Excerpt from The Antiquarian Repertory, Vol. 1 of 4: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manners; Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times The Original Work, published in 1775, and compiled by the inaefatigable and excellent francis Gnosz, was received by the world with the utmost avidity; and has, in the course of a few years, become so scarce and valuable, that a copy can hardly be procured at any price. For the motives in which this compilation originated, we refer with pleasure to Mr. Grose's own words, as given in his Introduction, (which will also be found subjoined to this Adver tisement, ) and which, although tinctured with that shade of humour so peculiarly his own, is not the less apposite or satisfactory to the puypose of pointing out the advantages derivable to the community from the collecting and embodying of such scarce and valuable tracts, relating to the Antiquities of this Country, (whether in ms. Or print, ) as had escaped the ravages of time, and were only to be found in the hands of the curious Collector, or looked up in Librae' 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.