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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable a...

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...story of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of ... ...e Hartley Museum, Southampton. Of the Roman times we know nothing but that part of the great Roman road between Caer Gwent (or V enta Belgarum, as the... ..., which was dug up by a labourer at Otterbourne, in the course of making a new road. He thought it one of the plates carried on the Roman stan- dards ... ...f her age. Mrs. Ann Maijor, mother of the said Mrs. Dorothy Cromwell, died 13th of June 1662. Richard Maijor, Esq., husband of the said Mrs. Ann Maijo... ...aijor, died 25th April 1660. Mrs. Dorothy Cromwell, a fifth daughter, died 13th De- cember 1658, in the 2nd year of her age. A fourth daughter died 27... ...e himself with his education. If possible, a baby was short-coated on Good Friday, to ensure not catching cold. The old custom (now gone out) was that... ...om (now gone out) was that farmers should send their men to church on Good Friday. They used all to appear in their rough dirty smock frocks and go ba...

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...Excerpt: General Introduction: There are few amusements more dangerous for an author than the indulgence in ironic descriptions of his own work. If the irony is depreciatory, posterity is but too likely to say, ?Many a true word is spoken in jest;? if it is encomiastic, the same ruthless and ungrateful critic is b...

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