In the preparation of this second edition of "The Forest of Arden, its Towns, Villages, and Hamlets," no change has been made in the Text of 1863. Additions to it, however, will be found, comprising illustrative historical matter, together with notices of new churches, restorations of old ones, the names of present incumbents, and the populations according to the recent census.
The reader is reminded that he will find explanatory descriptions of the initial letters, at the head of each chapter in the text, and in the List of Engravings. To the generation which has grown up since the first edition was published, the author now commits this re-issue of a work which has long been out of print, hoping that it may obtain as favourable a reception as the volume which preceded it.
