Excerpt from The History of Wigan, Vol. 2 Although by no means hopeful of pleasing everybody, as the impossible must necessarily be unattainable, I have overlooked no means and spared no efforts to make my History of Wigan a good, true, comprehensive, and interesting local work, and I believe that this second volume will be doubly welcome because of the great amount of hitherto unpublished matter, taken chiefly from the Corporation documents, registers, and churchwardens' accounts, which will be pleasing not only to ...
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Excerpt from The History of Wigan, Vol. 2 Although by no means hopeful of pleasing everybody, as the impossible must necessarily be unattainable, I have overlooked no means and spared no efforts to make my History of Wigan a good, true, comprehensive, and interesting local work, and I believe that this second volume will be doubly welcome because of the great amount of hitherto unpublished matter, taken chiefly from the Corporation documents, registers, and churchwardens' accounts, which will be pleasing not only to the general reader, but to the antiquary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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