Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ... Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson .. Lucy Hutchinson OF THE LIFE OF COLONEL HUTCHINSON, GOVERNOR OF NOTTINGHAM CASTLE AND TOWN, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM IN THE LONG PARLIAMENT, AND OF THE TOWN OF NOT- TINGHAM IN THE FIRST PARLIAMENT OF CHARLES II. ETC. WITH ORIGINAL ANECDOTES OF MANY OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES, AND 21 &ummacp Jftelmto of public affairs: WRITTEN BY HIS WIDOW LUCY, DAUGHTER OF SIR. ALLEN APSLEY, LIEUTENANT OF THE TOWER, ETC. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT By the Rev. JULIUS HUTCHINSON. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE LIFE OF MRS. HUTCHINSON, WRITTEN BY HERSELF," A FRAGMENT. VOL. I. FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. I He Editor of this work, after having seen two pretty large impressions of it in quarto, speedily absorbed by the public curiosity and taste, having received the applause and thanks of nearly all the most respectablea Reviewers, and been called upon by several of them to produce it in a form better suited to the convenience of the generality of readers, comes forward with pleasure, and even exultation, to comply with this demand, by the publication of an octavo edition. But it is hoped that a discerning public will perceive that his veneration for those who are the subjects of the history, and the liberality of that respectable house who are the publishers, have led them to study an elegant rather than a sordid ceconomy; fresh and highlyfinished embellishments andanew type being given. By both the editor and the publishers the point of interest has been considered as secondary to the satisfaction and credit of giving to the community, at a