BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE ANTIQUITY, HONOUR AND ESTATE OF THE NAME AND FAMILY OF WAKE. WITH A SUMMARY DEDUCTION OF THE LINEAL SUCCESSION OF THE CHIEF BRANCHES OF IT, FROM ITS FIRST RISE, DOWN TO THIS PRESENT TIME. BY WILLIAM WAKE, D. D. RECTOR OF ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER; CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO WARMINSTER: PRINTED BY J. L. VARDY. MDCCCXXXIII. ΤΟ THE REV. HENRY WAKE, M. A. RECTOR OF OVER WALLOP, HANTS; VICAR OF MERE, WILTS; AND CHAPLAIN TO THE MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUESS OF WINCHESTER. MY DEAR SIR, I know not to whom I can with so much propriety address this Memoir of the Family of Wake, as to yourself, to whom I am indebted for the Manuscript; and trusting that you will find it a faithful Copy, I remain, my dear Sir, Your obliged Friend and Relation, ETHELDRED BENETT. Norton-House, 30th April, 1833. |