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Jottings of Kent, Being a Series of Historical, Ecclesiastical, Topographical, and Statistical Sketches
Jottings of Kent Being a Series of Historical Ecclesiastical Topographical and Statistical Sketches Author:William Miller General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: London Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of ... more »this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE. 3jT was not contemplated, whilst contributing these Sketches to a Kentish Journal, that a desire would be manifested for their re-production in a collected form, neither that the compiler's incognito should be disclosed; still it is a gratifying fact to him, that however simple their garb, -- divested as they are of pretentious phraseology, -- their purpose has been served. Without desire to claim merit, and in perfect disregard of all pecuniary interest, he has selected his materials from the highest authorities, re-written them in a familiar style, and brought them down to the present time as a simple epitome of Historical and Topographical Sketches, as their title indicates, -- Jottings Of Kent ; and however imperfectly rendered, neither praise or censure belongs to him for re-producing much that has emanated from other minds. It is the compiler's pleasing duty to tender to the Most Reverend Prelate, whose name graces the Patron's page, his warmest thanks for the honour he has conferred on the "Work, as well as upon him, in accepting the Dedication; -- a high compliment also to the people of Kent, his Grace being a native of that County, and the highest Ecclesiastical Personage in England. Neither can he omit expressing his kind acknowledgments to Mr. Thos. Hall, the respected Proprietor of the " Grmesmd Free Press," for the pains-taking manner in which they were presented, -- hi the first instance, -- through the columns of that excellent Journal, and subsequently, in the present neat ...« less