LIVES OF NORTHERN WORTHIES. BY HARTLEY COLERIDGE. EDITED BY HIS BROTHER. A NEW EDITION, WITH THE CORRECTIONS OF THE AUTHOR, AND THE MARGINAL OBSERVATIONS OF S. T. COLERIDGE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. 1852. 13728 341 PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. THE circumstances under which the present work was produced have been briefly but sufficiently detailed in the Memoir of Hartley Coleridge's life, prefixed to the posthumous editions of his poems. It will be enough to state here, that in the year 1832, he entered into an engagement with a printer and publisher at Leeds to furnish matter for a provincial biography, to be entitled "The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire," the publication of which, at intervals of two months, proceeded so far as the third number, when it was brought to a premature termination. Each life being, however, complete in itself, and having an interest wholly independent of local objects and associations, the portion which had appeared, amounting to one-third of the whole, was republished in a closely printed octavo volume, of somewhat formidable dimensions, under the title |