To diffuse a
knowledge of the existence and objects of the Society tends, not merely
to promote its welfare, but also to carry out the purpose for which it
was established, by directing the attention of the possessors of MSS. to
those collections in which there yet exist, unpublished, inestimable
papers which this Society would be ready and willing to make available.
Messrs. Nichols have continued to the Council the same attentions, and
have rendered them the same valuable and gratuitous assistance in the
general management of the affairs of the Society, which they have given
from its Institution.
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