tian World Magazine_, well deserve the honour of book-form, with
the additions he has been able to make to them.'--_British Quarterly
Review_.

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EAST ANGLIA.

_PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS_
AND
_HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS_.

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BY
J. EWING RITCHIE.

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'Behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem.'

MATTHEW.

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_SECOND EDITION_,
REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED.

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LONDON:
JARROLD & SONS, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C.
1893.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

The chapters of which this little work consists originally appeared in
the _Christian World Magazine_, where they were so fortunate as to
attract favourable notice, and from which they are now reprinted, with a
few slight additions, by permission of the Editor. In bringing out a
second edition, I have incorporated the substance of other articles
originally written for local journals. It is to be hoped, touching as
they do a theme not easily exhausted, but always interesting to East
Anglians, that they may help to sustain that love of one's county which,
alas! like the love of country, is a matter reckoned to be of little
importance in these cosmopolitan days, but which, nevertheless, has had
not a little share in the formation of that national greatness and glory
in which at all times Englishmen believe.

One word more. I have retained some strictures on the clergy of East
Anglia, partly because they were true at the time to which I refer, and
partly because it gives me pleasure to own that they are not so now. The
Church of England clergyman of to-day is an immense improvement on that
of my youth. In ability, in devotion to the duties of his calling, in
intelligence, in self-denial, in zeal, he is equal to the clergy of any
other denomination. If he has lost his hold upon Hodge, that, at any
rate, is not his fault.

CLACTON-ON-SEA,