Tales of our great families. 2d series

Edward Walford

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• Nobility
• Great Britain

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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VV.K HASKL
/TALES
OUR GREAT FAMILIES-
VOL. I.OUK GREAT FAMILIES.
EDWARD M.A.WALFORD,
AND LATE OF BALLIOL OXFORD.8CHOLAE COLL.,
ATTTHOB OF
"
THE COUNTY FAMILIES,"
Ac.&c.,
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.13,
1877.
All reserved.rights(LT
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PREFACE.
the title of Tales of our Great
I have ventured toUNDER Families," publish
of narratives to the familiesa series relating
and untitled of thisof the titled nobility
in the of readerscountry, hope amusing my
materials which for I havewith twenty years
from various and whichbeen sources,gleaning
have so in hands thatgrown rapidly my my only
seems to lie in amid such anselectingdifficulty
Iferribarras de richesses. it be not trueliterally
that whether or has itslow,house, highevery
" in the at all events theskeleton closet," past
isof most of our ancient houseshistory replete
with incidents howeverwhich, artlessly they may
make thebe willtold, certainly good adage
"
that truth is than fiction."stranger
In of these matters I wish ofby waytreating
readersto remark that must notpreface myVI PREFACE.
Ilook for I shall often, know,always novelty.
"be a thrice-told tale for in the anec-telling ;"
dotal Mrs.ofHorace Sirwritings Walpole, Delany,
Nathaniel the Hon.Wraxall, Grantley Berkeley,
Lord William the lateGronow, Lennox,Captain
Duke of and Dr. I have aBuckingham, Doran,
constant well from which to draw It
supplies.
will be to recast these mate-however,possible,
rials and those from other and totaken sources,
mould them all into one harmonious whole,
I not be found devoid ofwhich, trust, may
interest. I am on delicate and Itreading ground,
am conscious that here and there I woundmay
the tender of descendants and
susceptibilities
relatives of the whom Ipersonages may bring
the But to these I would thatupon stage. say
the lives of the members of our old historic
houses are themselves and that I have ahistoric,
of whatfull to wake theright up memory already
stands recorded them in theagainst gossiping
Wal-of Sir Nathaniel Wraxall or Horacepages
unless I have reason to believe that
pole,
I tell are untrue. If thesethe stories papers
shall have result the amusementany beyond
the leisure hours of those who take anof
"
interest in the fates and fortunes of our Great
I feel no doubt on theFamilies," that, whole,
will anthat influence not be of injurious