The king's mother : memoir of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby

Domvile Margaret Lady B. 1840

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THE KING'S MOTHER. * MARGARET, COUNTESS OF RICHMOND. FROM ORIGINAL IN GALI ERV.NATIONAL PORTRAIT Messrs. H'alker & Rontall.By permission of THE KING'S MOTHER. MEMOIR OF MARGARET BEAUFORT, COUNTESS OF RICHMOND AND DERBY. BY LADY MARGARET DOMVILE. LONDON: BURNS & LIMITED.OATES, 1899. W.BURNS AND PRINTERS, LONDON,GATES, LTD., PREFACE. "SOME readers of Dr. Newman's Apologia pro vita sua" remember afterthat,may recounting the circumstances under which the series of Lives of the Saints was himEnglish by pro- and then the writer onjected, dropped, goes " to that is of thehe ofsay glad opportunity what would otherwise be thepreserving lost, of Saints I which beformed,Catalogue may useful to others." In this Dr. Newman tells us that he in-list, cluded "a few oreminent, persons, who,holy not in the Sacred arethough Catalogue, yet recommended to our their religious memory by theor benefits havefame, learning, by they conferred on these have been distin-posterity ; from the theirSaints namesguished by printing in italics." Their whole number is but fourteen, and the woman's name so honoured is thatonly of Richmond.the Countess of Of this the and connectedlady, only complete that has been is onepublishedbiography yet written Miss Caroline to whoseHalsted,*by * out Messrs. Smith and Elder inBrought by 1839. PREFACE. ' ofon the the Directorsessay subjectprevious Commemoration had awarded theirthe Gresham com-annual As the successfulpremium.

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THE KING'S MOTHER.
*MARGARET, COUNTESS OF RICHMOND.
FROM ORIGINAL IN GALI ERV.NATIONAL PORTRAIT
Messrs. H'alker & Rontall.By permission ofTHE
KING'S MOTHER.
MEMOIR OF MARGARET BEAUFORT,
COUNTESS OF RICHMOND AND DERBY.
BY
LADY MARGARET DOMVILE.
LONDON: BURNS & LIMITED.OATES,
1899.W.BURNS AND PRINTERS, LONDON,GATES, LTD.,