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Transcribed from the 1893 Jarrold & Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

PRESS NOTICES OF THE FIRST EDITION.

We cordially recommend Mr. Ritchies book to all who wish to pass an agreeable hour and to learn something of the outward actions and inner life of their predecessors. It is full of sketches of East Anglian celebrities, happily touched if lightly limned.East Anglian Daily Times.

A very entertaining and enjoyable book. Local gossip, a wide range of reading and industrious research, have enabled the author to enliven his pages with a wide diversity of subjects, specially attractive to East Anglians, but also of much general interest.Daily Chronicle.

The work is written in a light gossipy style, and by reason both of it and of the variety of persons introduced is interesting. To a Suffolk or Norfolk man it is, of course, especially attractive. The reader will go through these pages without being wearied by application. They form a pleasant and entertaining contribution to county literature, and East Anglia will, we should think, find its way to many of the east country bookshelves.Suffolk Chronicle.

The book is as readable and attractive a volume of local chronicles as could be desired. Though all of our readers may not see eye to eye with Mr. Ritchie, in regard to political and theological questions, they cannot fail to gain much enjoyment from his excellent delineation of old days in East Anglia.Norwich Mercury.

East Anglia has the merit of not being a compilation, which is more than can be said of the great majority of books produced in these days to satisfy the revived taste for topographical gossip. Mr. Ritchie is a Suffolk manthe son of a Nonconformist minister of Wrentham in that countyand he looks back to the old neighbourhood and the old times with an affection which is likely to communicate itself to its readers. Altogether we can with confidence recommend this book not only to East Anglians, but to all readers who have any affinity for works of its class.Daily News.

Mr. Ritchies book belongs to a class of which we have none too many, for when well done they illustrate contemporary history in a really charming manner. What with their past grandeur, their present progress, their martyrs, patriots, and authors, there is plenty to tell concerning Eastern counties: and one who writes with native enthusiasm is sure to command an audience.Baptist.

Mr. Ritchie, known to the numerous readers of the Christian World as Christopher Crayon, has the pen of a ready, racy, refreshing writer. He never writes a dull line, and never for a moment allows our interest to flag. In the work before us, which is not his first, he is, I should think, at his best. The volume is the outcome of extensive reading, many rambles over the districts described, and of thoughtful observation. We seem to live and move and have our being in East Anglia. Its folk-lore, its traditions, its worthies, its memorable events, are all vividly and charmingly placed before us, and we close the book sorry that there is no more of it, and wondering why it is that works of a similar kind have not more frequently appeared.Northern Pioneer.

It has yielded us more gratification than any work that we have read for a considerable time. The book ought to have a wide circulation in the Eastern counties, and will not fail to yield profit and delight wherever it finds its way.Essex Telegraph.

Mr. Ritchie has here written a most attractive chapter of autobiography. He recalls the scenes of his early days, and whatever was quaint or striking in connection with them, and finds in his recollections ready pegs on which to hang historical incident and antiquarian curiosities of many kinds. He passes from point to point in a delightfully cheerful and contagious mood. Mr. Ritchies reading has been as extensive and careful as his observation is keen and his temper genial; and his pages, which appeared in The Christian World Magazine, well deserve the honour of book-form, with the additions he has been able to make to them.British Quarterly Review.

EAST ANGLIA.

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
and
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS.

by
J. EWING RITCHIE.

Behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem.

Matthew .

SECOND EDITION,
revised , corrected , and enlarged .

LONDON:
JARROLD & SONS, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C.
1893.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

The chapters of which this little work consists originally appeared in the Christian World Magazine, where they were so fortunate as to attract favourable notice, and from which they are now reprinted, with a few slight additions, by permission of the Editor. In bringing out a second edition, I have incorporated the substance of other articles originally written for local journals. It is to be hoped, touching as they do a theme not easily exhausted, but always interesting to East Anglians, that they may help to sustain that love of ones county which, alas! like the love of country, is a matter reckoned to be of little importance in these cosmopolitan days, but which, nevertheless, has had not a little share in the formation of that national greatness and glory in which at all times Englishmen believe.

One word more. I have retained some strictures on the clergy of East Anglia, partly because they were true at the time to which I refer, and partly because it gives me pleasure to own that they are not so now. The Church of England clergyman of to-day is an immense improvement on that of my youth. In ability, in devotion to the duties of his calling, in intelligence, in self-denial, in zeal, he is equal to the clergy of any other denomination. If he has lost his hold upon Hodge, that, at any rate, is not his fault.

Clacton-on-Sea ,
January, 1893.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. a suffolk village .

Distinguished people born thereIts Puritans and NonconformistsThe country round CovehitheSouthwoldSuffolk dialectThe Great Eastern Railway

CHAPTER II. the stricklands .

Reydon HallThe clergyPakefieldSocial life in a village

CHAPTER III. lowestoft .

Yarmouth bloatersGeorge BorrowThe town fifty years agoThe distinguished natives

CHAPTER IV. politics and theology .

Homerton academyW. Johnson Fox, M.P.Politics in 1830Anti-Corn Law speechesWonderful oratory

CHAPTER V. bungay and its people .

Bungay NonconformityHannah MoreThe ChildsesThe Queens LibrarianPrince Albert

CHAPTER VI. a celebrated norfolk town .

Great Yarmouth NonconformistsIntellectual lifeDawson TurnerAstley CooperHudson GurneyMrs. Bendish

CHAPTER VII. the norfolk capital .

Briggs LaneThe carriers cartReform demonstrationThe old dragonChairing M.P.sHornbutton JackNorwich artists and literatiQuakers and Nonconformists

CHAPTER VIII. the suffolk capital .

The OrwellThe SparrowsIpswich notabilitiesGainsboroughMedical menNonconformists

CHAPTER IX. an old-fashioned town .

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