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Excerpt from An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, in the Isle of Ely, in the County of Cambridge: And of the Circumjacent Towns and Villages, the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, the Origin of the Royal Franchise of the Isle of Ely, &C
Sort of relish belonging to them, which 1s to be attributed rather to the love we feel for the place of our birth or long residence, than to any real value in the narrative. All ranks and conditions of men naturally wish to know something of the first state of scenes endeared to them by habit and many pleasing recollections, and if fixed by providence in situations remote from the home of their earlier years, every account of what were once the haunts of their youth speaks at once to the inmost feelings, and with magic in?uence revives associations which time and distance had repressed but not destroyed. No person has hitherto, to my knowledge, given himself the trouble of inquiring into the ancient history of the town of Wisbech, which undoubtedly is a place of considerable antiquity, and in former times could boast of being dignified with a castle. The condition of places we know is subject to continual vicissitudes, ebbing and ?owing in regard to trade, extent of buildings, and number of inhabitants, which the History of Wisbech will exemplify. Having lately held the chief annual.
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