The history of the town of Thetford, in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, from the earliest accounts to the present time / [Edited from author's MS. by Richard Gough].
- Thomas Martin
- Date:
- 1779
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of the town of Thetford, in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, from the earliest accounts to the present time / [Edited from author's MS. by Richard Gough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I iU ] • ? j r r ► , - ^ , ADVERTISEMENT. H E abilities of Mr. Thomas Martin, and the oppar- tunies he derived from the collections of Peter Le Neve, Efq. Norroy King at Arms, render it unneceffary to en¬ large on the Hiftory of his native town of Thetford, which Mr. Blomefield thirty years ago encouraged the public to expeCt from his hands. . The materials being left without thelaft finifhing at Mr. o o Martin’s death, were purchafed by Mr. John Worth, che^ mift* of Difs, F. S. A. who entertained thoughts of giving them to the public, and circulated propofals, dated July i, 17:74r for printing them by lubfcription. Upon the en¬ couragement he received, he had actually printed five fheets of the work, and engraved four plates. This fecond effort was blafted by the immature death of Mr. Worth, 1775; who dying infolvent, his library, in¬ cluding what he had referved of the immenfe collections of Le Neve and Martin at their difperfion on the death of the latter, being fold with his other effects for the benefit of his creditors, was purchafed the fame year by Mr. Thomas* Blunt, book feller, at Harlefton, Of him I bought the ma- . ! a 2 nufcriptq,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30409342_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
