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Excerpt from A History of Enfield in the County of Middlesex, Including Its Royal and Ancient Manors, the Chase, and the Duchy of Lancaster, With Notices of Its Worthies, and Its Natural History, Etc: Also an Account of the Church and Charities, and a History of the New River

They have attempted to meet this expectation, so far as the more important duties of one writer, and the literary inexperience of the other,* would permit, and they offer the following pages as a history OF enfield, endeavoured - to use the expression of 'old Fuller according to their ability; Any such work must be necessarily imperfect, and when the life-long antiquarian researches of Mr. G'ough, and of Mr. Lysons, have been at fault, many errors no doubt still remain.

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Excerpt from A History of Enfield in the County of Middlesex, Including Its Royal and Ancient Manors, the Chase, and the Duchy of Lancaster, With Notices of Its Worthies, and Its Natural History, Etc: Also an Account of the Church and Charities, and a History of the New River

They have attempted to meet this expectation, so far as the more important duties of one writer, and the literary inexperience of the other,* would permit, and they offer the following pages as a history OF enfield, endeavoured - to use the expression of 'old Fuller according to their ability; Any such work must be necessarily imperfect, and when the life-long antiquarian researches of Mr. G'ough, and of Mr. Lysons, have been at fault, many errors no doubt still remain.

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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.

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Excerpt from A History of Enfield in the County of Middlesex, Including Its Royal and Ancient Manors, the Chase, and the Duchy of Lancaster, With Notices of Its Worthies, and Its Natural History, Etc: Also an Account of the Church and Charities, and a History of the New River

Much information has been gleaned from both these writers, and from the later history of Dr. Robinson (whose references in particular have been of great value). Where, however, their statements are at variance with other evidence, and the Editors have attempted to correct inaccuracies, or to remove obscurities; or where, what appeared redundant has been replaced by matter which they thought would be more generally interesting, they have endeavoured to steer between the two extremes, so aptly described by Hen. VIII. In proroguing Parliament on Christmas Eve, I 545. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. (note) Whatever may be the defects of their unpretending production, it will be a gratification to them and to the Subscribers, to know that its original object has succeeded far beyond their expectations, and that a sum of nearly one hundred pounds will be realized, which it is intended to invest for the widow of Mr. Tuh', on whose behalf it was undertaken.

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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.

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