large col- lections of antique, original, authentick manuscripts, in publick and private libraries, registers, &c. The materials and assistances, that I have made use of, will best appear from my vouchers and quotations herein cited, viz. Blomefield, present- ing him with the entire history of the hundreds of Grimshow, and South Greenhow, several gentlemen solicited me to undertake this work, which I complied with, in hopes of its being acceptable, not only to the gentlemen of Norfolk, but to all lovers of antiquity in general. Blomefield, at his death, who had treated chiefly on the southern parts of it, and no person since that time proposing, or inclining to complete the same: as I was known to have made, for many years past, considerable col- lections on that subject, and had assisted Mr. The History of the County of Norfolk, (a county of a very great ex- tent,) being left unfinished by the Reverend Mr.
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