Excerpt from The Church Bells of Hertfordshire: Their Founders, Inscriptions, Traditions, and Peculiar Uses
Few words are wanted from me to preface this work of my deceased friend, Mr. North. I am very thankful to his widow for entrusting the completion of it to my unworthy self.
At the time of his lamented death, the book was well advanced; nearly the whole of the material was in hand, and a large portion of the text written. My work, then, has been mainly to edit, with the exception of the chronological account of the Bells of Hertfordshire, which is entirely my own writing. I mention this specially, in order that Mr. North may not be criticised on account of any of the theories therein contained. If he erred at all, it was on the side of overcaution, and I am by no means sure, if he had, happily, survived to have written the chapter, that he would have dealt with the various groups of bells in the same way that I have done.
I have now to thank the many friends of his and mine who have given a helping hand, and in doing this, I fear that I shall be compelled to omit the names of some, perhaps of many. Mr. North left a careful list of all to whom he was indebted for rubbings or copies of inscriptions, but not of those who supplied him with other and valuable information, and I have had to gather them from a necessarily hasty perusal of a large mass of correspondence.
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