Excerpt from Ralph Thoresby, the Topographer, Vol. 2: His Town and Times

Having now got something beforehand with my other work, I resolved to take the time while those are fair writing out to go through all my indexes, and collect whatever I find relating to Leeds, and when I have so done, I will digest them into a methodical strict of time, and transmit them to you that you may thereby compare them with what you have digested, and if you think fit to print it I shall give my consent. Let me have only an extract of the heads of those materials you have, and the dates, as also what method you take in compiling, digesting, and then I can better note in the indexes I go through in the searching through all my books, what may be proper to search for. I assure you I will not near give over till I have ransacked all my books, which I am sure will take me up a month at least of all the spare time I can have.

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