Excerpt from Tales of an Antiquary, Vol. 1 of 3: Chiefly Illustrative of the Manners, Traditions, and Remarkable Localities of Ancient London Almost every species of History abounds with a certain kind of unconsidered trifles, which the dignity of an Annalist either slights or overlooks; inasmuch as they want two most important qualities to fit them for becoming his materials, circumstantial detail, and com plete verification. For the most part, they are simply oral traditions, occasionally interesting enough, though generated one knows not how; and they are frequently only hints of strange events, blended with public history, of which nothing but a few words remain, and those, un satisfactory, or of doubtful import. Of this in describable nature are the general materials of the Tales which follow; which are neither strict historical truth, nor yet entirely romantic fable. 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.