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...AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT! Compiled by the publisher. NEW YORK: M. YOUNG, PUBLISHER, 173 GREENWICH STREET. ACT IV. A C... ...elieve the existence of a Devil is a like debt to reason; one is a demonstration from the reality of visible causes, and the other a deduction from t... ... like reality of their effects. One demonstration of the existence of God is from the universal well-guided consent of all nations to worship and... ...t is evil bears his footprints, and as each succeeding generation appears, some new phase of the Devil‘s cunning hand looms up to our sight. As man ... ...ms, that the Creator of heaven and earth had adopted this nation for his chosen people, and therefore demanded their exclusive homage, and that they... ... which she called Prick-ear, Jack and Frog. Several witnesses, poor and ignorant people, were brought to testify to the mischief which had been done ... ...he now assumed as a legal profession. He proceeded in a regular circuit through Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdon, accompanied by Joh... ... the females in search of their marks. In August 1645, we find them at Bury, in Suffolk, where, on the 27th of that month, no less than eighteen wi... ...rgyman named Lowes, who had been vicar of Brandeston, near Framlingham, in that county fifty years, a well known opponent of the new church governme...

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...urn being equal to high risk to the side. What I’m about to tell you could turn the way you think about investing upside down. Are you open-minded to new ways of thinking? Are you ready to step out of the box? Ever think about how banks and insurance companies invest their money? Ever think about how much money they make on your savings or insurance premiums? We all know ...

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...onic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the author. ISBN 0-7596-7159-1 This book is printed on ... ...ts This book would never have been written but for the fortuitous referral of a new client for whom I did some consulting and marketing work. A rem... ...rs who encouraged me to stop investing my talents, skills and intellect in other people and start investing them in myself. Also for being wise eno... ... that will make your journey through the materials go more smoothly. A message from the Author........................................................ ...................................................111 Included here is a State and County Directory with an indication of whether the States are Lien ... ..., they invest that money so as to earn more than they are paying you. What most people don’t know is that, for decades, banks, insurance companies ... ..., you will want to give up. The material may seem overwhelming and the various County employees less than helpful. The process of sorting through t... ...s, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester Michigan: Tax Deed State 83 Counties Alcona... ...and, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Schuyler, Senecca, St. Lawrence, Steuben, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Way...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electron... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ..., arrived, with a commission to be governor general of New England and New York. The king had given such powers to Sir Edmund Andros that there was no... ...he people inhabiting the country now comprised within the limits of King’s County, was as follows:— “To the inhabitants of the District of Grand Pre, ... ...Custom House stood at a little distance down King Street, nearly where the Suffolk Bank now stands, and a sentinel was continually pacing before its f...

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...Excerpt: SUFFOLK. As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings o...

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...ORK:) EDWARD and RICHARD: his sons DUKE OF SOMERSET : (SOMERSET:) DUKE OF SUFFOLK : (SUFFOLK:) DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM : (BUCKINGHAM:) LORD CLIFFORD :... ... Master, and Master’s Mate. WALTER WHITMORE : Two Gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk. (First Gentleman:) (Second Gentleman:) JOHN HUME : (HUME:) and ... ...h; but her grace in speech, Her words y clad with wisdom’s majesty, Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys; Such is the fulness of my heart’s co... ...ere the thirtieth of May next ensuing. Item, that the duchy of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released and delivered to the king her father’— ... ..., And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York, We here discharge your grace from being regent I’ the parts of France, till term of eighteen months Be... ...ll the land. What! did my brother Henry spend his youth, His valor, coin and people, in the wars? Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter’s col... ...we will keep it, if we can; But now it is impossible we should: Suffolk, the new made duke that rules the roast, Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Mai... ...g words Bewitch your hearts; be wise and circumspect. What though the common people favor him, Calling him ‘Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester,’ Cl... ...shmen: To Ireland will you lead a band of men, Collected choicely, from each county some, And try your hap against the Irishmen? YORK: I will, my lor...

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...imus -- Scoena Prima -- Flourish of Trumpets: Then Hoboyes. Enter King, Duke Humfrey, Salisbury, Warwicke, and Beau-ford on the one side. The Queene, Suffolke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, on the other. Suffolke. As by your high Imperiall Majesty, I had in charge at my depart for France, As Procurator to your Excellence, To marry Princes Margaret for your Grace; So in ...

