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NOTES AND QUERIES
FOR
Worcestershire.

By JOHN NOAKE,

AUTHOR OF "THE RAMBLER," &c.

LONDON:
LONGMAN AND CO.

AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
MDCCCLVI.

PRICE FIVE SHILLINGS.

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DEDICATED BY PERMISSION

TO

JOHN GOODWIN, ESQ.,

TWICE-ELECTED MAYOR OF WORCESTER;

AND UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF

THE VERY REV. DR. PEEL, DEAN OF WORCESTER,

THE RIGHT HON. EARL BEAUCHAMP,

J. H. H. FOLEY, ESQ., M.P.,

AND

R. PADMORE, ESQ.

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In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire,
With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales
Of ages long ago betid.

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Preface.

Another trifling instalment towards the history ofWorcestershire is now respectfully presented to itsinhabitants, and the Author ventures to express a hopethat it may meet with the general favour of the readingpublic, equal to that which his previous works haveelicited.

The materials of historical works usually consist of tablesof pedigrees, charters, battles, sieges, enumerations ofmanors, with their successive owners, statistical details, andother tedious though useful information. These, however,are but the dry bones—the skeleton of history. Thespirit of the past can only be evoked by a deep andextensive research among documentary and traditionalevidences—by careful comparison and analysis—by judiciousdeduction and inference. To perform this effectually,even for the limited area of a county, the coöperationof many minds is almost indispensable. Let us take Worcestershireas an instance. Habingdon, Nash, Thomas,Green, and others, have accumulated large masses of the[Pg vi]matter which conventionally passes for history, and I wouldnot for one moment desire to detract from the merit oftheir labours: yet the history of Worcestershire remains tobe written. What do we yet know of the manners andcustoms, the hopes and aspirations, the social every-daylife, the habits and thoughts, of our ancestors? Yet surelythis is not the least considerable feature of the times ofwhich we would fain glean tidings. Who would not vastlyprefer an hour or two's conversation with one who was inthe flesh some centuries ago—could that be possible—tostudying the pages of the most in

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