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EPISODES IN THE DOMESTIC ANNALS

OF

THE ARISTOCRACY.

BY

J. BERNARD BURKE, ESQ.,

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AUTHOR OF

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PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE," THE LANDED GENTRY,"

แ ANECDOTES OF THE ARISTOCRACY," &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,

SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET,

1853.

ст

775.B95 1853 V.2

LONDON:

M. S. MYERS, PRINTER,

22, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

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FAMILY ROMANCE.

VICISSITUDES OF GREAT FAMILIES.

As highest hilles with tempests be most touched,
And tops of trees most subject unto winde
And as great towers with stones strongly couched,
Have heavy falls when they be undermynde,
E'en so by proofe in worldly thinges we finde,
That such as clime the top of high degree,
From perill of falling never can be free.

IT has been well observed that Fortune never appears in a more extravagant humour than when she reduces monarchs to mendicants, or debases the descendants of nobles into hewers of wood and drawers of water. In a former work we told of the decadence of many a royal line,-of the withering of many a proud stem; and instanced how one co-heir of our Plantagenet kings was, at the very

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