Excerpt from Memorials of Old Shropshire

I should like by way of preface to say a few words as to what the reader may, and may not, expect to find in the following volume. He must not expect everything that falls under the head of Memorials Of Old Shropshire, but if he has the patience to read the volume through, I venture to think he will be in possession of a fairly clear idea of the past history of the county, viewed under several aspects. In the chapters written by myself, and in those contributed by others, I have alike endeavoured to avoid the scrappiness which is too apt to attach to a volume like the present. When one knows a county well, there is always the temptation to trot out some particular hobby-horse, or even a whole team of them, in other words, to give exaggerated prominence to some particular place, or person, or family, which may be of great interest to the writer himself or to a few local antiquaries, but is of very little value to the general reader.

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