There is an exquisite pleasure in rescuing the memory of past days from the dust scattered over it by time, which none but those engaged in the pursuit can have an idea of.

Preface.

Clifton Camville, a manor filling up the most eastern angle of the county of Stafford, (the point of which has been commonly supposed to meet the western point of Leicestershire, in the centre of a cross, dug, anciently no doubt, in the turf of a small waste, call'd No-Man's Heath, but appears much more probably to be separated from the last county by an interval of about half a mile;) was held, according to Erdswic before the Conquest, by Earl Algar, and in the 20th of the Conqueror, by the King.

Art. I. History of Clifton Camville, Staffordshire.