Ebook History of the Welles Family in England and Normandy

"And the Lord said unto Moses, write this for a memorial in a book" - Exodus xvii. 14.

Inquire I pray thee of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers" - Job viii. 8.

"Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask thy fathers and they will show thee, thy elders, and they will tell thee." - Deuteronomy xxxii. 7.

"Aye, thus it is! One generation comes,
Another goes and mingles with the dust.
And thus we come and go, and come and go –
Each for a little moment filling up
Some little space. And thus we disappear
In quick succession. And it shall be so
'Till time in one vast perpetuity
Be swallowed up."

"Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
"Which he commanded our fathers they should make them known to their children.
"That the generations to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children." - Psalm lxxviii. 3, 5 and 6.

"Quos omnis Deus Omnipotens prouni geniti filii sui.
Ac salvatoris nostri meritis, vita acterna dignetur."