SECOND SERIES.

THE

CHELTENHAM MAIL BAG:

OR

Letters from Gloucestershire.

EDITED BY

PETER QUINCE, THE YOUNGER.

A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call
forth your actors by the scroll: Masters, spread yourselves.

Find them out whose names are written here? It is written, that the shoemaker
should meddle with his yard, and the tailor with his last; the fisher with his pencil,
and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to find those persons whose names are
here writ; and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ. I must
to the learned.-Shakespeare.

London:

PUBLISHED BY W. SIMPKIN & R. MARSHALL,

STATIONERS' HALL COURT.

1826.

W. M'DOWALL, PRINTER, PEMBERTON-ROW, GOUGH-SQUARE.

PREFACE.

SUCH a length of time has elapsed-six long years by the mark!-since my name first appeared in print, that I am afraid my Cheltenham friends have almost forgotten me; although I am now about to prove I have not forgotten them, by redeeming the pledge which accompanied the publication of the mysterious MAIL-BAG, in the year 1820, and giving to the world a few more extracts from the valuable MSS. that I became possessed of, by the singular chance to which I then alluded; and which I have only deferred, lest I should be suspected of a desire to trespass upon the attention of a liberal and enlightened public, whose favourable consideration I have duly to acknowledge, &c. &c. &c.