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Title: Rambles in an Old City
comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations

Author: S. S. Madders

Release Date: September 14, 2010 [eBook #33724]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RAMBLES IN AN OLD CITY***

Transcribed from the 1853 Thomas Cautley Newby edition by David Price,
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[Picture: Norwich street scene]

Rambles in an Old City;

COMPRISING

ANTIQUARIAN, HISTORICAL,

BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS

By S. S. Madders.

* * * * *

LONDON:
Thomas Cautley Newby,
30, WELBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE.

MDCCCLIII.

PREFACE.

It has been very aptly remarked by a recent writer, that "to send forth a
work without a preface, is like thrusting a friend into the society of a
room full of strangers, without the benefit of an introduction;" a custom
that no _fashion_ can redeem from the charge of incivility. A book,
however insignificant, grows beneath the author's pen, to occupy a place
in his regard, not unworthy the title of friendship; and as that sacred
bond of social union is not dependent upon individual perfection, so the
companion of many a solitary hour is not to be cast out upon the "wide,
wide world," without one word to secure it at least a gentle reception,
be its faults as manifold and manifest as they may, even to the most
partial eye.

The design of this little book of "Rambles," has been to concentrate into
the form of a light and amusing volume, some few of the many subjects of
interest suggested by the leading features of an "Old City." It makes no
pretensions to any profound learning or deep research. It is little more
than a _compilation_ of facts, interwoven with the history of one of the
oldest cathedr