Excerpt from The Brights of Suffolk, England Few occupations are deemed by a majority of our countrymen less profitable than the pursuit of an ancestry so long passed away from the stage, and so much lost in the shadows of former ages, that a few mouldering relics are often the only vestiges left to mark the scene of their perhaps uneventful lives, of a majority of whom the most that can be told is, that they were born, and that they died. If the chase in search of kindred leads to distant lands, among the memorials of extinct families, whose very names may be unknown to their succes sors in the ancient homes where they flourished, it is usually set down as an idle employment. 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.