Prefatory Note. IN our Memorial-Introduction will be found such information concerning this Worthy and his Poems, as survives. Thither I refer the Reader. But here I wish to call attention to the five interesting and admirably taken and as admirably rendered Illustrations with which our large paper copies are enriched. Not one has before been taken: and they have all been specially and exclusively furnished for our book: the drawings being removed from the plates when our very limited requisite impressions were worked off. For the whole of these, as well as the facsimile of a most characteristic autograph, I owe right hearty thanks to my gifted artist-friend, the Rev. W. Francis Francis, Great Saxham Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds-who has also been ingenious in devising ways of rendering help for this and other of our Worthies. I unite with him the Rev. Samuel Cross, M.A., Curate of Wilby, and the Rev. G. Lewis Allsopp, B |