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Excerpt from Memoir of the Late John Gough Nichols, F. S. A: Hon. Fellow of the Societies of Antiquaries of Scotland and Newcastle-on-Tyne, Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society In the same year he suggested, and in conjunction with his friends, Sir Frederic Madden, the Rev. J. Hunter, Mr. J. Payne Collier, Mr. John Bruce, Mr. W. J. Thorns, and other gentlemen whose names he has recorded in the passage below quoted, esta blished the Camden Society, the objects of which were announced to be to perpetuate and render accessible whatever is valuable, but at present little known, amongst the materials for the Civil, Eccl...