Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Bray, in the County of Berks This work is intended to supply a want which almost every parishioner must have experienced - viz., that of an original and authentic history of the localities and institutions of his own immediate neighbourhood. It is but little more than a compilation, the author having preferred to bring together the scattered fragments of local history, and to pre sent them to the reader in their unvarnished and original form, rather than to add another volume to the host of cursory and superficial guide-books. 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.