A History, topographical, archæological, genealogical, and biographical, of the parishes of West and East Bradenham, with those of Necton and Holme Hale, in the County of Norfolk ... With an introduction by ... A. Jessopp ... With illustrations

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A HISTORY OF THE PARISHES OF WEST AND EAST BRADENHAM, WITH THOSE OF NECTON AND HOLME HALE. A HISTOEY, TOPOGRAPHICAL, ARCHÆOLOGICAL, GENEALOGICAL, AND BIOGRAPHICAL, OF THE PARISHES OF Wint .nut (tot Itotalmm, WITH THOSE OF NECTON AND HOLME HALE 1 IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, jFrom -public Escorts, Court l&olls, mills, -parisl. Registers, anti Sources. BY THE LATE G. A. CAETHEW, ESQ., F.S.A., M.A.I., AUTHOR OF THE "HISTORY OF THE HUNDRED OF LAUNDITCH," ETC. WITH %n Introduction BY THE REV. AUGUSTUS JESSOPP, D-D., AUTHOR OF "ONE GENERATION OF A NORFOLK HOUSE." WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. NORWICH PRINTED BA" AGAS H. GOOSE AND CO., RAAIPANT HORSE STREET. 1883. Jtibertisemcnt. man who undertakes lu complete lhe unfinished work of another vp I is lively to commit a douhle injustice ; one to himself, the other |H£ffjL!ii|| to the original workman.

He cannot hope to carry out exactly his predecessor's plan, or to bring to bear upon any question that may emerge, precisely the eyidence and illustration which might, in the first instance, have been ready at hand ; and he will always be reluctant to introduce new matter which the first planner of the work might have been perfectly conversant with, and yet advisedly withheld. Tastes and opinions differ, and in the method of treating the facts or the problems of history, no two men, however much they may sympathize with one another in the main, can be found to be perfectly of one mind. It was because Mr. Carthew knew this so well, that he ne>Ter contemplated my finishing his book, in the event of his death occurring before it could be completed : and because I knew it too, I should have shrunk from such a presumptuous undertaking, if the proposal had ever been made to me.

Mr. Carthew was an antiquarian almost from his cradle, and inherited from his father, not only the remarkable faculty for research Avhich he exhibited to the last, but no small store of materials which he found collected to his hand. It was when his vital energy Avas waning and his power of personally looking into difficulties and following up a clue had just a little diminished, that he commenced this volume. Before entering upon his task he made it a stipulation with his publishers that I should preface the work Avith an fntroduction. I felt too much complimented, and had too much to thank my good old friend for, to alloAv of my making any difficulties, and though no man knows better than I on how much higher a level, as a student of local history, Mr. Carthew stood than I can ever hope to