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ivitli satisfaction the traffic of Cheapside thronging 

 the grass-groivn market-place. 



No brief is held for such an one in these pages, 

 nor is it likely that the professional antiquary tvill 

 find in them anything not already knotvn to him,. 

 The hook, like all its predecessors, and like those 

 that are to follow it, is intended for those who 

 journey doivn the roads either in person or in 

 imaginatio7i, and to their judgment it is left. In 

 conclusion, let m,e acknowledge the valuable infor- 

 mation ivith regard to Wiltshire afforded me by 

 Cecil Simpson, Esq., than ivhom no one knows the 

 cou7ity better. 



CHARLES G. HARPEE. 



Petersham, Surrey, .M 



October 1899. 