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...ry, Warwicke, and Beau-ford 4 on the one side. 5 The Queene, Suffolke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, 6 on the other. 7 ... ...olke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, 6 on the other. 7 Suffolke. 8 As by your high Imperiall Maiesty, 9 I had in cha... ...t Folio 40 Her words yclad with wisedomes Maiesty, 41 Makes me from Wondring, fall to Weeping ioyes, 42 Such is the Fulnesse of my h... ...eth of May next ensuing. 56 Item, That the Dutchy of Aniou, and the County of Main, 57 shall be released and deliuered to the King her fa... ...hee with the Sword. Cosin of Yorke, 71 We heere discharge your Grace from being Regent 72 I’th parts of France, till terme of eighteene Mo... ...of Henry the Sixt Shakespeare: First Folio 86 His valour, coine, and people in the warres? 87 Did he so often lodge in open field: 88 ... ...e can: 115 But now it is impossible we should. 116 Suffolke, the new made Duke that rules the rost, 117 Hath giuen the Dutchy of Aniou... ...itch your hearts, be wise and circumspect. 165 What though the common people fauour him, 166 Calling him, Humfrey the good Duke of Gloster,... ...tate, 263 Till Henrie surfetting in ioyes of loue, 264 With his new Bride, & Englands deere bought Queen, 265 And Humfrey with the Pe...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...he other hand, it may be said that the town- ship was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union. In New Eng... ...tary of the province; and that the justices of the peace for the county of Suffolk should be commissioned to require bail of the said James Franklin f...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully ... ...- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc.… TO ... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ... Gamble tele- graphed me, asking that the assessments outside of St. Louis County might be suspended, as they already have been within it, and this mo... ...ev. John M. Robinson, of Colum- bia, Missouri; James L. Matthews, of Boone County, Mis- souri; and James L. Stephens, also of Boone County, Mis- souri... ...AL PECK. W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., June 25, 1863. GENERAL PECK, Suffolk, V a.: Colonel Derrom, of the Twenty-fifth New Jersey V olunteers, ...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could accoun...

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...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ...evealed. But how shall this be conveyed and made palpable? In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers,... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...himself to be se- duced by their charms, endeavors to banish them from the county of Middlesex. But the truth is, that, however objec- tionable per se... ...t:) the answer was, with roars of laughter, from the under- sheriff of our county— “Non est inventus.” T oad-in-the-hole laughed outrageously at this:... ...ittle time before. About the year 1740, Pope complains to a friend of Lady Suffolk’s dining so late as four. Young people may bear those things, he ob... ...s; but as to himself, now turned of fifty, if such doings went on, if Lady Suffolk would adopt such strange hours, he must really ab- sent himself fro...

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...(KING HENRY VIII:) CARDINAL WOLSEY: CARDINAL CAMPEIUS: CAPUCIUS: Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V CRANMER: Archbishop of Canterbury. DUKE OF NO... ...y. DUKE OF NORFOLK : (NORFOLK:) DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM : (BUCKINGHAM:) DUKE OF SUFFOLK : (SUFFOLK:) EARL OF SURREY : (SURREY:) Lord Chamberlain: (Cha... ...nd Cardinal of York. BUCKINGHAM: The devil speed him! no man’s pie is freed From his ambitious finger. What had he To do in these fierce vanities? I ... ... from hell? the devil is a niggard, Or has given all before, and he begins A new hell in himself. BUCKINGHAM: Why the devil, Hen... ...crying ‘Room for the Queen!’ Enter QUEEN KATHARINE, ushered by NORFOLK, and SUFFOLK: she kneels. KING HENRY VIII riseth from his state, takes her up,... ...icious censurers; which ever, As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new trimm’d, but benefit no further Than vainly longing. What we oft do b... ...h we leave it with a root, thus hack’d, The air will drink the sap. To every county Where this is question’d send our letters, with Free pardon to eac... ...all as merry As, first, good company, good wine, good welcome, Can make good people. O, my lord, you’re tardy: [Enter Chamberlain, SANDS, and LOVELL .... ...im; halberds on each side: accompanied with LOVELL, VAUX, SANDS, and common people .] Second Gentleman : Let’s stand close, and behold him. Henry VI...

