Excerpt from Ye Parish of Camerwell: A Brief Account of the Parish of Camberwell; Its History and Antiquities
A Preface is too often merely a medium for apology. Whilst regretting its necessity in my case, and condemning the practice in others, I am compelled nevertheless to thrust myself upon the indulgence of my subscribers, and ask forgiveness for the delay which has taken place in the publication of the present volume - a delay which has been caused by a desire on my part to enlarge the basis of my original design, and so present to my subscribers a more complete local history than I had originally contemplated.
Further apology I shall not make: for the support which I have received from the local gentry - embracing all shades of opinion and religious belief - is ample justification, if any were needed, for the compilation of such a work.
It is not in any way an ambitious book, but simply a collection of facts concerning a parish with which I am officially associated, and where my family have long been resident. My connection with the local press a few years since gave me perhaps the first idea of getting materials together for a local history, and my subsequent official position brought to my hand statistics showing the wonderful changes which had recently come over the Parish of Camberwell. I was further encouraged to proceed from the fact that, beyond the slight sketch of Camberwell given by Lysons, in his Environs of London, and by Manning and Bray, and by Brayley, in their County Histories, there had only been one attempt to chronicle local events, and bring Old Camber¬well out of the obscurity to which time and negligence had consigned it. Of Mr. Douglas Allport's able Collections concerning Camberwell, published in 1841, I desire to speak in terms of the highest praise. As a local history it will ever be regarded as a book of the greatest authority. It is, however, now rarely met with, and on application to the representatives of Mr. Allport's family, I at once received permission to copy such of the illustrations in Mr. Douglas Allport's book as I might like to select a permission which has been made use of in a few instances. I have also made siight use of materials found in the County Histories, and in minor publications; but by far the greater portion of the following compilation is from original documents.
I have received during the past three years-that is, from the time it became known that I was engaged upon the work-the most liberal, and indeed unlooked-for, assistance.
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