PREFATORY ADDRESS. AT length my promised volume is concluded; wherein I have striven to present in a useful and attractive form the history of a locality which has now during seventeen years contained my home. Nor have I here omitted opportunities to preserve by the pencil and the graving-tool a faithful resemblance of interesting objects, the originals of which are-in some instances ―already marred or modified since the drawings were made. Should the result of all my labor prove satisfactory to those for whom I write-and should additional copies of the book, for this cause, quit my shelves, to enter the libraries of topographers, or to be hailed elsewhere as memorative of a well-known spot by those who have spent some portion of their time within its bounds, my fullest expectations will be then achieved. G. M. EVESHAM, SEPTEMBER, 1845. PREPATORY ADDRESS CONTENTS. Associations-Free-Schools-Population-Employment-Pecuniary Tokens -Local Courts-Assessments-Noticeable Customs-Markets and Fairs 305 343 353 373 I.-Letter from Clement Abbot of Evesham, to Cromwell Lord Privy Seal II. Unpublished Letter from Philip Abbot of Evesham, to Cromwell Lord III.-Original Letter from the Abbot and Convent of Evesham, to Crom- |