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Title: A Walk through Leicester
being a Guide to Strangers
Author: Susanna Watts
Release Date: June 24, 2008 [eBook #25895]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WALK THROUGH LEICESTER***
Transcribed from the 1804 T. Combe edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org
A
WALK
THROUGH
_LEICESTER_;
BEING
A GUIDE TO STRANGERS,
CONTAINING
A DESCRIPTION
OF THE
TOWN AND ITS ENVIRONS,
WITH REMARKS UPON ITS
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES.
"Within this hour it will be dinner-time,
Till that I'll view the manners of the town,
Peruse its traders, gaze upon its buildings,
And then return and sleep within mine inn."
SHAKESPEARE.
LEICESTER, PRINTED BY T. COMBE,
AND SOLD BY
T. HURST, PATER-NOSTER-ROW, LONDON,
1804.
ADDRESS.
The Editor of the following pages, while he has been solicitous to
furnish those who _travel_ with a POCKET CICERONE, feels at the same time
a wish that it may not be unacceptable to those who are _at home_. The
latter, though, in the subject of this survey, they trace an old, a
familiar scene, will still feel that it possesses that interest which the
native spot binds around the mind, and when they point out to their
intelligent visitors and curious friends the most memorable objects of
their antient and honourable Town, it is his wish that this little
companion may be found useful; he, therefore, while he rejoices in their
support and feels their liberality, inscribes i
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