ANTIQUATED SPOTS

ROUND CHELTENHAM.

BY W. T. NEWENHAM, B. A.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.

"Quod superest, vacuas aureis mihi, Memmius, et te,
Semotum a curis, adhibe veram ad rationem:

Ne mea dona, tibi studio disposta fideli,

Intellecta prius quam sint, contemta relinquas.”

Lucret. lib. 1. 45.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

CHELTENHAM HADLEY.

AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

PREFACE.

Vain book! bedeck'd with binding gay,

You, anxious, seek the dazzling glare of day;
To take your place upon the sellers' stand;
And tempt the vulgar gaze, the common hand.
A modest, and retired life you hate;

And dare to tempt the dark decrees of fate.

Such vanity in me you never knew,

Delighted with a choice, selected few:

But hence! vain thing, go even where you would;

And seek thy fortune among bad and good.

HOR. Epist. i. 20.-(a translation.)

THE reader will be pleased to bear in mind that this work never was intended to supply the place of a book of reference; consequently some errors of minor importance may be found in it. This circumstance is unavoidable, seeing that the historical matter has been chiefly collated, from various published sources, without being

subject to the revisal of those, who, from their family connections, or from possession of estates, have it in their power to make corrections.

The delight the author has experienced in wandering through the beautiful scenes in the vicinity of Cheltenham, principally induced him to commit his experience to paper; so that others who visit the neighbourhood may have their curiosity so excited as to incline them to pay regard to those "spots," which are rendered doubly interesting by historical associations.

It is the wish of the author to lay open, after a very humble sort, the books of nature and history, side by side-and call upon others to read for themselves.