The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Vol. 1: The High Peak HundredThe careers of these renowned persons have suffered more from the compilers than the strata or ¿ora or fauna of the county. To get anything like a glimpse of the careers of the renowned persons of the Peak Hundred alone, there is no exaggeration in saying that hundreds of volumes and many thousands of pages have to be waded through. No county has been so sadly ¿eeced of its honors as Derbyshire. Men whose homesteads are yet standing, whose memorabilia are so much of the nation's history, have had the orthography of their naines altered to make them Frenchmen, or are said to be natives of Lancashire, Cheshire, or N otts. And yet, forsooth, such reprehensible inaccuracy has been recapitulated again and again without exciting indignation or comment.We purpose, therefore, to set down something of the domestic lives of these men, of their memorabilia, and of the buildings they inhabited, and made famous by their chivalry and statesmanship, their genius and acumen. The pathetic interest of these buildings lies in their reception-rooms having been converted into sculleries, their drawing-rooms into dairies, their private chapels into cowsheds.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.