TO 



JOHN HUGHES, ESQUIRE, 



OP 



DONNINGTON PRIORY, 



IN THE COUNTY OP BERKS. 



MY DEAR SIR, 



To you, as a kind friend whose 

 streams I have often fished, and of whose 

 hospitality I have as often partaken, to 

 you, as the preserver and restorer of " Ovvld 

 Grumbleton," I have ventured to inscribe 

 this little volume. 



Other reasons, however, induce me to 

 make free with your name. Your fond- 

 ness for the remains of that dialect which 

 I have here incidentally attempted to vin- 

 dicate and illustrate, is well known, a 



