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PREFACE.
of so many names has rendered it impossible within reasonable limits. The Headings of the several Chapters in the Table of Contents will, it is hoped, be found generally sufficient.
To those who have in any way assisted me I have the pleasant duty of thus publicly though generally expressing my best thanks.
The compilation of the following pages has been to me a source of increasing interest and pleasure. both in itself and in the historical and other researches into which it has led me: I can only hope that at least some small measure of the same kind of interest may be felt by some of its readers.
Cawthorne Vicarage: Oct., 1882.
