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Full text of ' THE HISTORY OF BANDOK GEORGE BENNETT, ESQ., B.A. The pleasant Bandon crowned with many a wood.' COKE: HENRY AND COGHLAN, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, 35 & 36, GEORGE'S STREET. ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

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PKEFACE, SOME writers seem to think they should epitomize their entire works in their preface; others seem to think they ought to strip themselves of every good quality and attribute they possess, in order to approach, in all humbleness and humility, the great public; whilst others are meaner still they mortify themselves, and absolutely do penance for sins they never committed, in order to induce that many-headed tyrant to throw them a kind word. Our design in writing the fol- lowing pages was to bring together various materials belonging to, and connected with, the rise and progress of Bandon from its earliest infancy, without heeding whether the narration of a fact exposed the faults or offended the prejudices of any person or of any party. Accordingly, we set to work. Our first intention was to produce a mere compilation one in which the scissors should perform the duty of the pen; but, as we advanced with our task, we found it impossible to adhere closely to that arrangement.

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Amongst other reasons, there is many an incident or a circumstance, which, without any reference to the cause which produced it, or the subject with which it was identified, would be totally unintelligible, and consequently inappreciable by the reader. 2061056 IV PREFACE. There is no subject read by so many different lights as history. The blood-thirsty tyrant in one man's eyes, is but a strong-minded prince in those of another. The policy which induced the king of a neighboring state to decoy tens of thousands of his most industrious subjects to his capital, and then murder them in cold blood, was as vehemently applauded by one class of readers as it was as vehemently abhorred by another.

Ages, also, like individuals, often read the same fact differently. When Charles I. Outraged every liberty and every feeling of his people, indignant England, no longer able to withstand his treachery and his tyranny, struck off that insincere monarch's head. The monarchists of that age absolutely recorded an invocation in our prayer- book, in which they commended 'his meekness, patience, and great charity,' and implored the Almighty, 'that our land may be freed from the vengeance of his righteous blood; ' yet there is no monarchist in this age has even ventured to reprehend the good sense which swept this absurdity from our devotions.

It is the same on the all-important subject of religion. Opinions still vary as widely on points of doctrine, and even in the interpretation of the divine commands, as they did formerly on the subject of passive obedience, the divine right of kings, and similar theories long since passed away. Even that church herself, which glories in her infallibility, and long before she was rent with schism, pronounced that to be orthodox in ono century which she denounced as heterodox in another. Y rouM multiply iu-taiin-.I tin- kind it' then- was any: l>ut there is none. It i- our privilege to diflVr. People differed since the world began, and, in all probability, will to the end of time.

Why, then, should we stigmatize or censure one another because we cannot think politically or theologically alike? As well might we find fault with a man for the height of his stature, or the color of his hair. In a work such as ours, the subject of which has been hitherto untouched by the pen, we have had a great deal of up-hill work to accomplish. We have been obliged to dig the foundations, quarry the stone, and, with the same rough hands, endeavor to fashion the superstructure. We have walked into untrodden by-paths, where each passing generation laid its stratum of history upon the ground unheeded. We have conversed with old people many of them so old, that their faculties had almost preceded them to the tomb; and it required no little ingenuity on our part to coax them back into life.

We have examined scarcely legible manuscripts, searched through dusty folios, and sought for intelligence in every quarter and from every person from whom it was likely to be procured. As the historic informa- tion in published works is so scanty, and as the manuscript and traditionary matter is so voluminous and inviting, we were glad to avail ourselves of the great assistance of the latter. We are aware that traditionary evidence is sometimes of a questionable character; and we should be sorry to.be so unbounded in our admiration of it as to admit it into our pages merely because it was tradition. Indeed, some of the old stories that have reached us are so improbable, that their very preservation is a proof of the simplicity of the human mind in their day, which AVC do not often find in our owiu VI PREFACE. Others come to us so incrusted with the crispy lichens of time, that we prize them for their antiquity, but nothing more.