From the Preface. The manuscript (Lansdowne MSS. 231), which is now for the first time printed in its entirety for the members of the Folk-Lore Society, has long been known to lovers of folklore; and more or less copious extracts from it have been published in at least three different works. Attention seems to have been first directed to it by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Henry Ellis, who made extracts from it in his edition of Brand's Popular Antiquities (1813). More copious selections from it will be found in Time's Telescope ...
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From the Preface. The manuscript (Lansdowne MSS. 231), which is now for the first time printed in its entirety for the members of the Folk-Lore Society, has long been known to lovers of folklore; and more or less copious extracts from it have been published in at least three different works. Attention seems to have been first directed to it by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Henry Ellis, who made extracts from it in his edition of Brand's Popular Antiquities (1813). More copious selections from it will be found in Time's Telescope for 1826, where, in the "Advertisement," it is referred to as follows: "To Henry Ellis, Esq., Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, our especial acknowledgments are due for many kind hints and communications, particularly as it regards some MSS. in the Lansdowne Collection that have escaped the researches of our literary ferrets, and the extracts from which cannot fail of proving an agreeable novelty to our readers." These extracts will be found at pp. 38, 40, 71, 74, 91, 98, 117, 123, 132, 158, 227, 231, 233, 251, 293-7, 302. In 1839 Mr. W. J. Thorns made numerous extracts for a volume entitled Anecdotes and Traditions, published by the Camden Society; to these extracts he appended notes which greatly increased their value; the more important of them will be found in the Appendix (I.) to the present volume, the initials "W. J. T." being affixed to them, as well as the page where they will be found in the Anecdotes. In his preface Mr. Thoms says that with one exception the selections differed from those made by Ellis, which last, "combined with those here printed, may be said to comprise everything deserving of publication contained in the volume." Notwithstanding this dictum of one peculiarly able to form a judgment in the matter, the Folk-Lore Society determined, soon after its establishment, to print the whole MS. Mr. Thoms's book has long been unobtainable; the extracts in Time's Telescope were hardly known-I have met with no reference to them; so that all that could be considered available for general use was contained in Ellis's edition of Brand, and this represents but a small portion of the whole work. In the present volume a faithful transcript is offered to the reader. I have carefully collated the proofs with the original; and, although it would be presumption to suppose that no errors of transcription from the somewhat crabbed MS. have arisen, I hope that these are but few and unimportant.
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