History Gazetteer And Directory Of Leicestershire And The Small County Of Rutland Together With The Adjacent Towns Of Grantham Stamford PDF Download

Excerpt from History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Leicestershire, and the Small County of Rutland: Together With the Adjacent Towns of Grantham Stamford The Author, in presenting to an indulgent Public this first essay towards a popular History, Topography, and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland, has to tender his grateful acknowledgments to many literary and official Gentlemen of both counties, as well as to most of the resident Clergy, for the valuable and interesting communications with which they have furnished him, in answer to his multifarious inquiries; and also to a very numerous list of Subscribers, who have honoured him with their patronage, to such a liberal extent, that their orders are nearly equal to the number of the large edition now printed. The prompt and extensive patronage which the Author has received in these and many other counties, shews clearly that Works of this description are highly interesting and useful, not only to the Merchant, Manufacturer, Farmer, and Tradesman, but also to the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Professional Men. When carefully and faithfully compiled, they are invaluable as books of local reference. Authenticity being the grand requisite of topography, all possible care has been taken to avoid errors in the following pages; every Parish, and almost every House in both Counties, has been visited, and the information either collected or verified on the spot; it is therefore hoped that the volume will be found as free from inaccuracies as is compatible with the vast body of information, and the great variety of subjects compressed within its closely printed pages. Among many other works which have been consulted in its compilation are The Description of Leicestershire, in folio, published by Wm. Burton, Esq., of Lindley, in 1622;The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, in four folio volumes, by John Nichols, F.S.A.; Select Views of Leicestershire, accompanied with descriptive and historical relations, in two quarto volumes, published by John Throsby, in 1780 and 1790; and A Topographical History of the County of Leicester, in one octavo volume, published in 1831, by the Rev. J.Curtis, then head master of the Free Grammar School at Ashbyde-la-Zouch. The History of the East Hundred, by Thos. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.