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Wetton's Guide-book to Northampton, and its vicinity; with an historical and descriptive account of the town and neighbourhood

George Norman Wetton · 1849 · Scanned text

80,778 words · about 5 h 39 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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About this book

Author
George Norman Wetton
Language
English
Published
1849
Length
80,778 words · about 5 h 39 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Preface about 5 h 27 min
  3. Appendix about 12 min

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Front matter

N OR. HAM PTOn . WETTON'S GUIDE-BOOK TO NORTHAMPTON, AND ITS VICINITY; WITH AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT 'IF Ws\z Œoton anti iHetgfibourijocrt. NORTHAMPTON : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY G. N. WETTON. LONDON : LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1849. ERRATA. The reader will have the goodness to correct with the pen the following Errata, which escaped notice when the few others were referred to at p. 2..6. Page 103, for the men-at-arms, read ten men-at-arms. Page 139, line 16, the sentence should end with " husbands," and the word " in " begin a fre.h sentence, thus : — M In 1631, Mrs. Lucas of Monlton," &c. Page 151, line 9, omit the word " in " at the beginning ofthe line. Page 1 63, for with Jane Law and heir, read Jane, daughter and heir. Page 177, for thirty for feet half a mile, read thirty feet high for half a mile. Page 230, line 24, for all three heads conjoined, read ate three heads conjoined.

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