Looking back, however, upon these earlier names, how many varied and conflicting qualities of the human heart do they all reflect, some honourable, some harmlessly innocent, the greater part, I fear, discreditable. Of all how much might be said, but I refrain, lest I be liable to a charge of acting contrary to the spirit of the kindly old adage, ‘de mortuis nil nisi bonum’—‘speak no evil of the dead.’ Thus telltale, however, are our surnames, and if it be no pleasant task to expose the weaknesses and the frailties of them whose bones have so long ere this crumbled into decay, still we may comfort ourselves with the remembrance that their names, with many others I could have adduced had space permitted, offer no kind of reflection upon their present possessors. It is not unseldom we see the bearer of a worthy name dragging the same through the dust and mire of an ignoble life. It is amongst these names of somewhat unsavoury origin we oftentimes meet with the best, and the truest, and the noblest of our fellows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _The Alphabetical Letters appended to the Names furnished in the Index refer to the Documents in the List here cited._ Hundred Rolls. _A._ Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem. _B._ Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium in Turri Londinensi. _C._ Calendarium Rotulorum Chartarum. _D._ Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londonensi. _E._ Valor Ecclesiasticus. _F._ Calendarium Rotulorum Originalium. _G._ Rolls of Parliament. _H._ Placitorum in Dom. Cap. Westminster. _J._ Testa de Neville, sive Liber Feodorum. _K._ Calendarium Genealogicum. _L._ Writs of Parliament. _M._ Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis. _N._ Issues of the Exchequer. _O._ Issue Roll. _P._ History and Antiquities of York (Pub. 1785). _Q._ Placita de Quo Warranto. _R._ Guild of St. George, Norwich. _S._ Excerpta e Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi. _T._ V. Camden Society Publications. _V._ 1. Bury St. Edmunds Wills. _V._ 2. Dingley’s History from Marble. _V._ 3. Trevelyan Papers. _V._ 4. Camden Miscellany. _V._ 5. Smith’s Obituary. _V._ 6. Diary of John Rous. _V._ 7. Liber Famelicus—Sir James Whitelock. _V._ 8. Chronicon Petroburgense. _V._ 9. Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler. _V._ 10. Autobiography of Sir John Bramston. _V._ 11. Doomsday Book of St. Paul’s. _V._ 12. Ricart’s Kalendar. _V._ 13. Proceedings in Kent. _V._ 14. Rutland Papers. W. Surtees’ Society Publications. _W._ 1. Coldingham Priory. _W._ 2. Testamenta Ebor. _W._ 3. Durham Household Book. _W._ 4. Kirkby Inquest. _W._ 5. Knight’s Fees. _W._ 6. Nom. Villarum. _W._ 7. Illustrative Documents. _W._ 8. Priory of Finchdale. _W._ 9. Fabric Rolls of York Minister, _and_ Wills and Inventories.