Excerpt from Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquess of Bath, Preserved at Longleat, Wiltshire, Vol. 5: Talbot, Dudley and Devereux Papers, 1533-1659 Portland.1 This was followed in 1908 by a third volume, devoted to the papers of Matthew Prior preserved by his patron Lord Oxford. 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.