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English Etymology
A select glossary, serving as an introduction to the history of the English language. By F. Kluge and F. Lutz. Demy 8vo, cloth, 5s. nett.
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[FOOTNOTES:]
[1] The later volumes of the Privy Council Register, under the editorship of Professor Masson and Mr. P. Hume Brown, deal with the period immediately before and after the Union of the Crowns, and so do not fall within our subject.
[2] On this subject, cf. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond, pp. 226-244.
[3] After the Union of the Crowns, the sources of information became very much more numerous, and the subject has been treated with much greater fulness. The work of Professor Masson, Mr. Gardiner, and Mr. Firth on the period between 1603 and 1660 has placed the constitutional history of Scotland for that period in a position quite different from that which it occupies in the centuries preceding the Union.
[4] Opera Geographica et historica, edition of 1707, p. 318.