Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of Brentford, Ealing, and Chiswick: Interspersed With Biographical Notices of Illustrious and Eminent Persons, Who Have Been Born, or Have Resided There During the Three Preceding CenturiesIn finally taking leave of my Antiquarian studies, which have occupied my attention for forty years, I may be per mitted to assert, that I have, at all times, used my best endeavours to select the truth, without undue prejudice or partiality, nor have spared either personal labour, or deligent investigation, thus I may truely say with Dr. Fuller that I have gone, and rid, and wrote, and sought, with mine own eyes, to make what discoveries I could, and, perhaps, I may be permitted to indulge the imagination, that the antiquary yet unborn will think with complacency and satisfaction on the days and years consumed by me in preparing the several Histories of Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington, Hammersmith Brentford, Ealing, and Chiswick.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 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.