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...e is slain, they’ll quickly fly. KING HENRY VI : Far be the thought of this from Henry’s heart, To make a shambles of the parliament house! Cousin of... ...And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget That we are those which chased you from the field And slew your fathers, and with colors spread March’d thro... ...ERLAND: Thou art deceived: ’tis not thy southern power, Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent, Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud, Can s... ...I hear, You, that are king, though he do wear the crown, Have caused him, by new act of parliament, To blot out me, and put his own son in. CLIFFORD: ... ...h commixture melts. Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York, The common people swarm like summer flies; And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?... ...l us, all our hope is done: Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help; Our people and our peers are both misled, Our treasures seized, our soldiers ... ...nd them on our coast And force the tyrant from his seat by war. ’Tis not his new made bride shall succor him: And as for Clarence, as my letters tell ... ...old in war; Those will I muster up: and thou, son Clarence, Shalt stir up in Suffolk, Norfolk, and in Kent, The knights and gentlemen to come with the... ...lingness rids way; And, as we march, our strength will be augmented In every county as we go along. Strike up the drum; cry ‘Courage!’ and away. [Exeu...

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...ry in the popular tales of all countries, so that it is probable that Apuleius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are the most familiar forms of the tale, and it seemed to me one of those legends of su...

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...ius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every countr... ...eeing Psyche’s charms, became enamoured of her, and re- solved to save her from his mother and make her his own. He therefore caused Zephyr to transpo... ...manor houses which their wealthy owners were fast desert- ing in favour of new specimens of classical architecture as 7 Yo n g e understood by Louis ... ...Beyond, rose dimly the spires and towers of a cathedral town, one of those county capitals to which the provincial magnates were wont to resort during... ...ho had been put out to nurse had no more manners than the calves and pigs. People were the more flattering to us because they expected soon to see my ... ...et’s disgusted gesture, “I beg your par- don, but I did not know you had a new he. Oh! surely you are not thinking of the young baronet?” “I am sure i... ...ced, after which the walk was continued to the farm-house, where the young people were made very welcome. Farmers were, as a rule, more rustic than th... ... only sure it is for her good!” “Why, child, there’s scarce a wench in the county who would not go down on her knees for such a chance. See what Madam... ... cried both auditors. “Oh yes! you know my Lady is very thick with my Lady Suffolk, and she persuaded the King to speak to him at the levee. ‘Comment’...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...ecause Boadicea, a British queen, the widow of the King of the Norfolk and Suffolk people, resisted the plundering of her property by the Romans who w... ...ace, after this, for sev enty years. A Child’s Histroy of England 16 Then new enemies arose. They were the Sax ons, a fierce, sea faring people from... ...r Norfolk people, established them selves in one place; the Southfolk, or Suffolk people, established themselves in another; and gradually seven king... ...sword, four thousand of the rebels are supposed to have fallen in that one county. In Norfolk (where the rising was more against the enclosure of open... ... Queen. This was discovered in time by Gardiner; but in Kent, the old bold county, the people rose in their old bold way. Sir Thomas Wyat , a man of ...

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... mother was Edith or Editha T urner, daughter of William T urner, Esq., of York. Mr Carruthers, in his excellent Life of the Poet, mentions that there... ...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ... in his studies, and when his verses did not please him, sent him back to “new turn” them, saying, “These are not good rhymes.” His prin- cipal favour... ...re known or heard of—(MacFlecknoe, the Re- hearsal, &c.)—were mercy to the new tempest of havoc which burst from the brain of this remorseless poet. A... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ...gue. Against the thief th’ attorney loud inveighs, For whose ten pound the county twenty pays. The thief damns judges, and the knaves of state; And dy... ...ing lean); Pudding, that might have pleased a dean; Cheese, such as men in Suffolk make, But wish’d it Stilton, for his sake; Yet, to his guest though...

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...d blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Sa... ...ied to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of hors... ...too eager to accuse him. 6 Grisly Grisell “He took a bar of iron from the forge, so please you, my lord, and put it to the barrel of powder.... ...ined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the... ...f truckling to the enemy. Jack Cade’s rising and the murder of the Duke of Suffolk had been the outcome of this feeling. 10 Grisly Grisell I... ...eing likewise a very holy woman. The Earl and Countess would accompany the new bishop to be present at his enthronement and the ensuing banquet, and t... ... and then the chapter of nuns intended to proceed to the election of their new Abbess, unanimously agreeing that she should be their present Prioress,... ...with it. We will show the young recre- ant how promises are kept in Durham County.” He dragged rather than led his daughter to the door, and lifted he... ...each of the Duke’s domains, glittering back and front in the tabard of his county’s armorial bearings, and with its banner borne beside him. Then a di...

