Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn

vi PREFACE
to his suggestions and encouragement. To our correspondence, which I have preserved
complete, and to the detailed notes of searches, letters, etc., which will also be bound up in
volumes, I must refer any one coming after me who desires to scrutinize the grounds of my own
conclusions, or to prosecute new inquiries.
If will readily be understood that in an undertaking of this nature, where, through incom-
pleteness of public records and lack of really old family papers, many facts, dates, alliances, and
the movements, occupations, etc., of individuals, had to be patiently sought out and connected
into a consistent whole, conjecture and inference must, within reasonable bounds, be admitted,
and some questions must remain insoluble. I can only hope that the account which I have
done my best to present may not be devoid of interest to those for whom it is intended, and
may prove to be fairly reliable.
I must, in conclusion, beg the kind indulgence of my readers for whatever errors and defects
they may discover, as well as for misprints, which I fear may have escaped my eye.
Theodore Cracraft Hope.
Christmas igo2.