We have already exceeded the limits prescribed for our work, and must, we confess, rather reluctantly bring it to a conclusion, since the few leisure hours that have been devoted to its composition have been happily, and, as regards ourselves, we trust, usefully spent. From the stern critic we have nothing to hope; his happiness consists in exhibiting, as he conceives, his own superior talent by casting that of others however humble and unpretending-farther into the shade. We envy not his occupation—we fear not its results. We look confidently towards a band of kind friends-and we hope to find many such amongst our fellow townsmen-knowing that they will perceive the sterility of the subject which we have selected, and the disadvantages under which we have laboured; and that they will be induced generously to extend to us their indulgence and protection where we chiefly stand in need of them. There are associations connected with this work that will ever remain endeared to us, and when we hear the voice of disapprobation or contempt raised against us either in public or private-however defective this work may be pronounced as a literary composition-we shall console ourselves with the reflection that we have not, to our knowledge, yielded in one single instance to the false views of philosophy and impiety which are so prevalent in some publications of the present age; and we shall be cheered by the persuasion that our pages do not convey one sentiment that we should be anxious to disavow, or 'One line, which, dying, we would wish to blot.'

APPENDIX.

High-Sheriffs for the Counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, whose Residences were in Wisbech and the Neighbourhood, since 1st Henry VIII, 1509, to the year 1834 inclusive.

1523 Anthony Hansard, esq. 1678 T. Wiseman, esq.

1595 Robert Brudenell, esq. 1699 Richard Parlett Read,

Doddington

1604 SirJohnPeyton,bart.do. 1628 Thomas Parke, esq.

Wisbech

esq. Chatteris

1705 J.Walsham, esq. March 1708 John Jenyns, esq. Doddington

1631 Richard Colvile, esq. 1711 J. Taylor, esq. Wisbech

1754 Henry Southwell, esq. 1799 J. Westwood, esq. ditto

The Chief Bailiffs of the Isle of Ely, appointed by the Bishop of Ely, as Lord of the Franchise.

A.D.

1294 Robert de Scadeworth.

Roger Abynton.

1308 Ralph de Norwich.

1329 John Bosse.

1445 Roger Davy.

1459 John Ansty.

John Mesanger.

1468 William Curson.

William Michell.

Matthew Christian.

Jordan de Daventre.

1501 John Burgoyne.

1516 Edmund Wyngfield.

Thomas de Inglethorpe.

1546 Thomas Meggs.

Sir John Huddlestone.

1600 Thomas Heton, brother to Bishop Heton.

Thomas Edwards, Esq.

1661 William Wren, Esq., brother to Bishop Wren.

1698 Thomas Edwards, Jun.

1725 Charles Clarke, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn.

1726 Edward Parthericke, Esq.