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WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
THE
FIRST DUKE AND DUCHESS
OF
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
BY THE AUTHOR OF
“A LIFE OF SIR KENELM DIGBY,” “THE LIFE OF A PRIG,” ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
1910
PREFACE
The compiler of these pages does not labour under the delusion that hehas written a book. All that he has attempted has been, as it were,to invite his reader to an arm-chair in his study, and to place in thereader’s hands a succession of open volumes and copies of manuscriptscontaining passages which throw more or less light upon the lives ofthe first Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. Occasionally he has venturedto make a few remarks, either of introduction or of retrospection,concerning the evidence thus brought before his guest, remarks whichmay easily be skipped at will.
This humble form of literary labour has the signal advantage that, ifit fails to attract the reader, it succeeds in affording an object forreading to the writer.
Much assistance has been most kindly given in this work by Mr. WalterHerries Pollock.
CONTENTS
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