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researches have much in common in respect to 

 method — the object of both being to ascertain facts 

 and to trace out their concatenations and correlations. 

 In lately editing for the Camden Society the life and 

 times of my ancestral kinsman, brave old Bishop 

 Bedell, of Kilmore — 'Saint, Sage and Hero' as he 

 has been happily characterised by Mr. Gladstone, 

 I followed, in a small way, the example of Niebuhr 

 and Mommsen, inasmuch as I searched or had 

 searches made in all directions, for original documents 

 — wills, state papers, letters, and the seals thereto 

 attached, parish registers, diocesan registers, tomb- 

 stones, &c. In doing so, the aim was to obtain 

 authentic information from genuine contemporary 

 documents, in regard to the true reading of which there 

 could be no doubt, and thereby to correct various 

 current misconceptions. This, it is obvious, was 

 merely the prompting of common sense and duty — 

 although I believe that habits of scientific method in 

 physiological and pathological researches may have 

 materially aided the exercise discrimination in my 

 genealogical and historical inquiries. 



T. Wharton Jones. 



35 George Street, Hanover Square, London : 

 Jamiary I, 1S76. 



