Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third Volume II Part 49

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BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY

#A Genealogical Dictionary#

OF THE WHOLE OF THE UNt.i.tLED ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND:

Comprising Particulars of 100,000 Individuals connected with them.

In 2 volumes, royal 8vo, including the Supplement, beautifully printed in double columns, comprising more matter than 30 ordinary volumes, price only 2l. 2s., elegantly bound,

WITH A SEPARATE INDEX, GRATIS.

CONTAINING REFERENCES TO THE NAMES OF EVERY PERSON MENTIONED.

The Landed Gentry of England are so closely connected with the stirring records of its eventful history, that some acquaintance with them is a matter of necessity with the legislator, the lawyer, the historical student, the speculator in politics, and the curious in topographical and antiquarian lore; and even the very spirit of ordinary curiosity will prompt to a desire to trace the origin and progress of those families whose influence pervades the towns and villages of our land.

This work furnishes such a ma.s.s of authentic information in regard to all the princ.i.p.al families in the kingdom as has never before been attempted to be brought together. It relates to the unt.i.tled families of rank, as the "Peerage and Baronetage" does to the t.i.tled, and forms, in fact, a peerage of the unt.i.tled aristocracy. It embraces the whole of the landed interest, and is indispensable to the library of every gentleman. The great cost attending the production of this National Work, the first of its kind, induces the publisher to hope that the heads of all families recorded in its pages will supply themselves with copies.

"A work of this kind is of a national value. Its utility is not merely temporary, but it will exist and be acknowledged as long as the families whose names and genealogies are recorded in it continue to form an integral portion of the English const.i.tution. As a correct record of descent, no family should be without it. The unt.i.tled aristocracy have in this great work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical history, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and baronetage. It will be an enduring and trustworthy record."--_Morning Post._

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DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN EVELYN, F.R.S.,

Author of "Sylva," &c.

A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL LETTERS NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.

UNIFORM WITH THE NEW EDITION OF PEPYS' DIARY.

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N.B.--Vols. III. and IV., containing "The Correspondence," may be had separately, to complete sets.

The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn has long been regarded as an invaluable record of opinions and events, as well as the most interesting exposition we possess of the manners, taste, learning, and religion of this country, during the latter half of the seventeenth century. The Diary comprises observations on the politics, literature, and science of his age, during his travels in France and Italy; his residence in England towards the latter part of the Protectorate, and his connexion with the Courts of Charles II and the two subsequent reigns, interspersed with a vast number of original anecdotes of the most celebrated persons of that period. To the Diary is subjoined the Correspondence of Evelyn with many of his distinguished contemporaries; also Original Letters from Sir Edward Nicholas, private secretary to King Charles I., during some important periods of that reign, with the King's answers; and numerous letters from Sir Edward Hyde (Lord Clarendon) to Sir Edward Nicholas, and to Sir Richard Brown, Amba.s.sador to France, during the exile of the British Court.

A New Edition of this interesting work having been long demanded, the greatest pains have been taken to render it as complete as possible, by a careful re-examination of the original Ma.n.u.script, and by ill.u.s.trating it with such annotations as will make the reader more conversant with the numerous subjects referred to by the Diarist.

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LIVES OF THE PRINCESSES OF ENGLAND.

By MRS EVERETT GREEN, EDITOR OF THE "LETTERS OF ROYAL AND ILl.u.s.tRIOUS LADIES."

4 vols., post 8vo, with Ill.u.s.trations, 10s. 6d. each, bound.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"A most agreeable book. The auth.o.r.ess, already favourably known to the learned world by her excellent collection of 'Letters of Royal and Ill.u.s.trious Ladies,' has executed her task with great skill and fidelity. Every page displays careful research and accuracy. There is a graceful combination of sound, historical erudition, with an air of romance and adventure that is highly pleasing, and renders the work at once an agreeable companion of the boudoir, and a valuable addition to the historical library. Mrs. Green has entered upon an untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The first two volumes (including the Lives of twenty-five Princesses) carry us from the daughters of the Conqueror to the family of Edward I.--a highly interesting period, replete with curious ill.u.s.trations of the genius and manners of the Middle Ages. Such works, from the truthfulness of their spirit, furnish a more lively picture of the times than even the graphic, though delusive, pencil of Scott and James."--_Britannia._

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"This work is a worthy companion to Miss Strickland's admirable 'Queens of England.' In one respect the subject-matter of these volumes is more interesting, because it is more diversified than that of the 'Queens of England.' That celebrated work, although its heroines were, for the most part, foreign Princesses, related almost entirely to the history of this country. The Princesses of England, on the contrary, are themselves English, but their lives are nearly all connected with foreign nations.

Their biographies, consequently, afford us a glimpse of the manners and customs of the chief European kingdoms, a circ.u.mstance which not only gives to the work the charm of variety, but which is likely to render it peculiarly useful to the general reader, as it links together by a.s.sociation the contemporaneous history of various nations. The histories are related with an earnest simplicity and copious explicitness. The reader is informed without being wearied, and alternately enlivened by some spirited description, or touched by some pathetic or tender episode. We cordially commend Mrs. Everett Green's production to general attention; it is (necessarily) as useful as history, and fully as entertaining as romance."--_Sun._

THE LIFE AND REIGN OF CHARLES I.

By I. DISRAELI.

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HON. B. DISRAELI, M.P.

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MEMOIRS OF HORACE WALPOLE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES,

INCLUDING NUMEROUS ORIGINAL LETTERS, FROM STRAWBERRY HILL.

EDITED BY ELIOT WARBURTON.

2 vols. 8vo, with Portraits, 16s. bound.

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MADAME PULSZKY'S MEMOIRS.

Comprising Full and Interesting Details of THE LATE EVENTS IN HUNGARY.

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THE DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE EARLS OF CLARENDON AND ROCHESTER;

Comprising important Particulars of the Revolution, &c.