Excerpt from Memorials to Serve for a History of the Parish of St. Mary, Rotherhithe: In the Country of Surrey and in the Administrative County of London No such History has ever yet been written, although naturally the great Histories of London devote some space to the Parishes which lie outside the limits of the Cities of London and Westminster. Every Rector of an ancient English Parish owes a debt to his Parish to preserve its memorials from being forgotten, and I hereby endeavour to discharge my debt to Rotherhithe. I could not have discharged it in any satisfactory degree, had I not availed myself of the help of many friends, which I hereby gratefully acknowledge. Besides drawing on the ordinary sources of information which are open to all in the great Histories of the County of Surrey and of London, I have invoked the kind assistance of many friends whose personal recollections of by-gone days are incorporated in the following pages; and of these I now gratefully mention, first and foremost, my old Cambridge friend, Dr Bonney, whose chapter on the Geology of the Thames Valley is a most valuable contribution to the pre-historic era of our ancient Parish; next the Reverend Prebendary Wm. Hutchinson, Vicar of Blurton, near stoke-on-trent, who was from 1836 to 1850 the friend and colleague of the Reverend Edward Blick, when he began his great work of Church-building and School-building in Rotherhithe; Mr F. C. Carr-gomm, who has kindly placed at my disposal his interesting volumes on the Manor of Rotherhithe, and on the earlier years of the life of field-marshal Sir Wm. Maynard Gomm, the Reverend Dr Atkinson, Master of Clare College, for valuable extracts from the College records; and Mr Hector Munro Chadwick, Fellow of Clare, for revising the anglo-saxon derivation of the name Rother hithe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.