The history and antiquities of Scarborough and the vicinity. With views and plans / by Thomas Hinderwell.

  • Hinderwell, Thomas, 1744-1825.
Date:
1798
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history and antiquities of Scarborough and the vicinity. With views and plans / by Thomas Hinderwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE — — Magiftrates of the Borough of Scarborough^ THE BURGESSES, AND INHABITANTS at LARGE. The language of adulation is too frequently ufed in ad^ drefles of this nature; but the profeffions of efteem now offered, fpring from a higher fource than the formality of a complimentary dedication^—they are the fentiments of the heart, the dictates of a warm attachment, matured by long refidence, and cemented by the ties of friendfhip and gratitude. The motives which induced me to this undertaking, were, neither the profpedl of emolument, nor the ambi- tion