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Excerpt from An History of England, in a Series of Letters From a Nobleman to His Son, Vol. 1I shall not ms: St upon a principal uée to which some apply the English history, I mean that of making 1t the topic of common conversanon, yet, even from such a motive, though in itself tri¿ing, no wfiell bi ed man can plead 1gnorance. Its greatest advantage, however, is that a know-fi 1 ledge of the past enables the attentive mind to understand thep resent: our laws and customs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.