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Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The letters which are printed in these volumes have been selected from the correspondence of the family of Hattcn which forms part of the Hatton-Finch papers preserved in the British Museum. These papers, contained in forty-nine volumes, comprise—as their title indicates—the general correspondence and papers of the connected families of Hatton, Viscounts Hatton, and Finch, Earls of Nottingham and Winchilsea. They extend over the years 1514–1779; but the larger portion concerns the Hattons, and of those which relate to the Finches the greater number are political papers of the second Earl of Nottingham. The collection was purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1874, and now bears the numbers, Additional MSS. 29,548–29,596.
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page ii note a Of the letters here printed, those addressed to Lord Hatton are titled with the names of the writers ; those addressed to other persons tear the names of the writers and of the recipients.
page ii note b Sie Colonel Chester's Westminster Abbey Registers, p. 178.
page iv note a History of England, chap. iii.
page viii note a History of England, chap. ii.
page viii note b No. cxxxv. Aug. i, 1711. He has also something to say on the phonetic spellers of that time: “Nay, this humour of shortening our language had once run so far that some of our celebrated authors, among whom we may reckon Sir Roger L'Estrange in particular, began to prune their words of all superfluous letters, as they termed them, in order to adjust the spelling to the pronunciation; which would have confounded all our etymologies, and have quite destroyed our tongue.”