Excerpt from The History of a Banbury Cake: An Entertaining Book for Children I' was born, br made (whichever you please, my little reader), at Ban bury, 1n the county of Oxford, as you may plainly conceive by my title, where great numbers of Cakes are brought into being daily and from whence they travel by coach, Chaise, aggen, cart, horse, and foot, into all parts of this kingdom nay, and beyond the seas, as I heard my maker declare that he had, more than once sent some of them into France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.