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Excerpt from Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, Vol. 1 of 2: As Illustrated by the Records of the Quarter Sessions of the County of Derby, From Queen Elizabeth to Queen VictoriaOW a book comes to be written is usually explained in the preface. The origin of these volumes can be clearly seen in the three following sentences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotte...

Excerpt from Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4The serious, but far less deadly, visitations of 1361 - 2, and 1369, styled in the old charters, the Second and Third Plagues, may also be traced in the Institutions. Much inci dental information as to the different. Outbreaks of the plague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will also be found in this volume, in the account of the registers of the different parish churches of the ...

Excerpt from The English Parish Church: An Account of the Chief Building Types of Their Materials During Nine CenturiesAn endeavour too is made in these pages to set forth, after a succinct fashion, the undoubted but often forgotten fact that our ancestors, whilst regarding the church as primarily devoted to the worship of God and to the continuous round of the expression of their highest Faith, considered that the soul and body were so intima...

Excerpt from The Records of the Borough of Northampton, Vol. 2 of 2: 1550 to 1835Town Council of Northampton on the condition and contents of their muniments with a View to printing and publication. In accordance With this request, a report was presented through the Town Clerk. Eventually, after some delay, the Corporation decided to undertake the publication of two volumes, the last of which has fallen into my hands. It was decided that those...

Excerpt from The Records of the Borough of Northampton, Vol. 2: 1550 to 1835The particular circumstances under which this volume was produced have rendered it more liable than usual to author's slips and printer's errors when under revision. I have noticed about a score, but so far as I am aware, they are all trivial and readily detected, so it is not thought worth while to insert a list of errata.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes h...

Excerpt from The Parish Registers of EnglandMeanwhile, I kept steadily before my mind the hope of producing a book which, whilst based upon the labours of my predecessors, Burn and Waters, should strike out a wider line of its own, and aim at a better arrangement and at a fuller explanation of unusual points. At last, after many interruptions, literary and otherwise, the idea has matured, and these pages are put forth with a fair amount of hop...

Excerpt from The Records of the Borough of Northampton, Vol. 2: 1550 to 1835The particular circumstances under which this volume was produced have rendered it more liable than usual to author's slips and printer's errors when under revision. I have noticed about a score, but so far as I am aware, they are all trivial and readily detected, so it is not thought worth while to insert a list of errata.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes h...

Excerpt from The Sanctuaries: And Sanctuary Seekers of Mediæval EnglandMY interest was first aroused in the question of sanctuary rights in mediaeval England by inquiries that were made of me by the late Mr. Mazzinghi, Librarian of the William Salt Library, Stafford, in 1886 - 87. I had at that time the pleasure of the friendship of that gentleman, as I was a member of the editorial committee of the Salt Archaeological Society. Mr. Mazzinghi p...

Excerpt from Calendar of the Records of the Country of DerbyN the summer of 1886, I was requested by Sir Henry Wilmot, Bart, as Chairman of Quarter Sessions, to edit the most valuable parts of the records of the county of Derby. To this labour of love the best part of the leisure of four years was gladly given, With tr 'eshi, that in the summer Of 1890 Messrs. Bemrose and St Limited, published two volumes entitled Three Centuries of Derbyshire...

Excerpt from English Church FurnitureAt first it was proposed to confine these accounts and lists to pre-reformation days, but it was eventually decided to give a certain amount of general information down to the end of the seventeenth century.The original intention was to include descriptions of such matters as painted glass, wall paintings, floor tiles, and ironwork, but the plan became perforce more restricted for lack of space. It is possi...

Excerpt from Calendar of the Records of the Country of DerbyN the summer of 1886, I was requested by Sir Henry Wilmot, Bart, as Chairman of Quarter Sessions, to edit the most valuable parts of the records of the county of Derby. To this labour of love the best part of the leisure of four years was gladly given, With tr 'eshi, that in the summer Of 1890 Messrs. Bemrose and St Limited, published two volumes entitled Three Centuries of Derbyshire...

Excerpt from Pulpits, Lecterns, and Organs in English Churches: With 155 IllustrationsAlthough the name of the writer of the letterpress of this book is the only one that appears on the title-page and cover, he is by no means sure that the name of Mr Francis Bond, the General Editor of the series, ought not to have been bracketed with it, as to him these pages are indebted for all the labour and scholarly insight involved in the selection and ...

Excerpt from Journal of the Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society, Vol. 10: February, 1888About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 presen...

Excerpt from Journal of the Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society, Vol. 10: February, 1888About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 presen...

Excerpt from How to Write the History of a ParishUndertaking parochial history in any part of the kingdom, Whether manorial, ecclesiastical, or both. In the first part of these pages I am indebted to Thomas's Handbook to the Public Records, and.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Bo...

Excerpt from The Reliquary, Quarterly Archæological Journal and Review, Vol. 1: A Depository for Precious Relics Legendary, Biographical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Habits, Customs, and Pursuits, of Our ForefathersChurch, Cumberland Vicar Of Asp atria The Norman Doorways of Yorkshire J Allen, F S' A Recent Roman Discoveries in Britain W. Thompson Watkin..About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...

Excerpt from Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 2I am not aware that this singularity of the Basque grave~ stones has ever yet been mentioned. The archaeology of that district may be said to be totally unwritten, and, when it is accomplished, it is not improbable that a ray of additional light will be thrown on the origin of that mysterious nationality, as well as on the real source from which the various continental tribes sprang, that...

Excerpt from Churchwardens' Accounts: From the Fourteenth Century to the Close of the Seventeenth CenturyT is more than half a century since I began to make I extracts from a few early parish records or wardens'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

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