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Excerpt from Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. 8 With all Lady Buchan's economy and good manage ment, the metropolis was found too expensive for the very slender finances of the family, and in the beginning of the year 1762 they removed to St. Andrew's, in the county of Fife, where house-rent was lower, and where they could entirely abstain from receiving company - the education being nothing inferior. Of Tom Erskine, at this period of his life, I can speak from undoubted authority; for he was in the same class with my own father, and with George Hill, afterwards Principal of St. Mary's College, my preceptor, both of whom I have frequently heard talk of him. They described him as of quick parts and retentive memory, rather idly inclined, but capable of great application - full of fun and frolic - and ever the favorite of his master and his play mates. There is extant a very interesting letter, written by him while a school-boy here, to his eldest brother, Lord Cardross, who had been left behind with a relation at Edinburgh. 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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• Full title: Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. 8 (Classic Repr
• Author: John Campbell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536
• EAN: 9781333480738
• ISBN: 1333480733
• ID: 14256740
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 710 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. September 2016

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