Excerpt from An Old Shropshire Oak, Vol. 3 Only imagine the consternation of my Talking Friend if anyone in his presence had condemned everlastingly the many priests of Hanwood he had known, and his time-honoured father had known, previous to the Reformation. Probably, indeed, they and those like to them, holy in their life and conversation, though they lived under the papacy, were the very salt that saved the mass from putrefaction. So, certainly, was it with the two rectors of Hanwood and Pontesbury above alluded to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.