History of Magherafelt (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of Magherafelt<br><br>About the year 1615 the Salters'' Co. Sent over an agent and workmen to commence building a Manor House and Bawn and other preliminary works for planting their estate with settlers.<br><br>To ensure that the County might not in future be peopled wholly with Irish the Irish Society (which was the parent Society) re solved to send out twelve boys from Christ''s Hospital together with other poor to be apprenticed and the settlers were precluded from taking Irish apprentices.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.