Excerpt from Wilton and Its Associations
Whatever measure of success this work may attain will be mainly owing, I am persuaded, to its illustra tion by the pencil of Mr. Tiflin, with whom I esteem myself fortunate to have been associated in its produc tion. For my own part, I have simply endeavoured to record a few of the picturesque incidents connected with the past history of Wilton, and certain of its more in teresting associations in the most popular style I could command. I have abstained from encumbering the text by an enumeration of the various antiquarian, historical, and biographical authorities to which I have had recourse, as they will easily suggest themselves to the minds of those who are familiar with such sub jects, and will be readily dispensed with by the general reader, for whom, indeed, the work is more especially intended. Writing at a distance from those invaluable stores of information to which a literary man has access in the metropolis, I fear I shall be found to have committed many oversights, which the learned antiquary will detect, and which I hope the extenuating circumstance I have mentioned will ex.
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