A gap in the Registers, by the loss of a volume, unfortunately occurring between the years 1524 and 1551, may account for the absence of the names of some who might be entitled to a place upon the Catalogue.
The Biographical Notices which accompany the names, and which have been added chiefly for the sake of ready reference, contain only the salient facts in each instance. Fuller information must be looked for elsewhere, if required[1]. Care has, however, been taken to give such special information in each case as the Registers afford, especially as to parentage; and, in the case of such members as have been Authors, a sufficient reference has been made to the titles and nature of their works as to show the extent of the contributions of the Inn as a body to the general literary wealth of the country.
The Notices are arranged alphabetically, but an
- ↑ Particularly in the Dictionary of National Biography, from which the Notices have been largely compiled, and with which the articles (many of them written before the appearance of that comprehensive publication) have been in all cases compared. In the Lives of the Judges on the List the work of Mr. Foss has been largely consulted.
