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he took in my brother's views, and the ready zeal 

 with which he assisted in promoting them. From 

 many other inhabitants of the village and its neigh- 

 bourhood my brother also received numerous testi- 

 monies of their good feeling towards himself and 

 the objects which he had in view. 



A month has not elapsed since I .had fondly 

 anticipated that this Preface would have been 

 written by the hand of him who prepared the 

 volume for the press. To the last his interest in 

 the work continued unabated : the corrections to 

 the earlier printed sheets of the " Antiquities" were 

 made by me at his bed-side and under his direc- 

 tions; and only three or four sheets remained 

 unrevised at the time of his death. His last in- 

 structions to me on any subject of worldly interest 

 had reference to the distribution of certain copies 

 of the book. I may therefore perhaps be excused for 

 having dwelt so long on topics of no great interest 

 to the world at large, and for giving way in some 

 degree to feelings which, although I may strive to 

 moderate, I cannot altogether repress. The time 

 may come when I may be able to write more 

 calmly on the subject, and when I may attempt to 

 pay a fitting tribute to the memory of one who 

 from infancy upwards was my best and truest 

 guide, counsellor, and friend. 



I. J. B. 



BULSTRODE STREET, 

 Sept. 15, 1836. 



