A

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

OF

ENGLAND,

FROM

REVOLUTION TO THE END OF

GEORGE I's REIGN;

BEING A CONTINUATION OF

THE REV. J. GRANGER'S WORK:

CONSISTING OF

CTERS DISPOSED IN DIFFERENT CLASSES,
ADAPTED TO A METHODICAL CATALOGUE
NGRAVED BRITISH HEADS;

INTERSPERSED WITH A VARIETY OF

OTES, AND MEMOIRS OF A GREAT NUMBER
OF PERSONS,

Not to be found in any other Biographical Work.

ials being supplied by the Manuscripts left by Mr. GRANGER,
and the Collections of the Editor,

THE REV. MARK NOBLE,

F.A.S, of London and Edinburgh,

or of Barming, in Kent, and Domestic Chaplain
the Earl of Leicester.

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PREFACE.

E Proprietors of the late Mr. Granger's fcripts have at length the fatisfaction of tting to the candour of the public a Contion of his Biographical History of EngHad the author fortunately furvived to completed his design, and to have been ablisher of his own work, there can be ubt but it would have met the public eye Form every way more deserving of their ion, than that in which, from necessity, ow obliged to appear. The zeal of the al writer, in the pursuit of his object, is known; and the great success that he ith, in his first publication, encouraged to the latest hour of his life, to persevere s undertaking; and he consequently d no opportunity that offered, by himfriends, of collecting information and ng materials for continuing his His

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tory

tory from the Revolution to the happy æra
of his present Majesty's accession to the
throne. But though he had indeed formed
his plan, and made a sort of general arrange-
ment and disposition of the particular parts
of it, he had made but little progress in filling
up his outline, by embodying the names, and
affixing to them the several descriptions and
characters of the different
portraits are here recorded.

personages whose

for this eason

short of the duce the accour the end of the re Brunswick line.

After frequent P d consideration

To this deficiency it was owing that the publication has been so long delayed: from the very imperfect state in which these papers were Teft by the author, a mere state of preparation only for a very extensive work; it was long a matter of doubt, whether it would be more adviseable to suppress them entirely, or to endeavour to reduce them into order, to digest such materials as had been got together, to supply the deficiencies by collecting further information, and to take the sense of the public upon the Work, by publishing such a part of it only as might be supposed capable of creating a sficient interest in the Reader, without coing so close upon our own times, as to excite uneasy apprehensions or sensations in the minds of those whose families and near connections might be affected by the relation. It

was

ided to

go on w hed well to it we attending the du

the general en the conceptions ticular disadvan

ter who had b l in the talk e variety of his hich he had trea ks up to his n

ce

e and respect,

en

follows him in ce, and "non was really rote of it con a tion, and a ich it is muc

citate.

or this reason, therefore, determined to hort of the period first intended, and uce the account no lower at present than end of the reign of the first Monarch of inswick line.

r frequent pauses, therefore, and reconsideration, when it was at length to go on with the Work, those who well to it were not blind to the difficulending the due execution of it; as well he general embarrassment in writing up conceptions of another, as from the lar disadvantage of coming after a who had been universally allowed to n the task he had undertaken, both as ariety of his subject, and the manner in he had treated it. The Continuator p to his master with becoming diffind respect, fully sensible that though ws him indeed, it is at a great disand "non passibus aequis !" Mr. Granreally enamoured of his object: he f it con amore, and with a felicity of 1, and a conciseness of expression, it is much easier to admire than to