BY THOMAS INGOLDSBY, ESQ. pt con.... IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. EDITED, WITH NOTES INTRODUCTORY AND ILLUSTRATIVE, BY R. H. DALTON BARILAM. RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, M.DCCC.LXX. [All Rights reserved.] TO RICHARD BENTLEY, ESQ. MY DEAR SIR, You tell me that "a generous and enlightened Public" has given a favourable reception to those extracts from our family papers, which, at your suggestion, were laid before it some two years since;-and you hint, with all possible delicacy, that a second volume might not be altogether unacceptable at a period of the year when "auld warld stories" are more especially in request.-With all my heart, the old oak chest is not yet empty; in addition to which, I have recently laid my hand upon a long MS. correspondence of my great Uncle, Sir Peregrine Ingoldsby, a cadet of the family, who somehow contrived to attract the notice of George the Second, and received from his honour-giving hand" the accolade of knighthood. To this last-named source I am indebted for several of the ac companying histories, while my inestimable friend Simpkinson has bent all the powers of his mighty mind to the task. From Father John's stores I have drawn largely. Our "Honourable" friend Sucklethumbkin - by the way, he has been beating our coverts lately, when he shot a woodcock, and one of the Governor's pointers gives a graphic account of the Operatic "row" in which he was hereto |