Excerpt from The History of Retford, in the County of Nottingham: Comprising Its Ancient, Progressive, and Modern State, With an Historical and Topographical Account of the Villages of West Retford, Babworth, Ordsall, Grove, and Clarborough It is to myself matter of as great regret, asit can polssibly be to fany of my readers, that 'the task 1has' not'fallen to some one i Older in practice; abler than myself. 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.