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HISTORY

OF THE

COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER;

COMPRESSED,

AND

BROUGHT DOWN TO THE YEAR 1803.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

BY THE REV. THOMAS RUDGE, B. D.

RECTOR OF SAINT MICHAEL, IN GLOUCESTER.

Nec mihi vitio vertas, si res, quas ex lectione varia mutuabor, ipsis sæpe verbis, quibus
ab ipsis auctoribus enarratae sunt, explicabo, quia præsens opus, non eloquentiæ ostentatio-
nem, sed noscendorum congeriem pollicetur.

MACROBIUS, SATURN. Lib. i. c. 1.

GLOUCESTER:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY G. F. HARRIS,
HERALD NEWSPAPER OFFICE;

AND SOLD BY LONGMAN AND REES, LONDON; WASHBOURN, HOUGH, AND
ROBERTS, GLOUCESTER; AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

1803.