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Excerpt from Munimenta Antiqua, or Observations on Antient Castles, Vol. 1: Including Remarks on the Whole Progress of Architecture, Ecclesiastical, as Well as Military, in Great Britain, and on the Corresponding Changes, in Manners, Laws, and Customs
But we have lived, in these late ages of the world, to have such dreadful scenes of more than savage barbarity revived, - that, before the book can be published, the just apprehension is now become, lest such narrations should be even deemed useless as mere need less efforts to convince mankind of that horrid depravity of human nature, with which they are only too well acquainted. 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.
