Excerpt from The Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works of Lord Byron: With a Comprehensive Outline of the Life of the Poet, Collected From the Latest and Most Reliable Sources Clarendon, indeed. Informs us, that on the morning before the battle, Falkland, very cheerful, as always upon action, put himself into the first rank of the Lord B s regiment. This slightly antedates his title. 0 first battle of Newbury was fought on Sep tember, 1643. For his services there, and at a previous royal victory, over Waller in July, Sir John was, on October 24th of the same year, created Baron of Roch dale, and so became the first Peer of the family.' 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.