Excerpt from Bygone Warwickshire Greatest possible interest, an interest by no means confined to the county. In the following pages an attempt is made to deal in a readable form, but at the same time a scholar-like style, with the stirring events, social life, amusements, curious customs, folk-lore, etc., of the shire. Shakespeare has given to Warwickshire a ivorld wide fame, and on this account his life receives much attention. It is only fair to Mr. Leo. Grindon, the writer of The Shakespeare Garden, to state that we have adopted our own, and not his, mode of spelling the name of the poet. It now only remains for me to thank my contributors for their valuable assistance, and to express a hope that the volume may find favour with the. 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.