Preface. vii. 



The information brought together in these pages 

 has been gathered from very various sources, all 

 esteemed authentic. Everything that has needed 

 only a carefully observant life passed in the British 

 Islands is, so far as regards the author's own 

 responsibility, purely and wholly original. 



LEO. H. GRINDON. 



Manchester, October, 1885. 



