O A DESCRIPTIVE HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF EVESHAM, FROM THE FOUNDATION OF ITS SAXON MONASTERY: WITH NOTICES RESPECTING THE ANCIENT DEANERY OF ITS VALE. BY GEORGE MAY. BASED UPON A FORMER PUBLICATION BY THE AUTHOR, REVISED THROUGHOUT. EVESHAM, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GEORGE MAY. LONDON, WHITTAKER & CO.; AND J. B. NICHOLS & SON : AND BY ORDER FROM ANY BOOKSELLER. 1845. 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. |