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...olutely without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who ar... ...jority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...ounds. Like all men engaged in trade, he suffered some anxieties. He was a new beginner; but, already, bad debts had alarmed him; and bills were com- ... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...uit- ted the direct line of route; for their object was Ayrshire, of which county they were natives; and the regular road would have led them through ... ...ed him. 6 ‘Revolt of Islam,’ canto xii. 7 See his bitter letters to Lady Suffolk. 54 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater THE THE THE THE THE TR... ...27 Thomas de Quincey like limpets. They soon engrafted themselves into the county of Kildare; from which, by means of a fortunate marriage, they leape... ...tain lady Di. le Fl., whom once I knew, a Howard by birth, of the house of Suffolk, told me as her reason for omitting the Le, that it caused her too ...

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... the Quarterly Review, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author’s information. Afterwards they were published in the Prefac... ...principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated... ... to a princely estate, and to extended political connexions as head of the county interest in the shire where it lay. But 12 Waverley this was a cons... ... a court, had for some time been gradually reconciling them- selves to the new dynasty. But the wealthy country gentle- men of England, a rank which r... ...w and foolish fashion is introduced to break the natural dependence of the people upon their landlords.’ Sir Everard had done his best to correct this... ...isaffected, and, showed little hospitality to the military guests; and the people of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits, were not such a... ...R FATHER MISS BRADWARDINE was but seventeen; yet, at the last races of the county town of —, upon her health being proposed among a round of beauties,... ... fast as you can; there will speedily be unexpected guests on the coast of Suffolk, or my news from France has deceived me.’ [The sanguine Jacobites, ... ... fools has been disused in England. Swift writes an epitaph on the Earl of Suffolk’s fool,— ‘Whose name was Dickie Pearce.’ In Scotland the custom sub...

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...Y 7, 1842. ............................................................................................................................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................................................................... 19 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. .........................................................

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....................................... .......................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ................................................. ............................................ .................... 125 SPEECH: NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1863. .................................................... ...of his enthusiasm, and kindled at his example. But ev ery word which fell from his lips, and every demonstration of sympathy and approbation with whi... ...d together in inseparable connexion, and that I had never known them apart from you. Speeches: Literary and Social 7 It is a difficult thing for a ma... ...out a thrill of gratitude and pleasure. I shall love while I have life her people, her hills, and her houses, and even the very stones of her streets.... ...—to ap peal as a stranger to your generosity and kindness as the fre est people on the earth—I could, putting some restraint upon myself, stand amon... ...ard servants waylaid us at every turn, like so many human man traps; where county mem bers, framed and glazed, were eternally presenting that peti t... ...nting that peti tion which, somehow or other, had made their glory in the county, although nothing else had ever come of it. Where the books in the w... ...o myself my strong belief that the neighbourhoods of T rafalgar Square, or Suffolk Street, rightly understood, are quite as important to the welfare o...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...M. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ...unting rapidly; from the cynosure of a parish, he had become the talk of a county; once the bard of rural courtships, he was now about to appear as a ... ...re actually to withdraw from this copartner- ship, and be locked up in the county gaol therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For ... ... very doubtful authenticity, or worse. 154 Robert Louis Stevenson unhappy Suffolk, who received fourteen shillings and fourpence a day for his expens... ...oner and his gaoler: a fact of considerable interest when we remember that Suffolk’s wife was the granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.* Apart f...

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...e of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebiu...

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...ot trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the... ...rom writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Is... ...bout with me an inward wound, and I was indignant, that the name of my own people, formerly fa- mous and distinguished, should sink into oblivion, and... ..., bishop of Bangor, A.D. 755, who first adopted in the Cambrian church the new cycle for regulating Easter. 4 History of the Britons the labour thus ... ...h year of Edmund, king of the Angles. *And forty, according to Stevenson’s new edition. The rest of this chronology is much contracted in several of t... ...istory of the Britons, edited by Mark the anchorite, a holy bishop of that people. 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Ro- man co... ....R. “The stone of Titulus, thought to be Stone in Kent, or Larger-stone in Suffolk. * Rapin says he was buried at Lincoln; Geoffrey, at London. 26 Hi... ...he, of the Saxon race, was the first king in Bernicia, and in Cair Ebrauc (York). When Gratian Aequantius was consul at rome, because then the whole w... ...St. Patrick. 1 King of Connaught. 2 A mountain in the west of Connaught, county of Mayo, now called Croagh-Patrick. 32 History of the Britons of on...

