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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, Statistics, and Natural History, 1863, Vol. 3
I have considered myself at liberty to enlarge the following Paper, wherever I thought it desirable to do so, while revising it for the press; and the result is a much thicker volume than was originally contemplated. Some of the additional information I have been able to embody in the text some I have given in notes; but there still remains a residue, which in the absence of any better outlet, I must publish in a preface. I. - Under the first of the three heads into which the Paper is divided, I would here call attention to the note at p. 133, which shows that an attempt was made in 1571 many years earlier than has been hitherto supposed - to obtain a Charter of Incorporation for the town and to the letter also of Dr. Trumbull, at pp. 196, 197, which gives the reasons for an application being made for the withdrawal of the Charter, after it had been granted, in the year 1685. I would beg that these passages may be taken in connec tion with the statements at pp. 19-21. And I have lately met in Burke's Vicissitudes of Families, 1859, pp. 199-201, with the following statements relating to Theodore Paleologus, whom I have mentioned at pp. 77, 78 In 1811 the tomb in which Theodoro Palaeologus was buried (at Landulph) was accidentally opened, and a body was there found in a single oak coffin, in so perfect a state as to determine that he was in stature far beyond the common height, and that his features were oval, and his nose very aquiline - all family traits. He had a very white beard, low down on his breast. 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.
