Arthur L. Humphreys
Published: 2015-07-20
Total Pages: 328
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Excerpt from The Materials for the History of the Town of Wellington, Co; Somerset: Collected Arranged The collection and arrangement of the materials for this volume have occupied, for several years past, the leisure moments of an otherwise busy life. Early in 1888 I said in a letter to a local paper that I had made some progress with the work. Since that announcement was made eighteen months ago, I have, to the exclusion of other plans, made special efforts towards the completion of this book. No history of Wellington has hitherto appeared, and I am hoping that this fact will be taken into consideration in judging of the pages which follow, where a mass of crude material is represented, of which the substance has been produced. It is difficult to understand why Wellington has been so neglected by topographers, while places of much less historical importance have had justice done to them. There has been, I believe, a general idea current that the story of Wellington is barren of interest, and not worth the telling. 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.