Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Agatha Beaufort, Vol. 1: Or, Family Pride
To this day the county is rich in spacious, curious old mansions, constructed with those quaint contri vances, to combine comfort with magnificence, which distinguish the domestic architecture of the'marian and Elizabethan periods. Most of these venerable mansions have been handed down in direct suc cession to their present owners, from ancestors who mingled in the busy scenes of feudal pomp and splendour; many of whom, likewise, found a glorious death, fighting bravely for church, state, or king, in one or other of the bloody feuds which, at divers periods of our history, converted the length and breadth of this fair realm into one huge battle-field. 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.
