Part 1 — PREFATORY NOTE.
Reading edition
For the materials of the earlier of the ‘Lives’ contained in this volume I have been chiefly indebted to the Collection of State Papers at the Rolls House; to the Privy-Council Registers at the Council Office; and to many manuscripts in the Cottonian, Harleian, Sloane, and Lansdowne Collections at the British Museum.
Highgate; 6th May, 1870.
The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Isaiah, xxxii, 8.
Man’s only relics are his benefits;
These, be there ages, be there worlds, between,
Retain him in communion with his kind.
Landor (Count Julian).
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