Transcript:Cokayne, George Edward. Complete Peerage/03/Introduction

The Complete Peerage

[2nd edition, volume 3, page v]

Introduction to volume III

In sending this volume to press the Editor desires again to make his acknowledgments for help received to the genealogists whose names are mentioned in the previous volumes. The additions to the original edition which deal with the politics of individual peers, are, as stated in vol. i, p. ix, inserted on the authority of the Rev. A. B. Beaven, who has in Appendix I to that volume explained fully the principles by which he has been guided in classifying them by party designations.