Excerpt from Beaumont Papers: Letters Relating to the Family of Beaumont, of Whitley, Yorkshire, From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries IT is not often that a connected series of family letters extend ing through two centuries can be met with. But When met with it can hardly happen but that the letters must belong to a family of good name and position, in whose ancestral house papers when once stored up met with little disturbance; and that, consequently, their contents Will be, in part at least, of more than mere personal interest, and will have some relation to national affairs, and con tribute somewhat to our stock of national history. 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.

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