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but the dedication also, and the somewhat singular 

 prefatory remarks to this " History of Dartford and 

 Wilmington ; " but the extenuation is to be found in 

 the circumstance that these lines will constitute all 

 which will ever appear of this his last abortive and 

 strangled-for-want-of-means compilation; and as we 

 have very sparsely dealt with his printed works, since, 

 having been published, they are so far accessible; 

 so in the case of an unpublished MS., as it never 

 can be otherwise known or come at, a little more 

 licence seems permissible. 



