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PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY;

J. CUTHELL: LONGMAN, REES, ORME, AND CO; E. JEFFERY AND SON;
J. BOOKER, HARDING AND LEPARD: SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER;
HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO, 6 B. WHITTAKER, H. BUTTERWORTH; HURST,
ROBINSON, AND CO, W. REYNOLDS; SIMPAIN AND MARSHALL; AND
J. COLLINGWOOD.

1826.

T. C. HANSARD, Paternoster-row Press.

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THE advantage of a general Index to a work of such extent, and containing so much various and useful information, as Dodsley's Annual Register, including a period of upward of sixty of the most eventful years on record, cannot be questioned; but a few words tending to facilitate its use may not be superfluous.

Under the Names of the different countries references to matters of general import and their ancient history will be found first, those to their modern history following last in chronological order. Here, however, it is to be noticed, that much belonging to the recent history of Great Britain will be found under Commons, Lords, and Parliament, as well as under the particular heads to which it may belong. In the early part of the work the proceedings of the two houses were seldom given separately, and in consequence are arranged under the head Parliament. Subsequently they were kept for the most part distinct from each other, and the references are then placed under the House to which they relate.

Another thing to be observed is, that during the length of time necessarily employed in indexing so many volumes, it unavoidably happened, that different features of similar events would appear the most prominent at different times. Hence the whole of the information on any given subject may not always be found referred to under the same head. This it has been endeavoured as far as possible to correct; but, it is feared, not with all the success that could be wished.

The loose manner in which names and titles are usually given, in recording parliamentary debates, military transactions, and other matters, occasioned very considerable trouble, and presented difficulties, which it has not been possible always to surmount. References to peers will generally be found under their latest title, but sometimes under the title, or name, by which they have been most known The numbers used in distinguishing them as 1st, 2nd, &c., are those of Debrett's Peerage; a few excepted, which will readily occur.

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