INCUMBENT OF ST. LEONARD’S.
Bridgnorth:
W. J. ROWLEY, BOOKSELLER, HIGH STREET.
LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.
MDCCCLVI.
BRIDGENORTH:
W. J. ROWLEY, PRINTER, HIGH STREET.
TO THE MAYOR, AND CORPORATION,
AND INHABITANTS,
OF THE
BOROUGH OF BRIDGNORTH,
THE
FOLLOWING WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
BY THEIR FAITHFUL SERVANT,
G. BELLETT.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The Substance of the following pages was given in two lectures, which I delivered last year to the Members of “The Society for Promoting Religious and Useful Knowledge.” Since then I have collected a few more facts relating to the early history of Bridgnorth, which I have here given to the reader, and I have also added an [Appendix], containing some matter not altogether, I hope, undeserving of attention, although some of it is only remotely connected with my subject. The public documents relating to the town, such as the Terms of Capitulation, and the Proclamation of Charles II., it has been thought desirable to give entire, as but few copies of them, especially of the latter, are extant.