"The President and Council of the Camden Society respectfully submit these circumstances to your Grace with a full persuasion that nothing which relates to the welfare of English historical literature can be uninteresting either to your Grace personally, or to the Church over which you preside; and they humbly pray your Grace that such changes may be made in the regulations of the Prerogative Office as may assimilate its practice to that of the Public Record Office, so far as regards the inspection of the books of entry of ancient wills, or that such other remedy may be applied to the inconveniences now stated as to your Grace may seem fit. "(Signed) BRAYBROOKE, President. THOMAS AMYOT, Director. HENRY ELLIS. J. PAYNE COLLIER, Treas. HARRY VERNEY. H. H. MILMAN. JOSEPH HUNTER. WILLIAM J. THOMS, Sec. CHS. PURTON COOPER. THOS. STAPLETON. WM. DURRANT COOPER. PETER LEVESQUE. THOS. J. PETTIGREW. JOHN BRUCE. BERIAH BOTFIELD. BOLTON CORNEY. _25. Parliament Street, Westminster,_ _13 April, 1848._" As the Archbishop stated his inability to afford any relief, THE CAMDEN SOCIETY availed themselves of the appointment of the Commission to inquire into the Law and Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical and other Courts in relation to Matters Testamentary, to address to those Commissioners, in the month of January, 1853, a Memorial, of which the following is a copy: "To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Commissioners appointed by Her Majesty to inquire into the Law and Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical and other Courts in relation to Matters Testamentary. "My Lords and Gentlemen, "We, the undersigned, being the President and Council of the Camden Society, for the Publication of Early Historical and Literary Remains, beg to submit to your consideration a copy of a Memorial presented on the 13th April, 1848, by the President and then Council of this Society, to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, praying that such changes might be made in the regulations of the Prerogative Office as might assimilate its practice to that of the Public Record Office, so far as regards the inspection of the books of entry of ancient Wills, or that such other remedy might be applied to the inconveniences stated in that Memorial as to his Grace might seem fit. "In reply to that Memorial his Grace was pleased to inform the Memorialists that he had no control whatever over the fees taken in the Prerogative Office.