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Excerpt from Wermigey; Or the Weir Amid the Water: A Norfolk Legend of the Beginning of the Wars of the Roses The occasion of this look was as follows: On the "29th of May, 1803," a brother clergyman kindly inscribed the present writer's name in a newly printed volume of the "Historic Records" of his own parish; and further, acquainted him with a similar work, by another clergyman, on another parish. By each of these works, he was both surprised and pleased; and soon began to regret that he had no hope of obtaining materials requisite to illustrate his own too poorly conditioned churches and "deserted villages" of Wormegay and Tottenhill. One day, however, while enjoying a ramble, over hill and dale, by wood and water, about the moor land between Wormegay, Shouldham, and Pentney, in company with a very young relation, he began to indite a few of the first stanzas of the ensuing Legendary Lament, which afterwards so unexpectedly progressed, that, on the following "26th April, 1864," it was concluded; and, at the instance of another brother clergyman, it was committed to the press in June. It does not answer to the models set; it is of a semi-poetic character, and owes something to imagination. There are some inadvertent errors which need to be corrected; some rhymes and metres which transgress exactitude; some omitted stanzas which ought to be inserted; and fact matter which should be adduced; it is also defective in a certain arrangement which might be improved. 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.