THE

HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

OF THE PARISH OF

WIMBLEDON,

SURREY.

With Sketches of the Earlier Inhabitants.

BY

WILLIAM A. BARTLETT, M.A.

WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD; SENIOR CURATE OF WIMBLEDON.

Nosce Patriam et Mores;

Nosce Parentes; Nosce Teipsum.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.

WIMBLEDON :

J. & S. RICHARDS.

"E am sensible there be some who slight and despise this sort of learning, and represent it to be a dry, barren, monkish studie. E leave such to their dear enjoyments of ignorance and ease. But I dare assure any wise and sober man that Historical Antiquities, especially a search into the notices of our own nation, do deserve and will reward the pains of any English student: will make him understand the state of former ages, the constitution of governments, the fundamental reasons of equity and law, the rise and succession of doctrines and opinions, the original of ancient and the composition of modern tongues, the tenures of property, the maxims of policy, the rites of religion, the characters of virtue and vice, and indeed the nature of mankind. I wish the excellent parts of many other writers were not spent upon more frivolous arguments, when by subtleties, and cavils, and quibbles, they serve only to weaken Christianity, and (wbat otherwise were pardonable) to expose one another.”—Preface to KENNETT'S Parochial Antiquities.