vile Correspondence"
(1858). The Romances and Chronicles must also be mentioned,
and the remarkable edition of the oldest English Dictionary,
"Promptorium Parvulorum," which was fully and learnedly
edited by the late Mr. Albert Way. A second series was
commenced in 1871, which is still continued.

The same year which saw the foundation of the Camden Society
also gave birth to _The English Historical Society_. Sixteen
works of considerable value were issued, but the greatest of
these is the grand "Codex Diplomaticus AEvi Saxonici" of the
late J. Mitchell Kemble (1845-48).

_The Spalding Club_, named after John Spalding, Commissary
Clerk of Aberdeen, and founded at Aberdeen in 1839 for the
printing of the Historical, Ecclesiastical, Genealogical,
Topographical, and Literary Remains of the North-Eastern
Counties of Scotland, was formed on the model of the
exclusive clubs; but being affected by the more democratic
constitution of the later printing societies, its
subscription was fixed at one guinea. Amongst the most
interesting of the Club's publications are the "Sculptured
Stones of Scotland" (1856), "Barbour's Brus" (1856), and
the "Fasti Aberdonensis: Selections from the Records of the
University and King's College of Aberdeen from 1494 to 1854"
(1854).

The year 1840 saw the foundation of three very important
Societies, viz. the Parker, the Percy, and the Shakespeare.

_The Parker Society_ took its name from the famous
Archbishop of Canterbury, Martin Parker, and its objects
were (1) the reprinting, without abridgment, alteration or
omission, of the best works of the Fathers and early Writers
of the Reformed English Church published in the period
between the accession of Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth; (2)
the printing of such works of other writers of the Sixteenth
Century as may appear desirable (including under both
classes some of the early English Translations of the
Foreign Reformers), and (3) the printing of some MSS. of the
same authors hitherto unpublished. The Society was an
enormous success, and at one time the list contained seven
thousand members; but owing to the multitude of copies
printed, and the somewhat dry character of the books
themselves, many of them can now be obtained at a
ridiculously