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Proud Preston -- or Priests' Town, as it was originally called from the number of its religious houses -- merited the epithet applied to it, albeit somewhat derisively.
Proud were its inhabitants -- proud of their town -- of its fine situation, its beauty, its salubrity -- proud of their wives and daughters, whom they deemed, and not erroneously, the handsomest women in the kingdom.