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... of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To pri... ...tal supply of water, and it was first on the spot. Bang went the pumps—the people cheered—the beadle perspired pro- fusely; but it was unfortunately d... ...nusual solemnity. Innumerable were the calls made by prudent mammas on our new curate, and innumerable the invitations with which he was assailed, and... ...ont row of the gallery could not be pro- cured for love or money; and some people even went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had a... ...draw. I may as well get board, lodgin’, and washin’, till then, out of the county, as pay for it myself; consequently here goes!’ So, without more ado... ...came to our knowl- edge thus: We went over the House of Correction for the county of Middlesex shortly after, to witness the opera- tion of the silent... ...c ceremony of nodding and sipping gone through)— ‘Tottle, were you ever in Suffolk?’ inquired the master of the house, who was burning to tell one of ... ... clause, ‘but I’ve been in Devonshire. ’ ‘Ah!’ replied Gabriel, ‘it was in Suffolk that a rather singular circumstance happened to me many years ago. ...

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...esar. The sol diers he led to battle were very strong, and con- quered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had ... ...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...le way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in t... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...me one going off as a Sea-King, with all his friends, and trying to gain a new home in some fresh country. One great party of Northmen under a very ta... ... this time, were able to get between them and the city. The people of each county were desired to state their grievances; the king engaged to do what ... ... and that of their 58 Young Folk’s History of England friend, the Earl of Suffolk, in marrying Margaret of Anjou— the daughter of a French prince, wh... ... put down; and, almost at the same time, the queen’s first English friend, Suffolk, was exiled by her enemies, and taken at sea and murdered by some s... ... general election—by the men who have a certain amount of property in each county and large town. There must be a fresh election, or choosing again ev...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...enching, and on the 7th he sent out his cavalry from 384 Personal Memoirs Suffolk to cut the Weldon Railroad. He also sent out detach- ments to destr... ...othold, and a force of three thou- sand cavalry, under General Kautz, from Suffolk, to operate against the road south of Petersburg and Richmond. On t...

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...hope you will find your house at Mentone nice. I have been obliged to stop from writing by the want of a pen, but now I have one, so I will con- tinue... ...se of justice forbids the receipt of less – than half-a- crown. – Greeting from, Sir, your most affectionate and needy son, R. STEVENSON. Letter: TO M... ...t is about half-way down this shore – no, six-sevenths way down – that the new breakwater extends athwart the bay. Certainly Wick in itself possesses ... ...enness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway b... ...ny drunk men, and a double supply of po- lice. I saw them sent for by some people and enter an inn, in a pretty good hurry: what it was for I do not k... ...873-JULY 1875 Letter: TO MRS. THOMAS STEVENSON COCKFIELD RECTORY, SUDBURY, SUFFOLK, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1873. MY DEAR MOTHER, – I am too happy to be muc... ...cs and the aims of one’s life. I told him how I had found the peasantry in Suffolk, and added that their state had made me feel quite pained and down-... ...ul in peace, and continue to possess my body on any terms. CALISTOGA, NAPA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA All which is a fortnight old and not much to the point n... ...onceive the kingdom of the Muses mildlier mannered; and in particular that county which you administer and which I seem to see as a half-suburban land...

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...o not know that the Duchess or the Duke had enjoyed it much; but the young people had seen something of foreign courts and much of foreign scenery, an... ...s with a full determination to create for himself an occupa- tion out of a new kind of life. He had studied Dante, and had striven to arouse himself t... ...ed much among the trumpets, and yet they longed to return. He told himself from day to day, that though he had been banished from the House of Commons... ... dead. Had the heavens fallen and mixed themselves with the earth, had the people of London risen in rebellion with French ideas of equality, had the ... ...rt to him. But now it was as though all outside appliances were taken away from him. There was no one of whom he could ask a question. For it may be s... ...; and now she seemed 18 The Duke’s Children naturally to expect that this new ally should look at this great question as her mother had looked at it.... ...ent man, he lived at home as a country gentleman, and thus was able in his county to hold his head as high as richer men. But Frank Tregear was only h... ...he has got a title, nor yet because he owns half a 26 The Duke’s Children county. But men have their ideas and feelings about it. My father is a rich... ...tridges on the first of September. I always manage that. Popplecourt is in Suffolk, and I don’t think any man in England can beat me for partridges. ’...