HALF-A-DOZEN SKETCHES IN THE VICINITY OF HARTWELL: CONCERNING COLD HARBOURS:
ON THE PURSUIT OF ARCHÆOLOGY, AND ON RUBBINGS: ON CERTAIN RELICS FOUND NEAR
AYLESBURY: ON A DOUBLE-FACED " BRASS IN STONE CHURCH: A WORD MORE ON THE
‘DOUBLE-FACED" BRASS: THE SIEGES OF BOARSTALL, WITH RELICS OF OLIVER CROMWELL

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APPENDIX.

ADMIRAL SMYTH'S PUBLISHED AND PRIVATELY-PRINTED WORKS, IN DR. LEE'S POSSESSION;
WITH NOTES AND REMARKS IN ILLUSTRATION. THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS:—

ADDENDA

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THE EDES HARTWELLIANE.

CHAPTER I.

ADDITIONAL REMARKS, IN CONTINUATION OF THE FIRST CHAPTER OF

THE EDES HARTWELLIANÆ.

The stately Homes of England, how beautiful they stand,
Amid their tall ancestral trees, the glory of our land.

§ 1. INTRODUCTORY MATTER.

ALTHOUGH the interesting mansion and manor of Hartwell were rather amply set forth by the present writer in a former work, a residence of twelve years on an adjoining spot, since the launch of that volume, has matured his acquaintance with many local peculiarities, not only of the immediate site, but also with those features of the neighbourhood which may be looked upon, in some degree, as connected with the traditions and fortunes of the House of Hartwell. Such instances were from time to time duly jotted down, or, as the redoubtable Captain Cuttle would have had it, "made a note of," in order to their being inserted in an interleaved copy of the above-cited Edes.

On discussing some of these points with my worthy compeer, Dr. Lee, and showing him a portion of the conclusions which I had arrived at, that gentleman expressed himself desirous of their being printed for general circulation; thereby adding such strength to the former statements as would convey a tolerably complete representation of the estate with respect to position,

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