Transcribed from the 1852 Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmansedition ,
A COMPLETE DIGEST OF FACTSOCCURRING IN THE
COUNTY SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF
THE YEAR 1800.
BY
T. C. TURBERVILLE.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,
AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
1852.
p. iiBIRMINGHAM:
PRINTED BY JOSIAH ALLEN AND SON,
3, COLMORE ROW.
IS, BY KINDPERMISSION,
DEDICATEDTO
THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN SOMERSETPAKINGTON,
OF WESTWOOD PARK, BART., M.P.,
PRINCIPALSECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.
In this day the man who writes auseless book, commits a great sin against society. The aimof this volume is utility; although the word, as applied to it,must be interpreted in a very limited sense. Beyond acircuit of a few miles it will have no interest; and even inrespect to its legitimate sphere it only assumes to be a recordof facts by which the man in public life may refresh his memoryas to the particulars of past events, or by which those who havelived and moved amongst the occurrences here set down may call uppleasant associations of things and times gone by. By itsmeans all persons resident in or connected with Worcestershiremay possess themselves of a knowledge of the history of theCounty during the century, besides having at their command arepertory of all the principal events of the locality. Itwould in many instances have been more gratifying to the writerto have exchanged the chronicle for the narrative—the annalfor something more pretentious as a history, but the“utility” of the book would thereby have beenimpaired, and he refrained. To have attempted acontinuation of Nash would have been mere pedantry, andthe mode would have been wholly unsuitable for a record of modernWorcestershire. As for the opinions which may be foundscattered here and there on the following pages, the writer is nofurther anxious about them than as being naturally desirous thatwhat he believes to be truth should be accepted and acted upon byothers. But as to the facts professed to be narrated, hehopes that they will be found scrupulously accurate andundistorted by anything like party bias; of the faults ofomission, no one can be so conscious as the writer himself, butthe book, even now, is larger than he had at firstintended. If errors should be found, those whose censurewould be the weightiest will readily be able to suggest abundanceof excuses, and to their forbearance he unhesitatingly trusts thefollowing pages.
Worcester, October, 1852.
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