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Excerpt from Life of Robert Fairfax of Steeton: Vice-Admiral, Alderman, and Member for York A. D. 1666-1725 In the muniment room of the Fairfax family at Newton Kyme there were several boxes in which had been buried, for many scores of years, the whole story of the life of a distinguished naval officer. There were also letters of his aunt, of his grandfather, and of more remote ancestors. Sir Wilham Fairfax of Steeton was a valiant champion of the Parliament, of whose prowess I have given some account in my life of the great Lord Fairfax. Mouldering in the old boxes there were five letters from Sir William to his wife in London, written during the Civil War. One was hastily scribbled off on a half sheet of an old letter, on the battle-field of Marston Moor. Another was from the leaguer before Liverpool, within a week of the writer's glorious death, when raising the siege of Montgomery Castle. There was a bundle of letters from his daughter Lady Lister to her mother, written from London during the Protectorate, which are curious. One of them mentions a ball at the French Ambassador's, and other gaieties, at a period when the vulgar belief is that all such frivolities were eschewed. 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.