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Author of "Notes on Turton Tower," "Documentary Notes on Turton,"

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THE VICAR, CHURCHWARDENS, AND CONGREGATION

OF THE PARISH CHURCH,

BOLTON,

THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY ONE OF

THE CONGREGATION.

PREFACE.

Were it not allowable to

A PREFACE to these Memorials is, above all things, necessary for the complete success of this work. write such an introduction, then those deficiencies which may be herein detected would tend to bias the reader against the entire book, and perhaps imperil the authenticity of its compilation. Therefore, the opportunity so temptingly offered is now taken, and any explanations or apologies required of me regarding this production are willingly given.

Explanations, to a certain extent, are incumbent on the writer and at the same time necessary to the reader; but apologies, as a rule, are seldom appreciated. Of the former I have a few to offer, but of the latter only one is needful-viz., for the book in its entirety. When it is known that the object for which it was especially and voluntarily compiled was to augment the fund of the new Organ, which so becomingly graces our noble Church, this literary effusion will be pardoned. Had it not been for this specific purpose the thought resulting in these "Memorials of the Bolton Parish Church

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