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Excerpt from Notes and Essays, Archaeological, Historical, and Topographical, Relating to the Counties of Hants and Wilts In the following Essays, the Author has attempted to illustrate Archaeological, and other subjects, by local examples, in the hope of conveying information, and affording rational amusement to the inhabitants of the counties of Hants and Wilts. In order to render his matter intelligible to all, ha has taken the liberty, in bis use of extracts from ancient records, &c. of presenting them in modem English, as far as regards the spelling: in this respect deviating from the custom of former writers. He is prepared to be told, that the antique and obsolete, is preferred to the modem spelling; but to this he would reply, that he is more solicitous to lay before his readers the soul or substance of the records, than the bodily frame or literal spelling of them: there being, at the time of the inditing of them, no settled rule for spelling words, and, in a short document, the same word may be seen several times, in every instance formed of somewhat different letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.