Desiderata Curiosa Or A Collection Of Divers Scarce And Curious Pieces Relating Chiefly To Matters Of English History PDF Download

Excerpt from Desiderata Curiosa, or a Collection of Divers, Scarce and Curious Pieces Relating Chiefly to Matters of English History, Vol. 1: Consisting of Choice Tracts, Memoirs, Letters, Wills, Epitaphs, &C., Transcribed, Many of Them, From the Originals Themselves, and the Rest From Divers Antient Ms. Copies, or the Ms. Collections of Sundry Famous Antiquaries and Other Eminent Persons In this Vol'ume the firi't book contains the life of Sir William Cecil, L'ord Burgh Icy. The ms. Whereof (being lent me by a friend 111 the country) when I came to copy it, was, I found, wrote as it were on heaps, almoft all the paragraphs 85 many of the periods being vailly long 81: ruir into one another for wherever there was a break it twas feldom made 111 the bef't place. So that the whole, if printed m the manner it flood in the ms. Would look rather like a rhapfody than a methodical difcour'fe. 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.