PREFACE 



The great success of my two former books, ' Echoes 

 of Old County Life ' (E. Arnold), and ' Recollec- 

 tions of Old Country Life' (Longmans), with the 

 generous and unstinted praise accorded to them by 

 nearly all the London and Provincial press, has 

 emboldened me to bring out another volume, which 

 I have called ' Records of Old Times.' This will 

 complete a Trilogy that I am vain enough to 

 believe will prove agreeable to my former readers, 

 comprehending, as it does, a series of reminiscences 

 of interesting events in which I have been a moving 

 centre, as well as ' Old Records ' which I have 

 been enabled to glean in my researches relating to 

 Buckinghamshire and the neighbouring counties. 

 In my first volume I ventured to remark ' that these 

 reminiscences differ from others that have hitherto 

 been published ... as being a fair representation 



