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Excerpt from The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Vol. 1: Successively Bishop of Meath and of Ossory During 1750, 1751, and Later Years The materials for the following pages are taken from four volumes in the series of Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum numbered respectively 15,800, 22,999, 23,000, and 23,001. The three last volumes formed a part of the valuable manuscript library of Mr. Dawson Turner, dispersed by auction after his death in 1859. The original letters of Dr. Pococke, describing the particular travels now printed for the first time, are not known to exist; the above manuscript volumes contain transcripts of the originals only, evidently made with a view to publication, as they bear marks of careful revision by the traveller's own hand. Many other volumes of like transcripts, made with the same unfulfilled intention, with some original letters, were also transferred to the British Museum from the Turner collection, but these relate almost entirely to his travels over the continent of Europe and in the East. Apart from his journeyings, the life of Pococke presents little to interest the reader, and may be told in very few words. Ho was born at Southampton in 1704, a son of Richard Pococke, described as sequestrator of All Saints church, and headmaster of the Free School in Southampton. After receiving some education in his native town he proceeded to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where it is recorded that he took a degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1731; two years later, when precentor of Lismore, the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him. 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.