Were = war, p. 20.
Whither = whether, p. 2.
The author in this place uses the letter _w_ instead of _qu_,
although at p. 18 he is so strenuous against its use.
Wrang = wrong, pp. 2, 9, 11.

Ye = yea, p. 14.
Yeld = yield, p. 21.




Early English Text Society.

_Report of the Committee, January, 1865._


The close of the first year of the Society’s operations affords the
Committee the welcome opportunity of congratulating the members on the
Society’s success. Instead of two Texts, which the first Circular to the
Society suggested might perhaps be issued, the Committee have been
enabled to publish four, and these four such as will bear comparison, as
to rareness and intrinsic value, with the publications of any of the
longest established societies of the kingdom. The _Arthur_ was edited
for the first time from a unique MS., wholly unknown to even the latest
writers on the subject, and exhibits our national hero’s life in a
simpler form than even Geoffrey of Monmouth, or Layamon. The _Early
English Alliterative Poems_, though noticed long ago by Dr. Guest and
Sir F. Madden, for their great philological and poetical value, had been
inaccessible to all but students of the difficult and faded MS. in the