Excerpt from The Antiquities of Stamford and St. Martin's, Vol. 1: Compiled Chiefly From the Annals of the Rev. Francis Peck, With Notes To come to the the third head, I mull needs fay that not a little pains have been taken in compiling this Hillary, but how well it is compiled is not for me to fay; yet whatever deficiencies in it may be dif covered by the learned reader, or whatever worthy of natice he may remark, will be thankfully received, and inferred in a future edition, provided it lhould arrive at the honour of a future edition, which is an honour no Hillary of Stamford hath' ever yet arri ved at. 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.