YOUR illustrious ancestry, your liberality of sentiment, your disinterestedness on all occasions, your fostering influence, your unbounded hospitality, entitles you to the warmest praise. In consequence of these eminent qualifications, so justly your own; together with the high sense entertained by the Author, of your willingness at all times, to lend your patronage to the most humble individual, and to a work which tends to arrest from the hand of time the history of that ancient but loyal Borough of Preston, over which your family have strong claims, as to its original state in other days. A Town which has invariably been attached to that Ancient and Honourable House of which, my Lord, you are the Representative. In hopes that your Lordship's patronage may prove an incentive to further research into the History of this Town, It is inscribed, with all due respect, By your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, MARM. TULKET, O. S. B. Preston, Jan. 1st, 1821. |