An Adventurer of Mettle. — Birth and Early Achievements — Explores the Mississippi to its Mouth. — Takes Possession in the Name of France — Fights his Way Back. — Returns to France.
I have carefully read the book through, and have made such small corrections and alterations as appeared necessary. That it has defects I make no doubt, but it is satisfactory to know that although it has been in use in large numbers during nearly two years. None worthy of mention have been discovered in it either by its users. Or its critics. On the other hand, I have received a large number of letters expressing the greatest satisfaction with it from fellow craftsmen, members of the architectural profession, and Others.
I have laid myself under so many debts in this task of compilation that it is impossible to make complete acknow ledgment: yet I cannot omit some mention of Dr. Macdevitt's excellent volume Tae Donegal High/ands. For the history I have consulted chiefly the Dictionary of National Biograptzy, Hill's filaea'omze/[s of Antrim and of course o'curry's edition of the Amiais of tfie Four Masters. I owe a more personal debt to my friend who is known as Moira o'neill for her permission to reprint two charming lyrics, and acknowledgments on the same account are due to the editors of the Spectator and Blacker/om: Magazine. But chiefly I have to thank Mr. John Cooke, editor of Murray's Hand-wok to Ireland, first for the assistance afforded to me by that excellent work, and secondly for his great kindness in revising the proof sheets of this book. To my many friends in the North I owe a gratitude which goes back to days long before I ever troubled them about things that I was writing; and I entreat their indulgence for stories maimed in the telling, and for whatever else I may seem to have written amiss in these pages which treat of a country not to be separated from my remembrance of them.
In the year 1856, I was called on by an old friend with a request to give one of a course of Lectures then being delivered under the auspices of the Rev. B. Wister Morris, at the Schoolroom of St. Davids Church, Manayunk, I consented, and took for my subject Manayunk: Its early history, rise, and progress. To do justice to the subject, I found it necessary to begin with the village two miles below Manayunk, the Falls of Schuylkill, where originated the Schuylkill Navigation Company, which, by creating the water-power or mill seats at Manayunk, was the primary cause of its origin. As I progressed there came up fresh on my mind so many interesting facts and circumstances, that I soon discovered I could not do justice to the subject in a single lecture. I therefore gave two, one on the Falls of Schuylkill, the other on Manayunk. What is contained in the following pages is the substance of those two lectures, which, at the repeated request of many persons, I have concluded to publish.
The book represents the results of many happily occupied recreative hours which have been stolen from a much-crowded business life. Some of the data collected will, it is hoped, have value for subsequent investigators in the same field.
Alderman Robert Fabyan, Sheriff in 1493, was buried in St. Michael's, Cornhill, in 1513. He compiled an elaborate Chronicle dealing with France as well as England, which he called The Concordance of Histories, and which Stow characterises as a painful labour to the honour of the City and the whole realm.
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