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" Argute resonas Citharse praetendere cliordas, 

 Novit et Aonia concrepuisse lyra. 

 Gaudebat terra3 teneras defigere plantas, 

 Et inira pulchras construere arte domos. 

 Composita varias lingua formare loquelas, 

 Doctus et edocta scribere multa manu." 



Cleared of the slanders wliicli had been so unjustly 

 heaped upon his memory, one can welcome Anthony 

 Forster, the Squire of Cumnor, as a member of the 

 same distinguished family from which the Willey 

 Squire and the present ennobled house of Willey are 

 descended.* But before introducing the Squire, it is 

 fitting to say something of Willey itself. 



* For a more complete account of the Forester family, we refer 

 the reader to the Pedigree given in the Appendix E. 



