An History Of The Original Parish Of Whalley And Honor Of Clitheroe To Which Is Subjoined An Account Of The Parish Of Cartmell 4th Ed Rev And Enl

Author : Thomas Dunham Whitaker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364082249
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe, Vol. 2 written by Thomas Dunham Whitaker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe, Vol. 2: To Which Is Subjoined an Account of the Parish of Cartmell; Continued and Completed by the Rev. Ponsonby A. Lyons, B.A A topographical work, from the nature of its subject, and the fragmentary character of its sources, cannot be free from errors and defects. It must treat of a great number of places, many of which are obscure and remote; of a host of persons of whom many lived in distant ages, and most were in their own day little known out of their own neighbour hood, and have long been almost or altogether forgotten. Yet of all these persons and places as full and accurate an account should be given, as if each were of the utmost importance and interest. But the materials for doing this are imperfect, and their remains are scattered far and wide. And though collected and arranged with the utmost care, skill, and sagacity, with the greatest diligence and patience, the result, as Lord Bacon says in the passage selected by Dr. Whitaker for the title-page of this work, will be mere remnants of history imperfect in their very nature. The History of Whalley is no exception to this general character. Dr. Whitaker's conceptions of the mode in which topography should be written, of its important relations to general history, and of the interest and instruction to be derived from it, were enlarged and correct the design of his work was excellent, the pictures he draws of the past most animated and vivid; but he was careless in the execution of his work, and impatient of the minute care and sustained attention necessary to obtain the greatest possible correctness, and he appears to have felt the long labour of working out details, and of revision and correction, intolerably irksome and tedious. 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.