The history and antiquities of Enfield, in the county of Middlesex / [William Robinson].

  • William Robinson
Date:
1823
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Credit: The history and antiquities of Enfield, in the county of Middlesex / [William Robinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may possess. In offering this observation, I trust I shall not be understood to allude to any thing of this kind of recent occurrence; though the fact is, that in Enfield, as in other places, through secrecy of management, or some other cause, Charities have been lost. In consequence of the great mass of materials of which I found it necessary to avail myself I have been compelled to omit such biographical notices of eminent persons connected with the place, as would have been highly interesting to many readers, and would doubtless have proved a great recommendation to the work. I have, however, devoted a page to the memory of one pre-eminent individual ’, whose distinguished character and acknowledged merits in the literary world demand this mark of distinction. His long residence in the parish must have rendered him known to most of the inhabitants. His benefi¬ cent kindness must have endeared his memory to them all. Any particulars1 2 respecting 1 The late Richard Gough, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. 2 'rheobalds House was in a very dilapidated state for many years; but the state parlour, and the room in which
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