1673, ISBN: 9780217347761

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE EDITOR' PREFACE. JM ICHOLAS HOWE, the author of the Tragedies of Jane Shore and Lady Jane Gray, -was born at Little Berk ford, in Bedfordshire, at the house of Jasper Edwards, Esq. his Mother's Father, in the year 1673. His family had for many ages made a handsome figure in the county of Devon, and was known by the name of Rowes of Lambertoun, or Lamerton, who had been distinguished for their valour in the Holy Wars. They lived in the enjoyment of the innocent pleasures of a country life by the frugal management of a private fortune. His father, John Rowe, M'as the first who quitted his paternal acres to follow a profession. He was entered a student of the Middle Temple, where, after some time, he was called to the Bar, and at length made a Serjeant at Law. He stood fair for the first vacancy on the Bench, when he died the 30th of April, 1692. Nicholas was first sent to a private school at Highgate, .end was afterwards removed to Westminster, under the famous Dr. Busby, where he made so great a progress, that about the age of twelve years he was chosen one of the king's scholars. His father designing him for his own profession, entered him a student of the Middle Temple when he was about 16 years of age, where, for some time, he read Statutes and Reports with proficiency proportionate to the force of ris mind, which was already such that he endeavoured to comprehend law, not as a series of precedents, or collection of positive precepts,but as a system of rational government, and impartial justice. He had the advantage of the friendship and protection of Sir George Treby, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who was very fond of him, and had it both in his power and inclination to promote his interest. But, being left to his own direction, by the death of his father, a...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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