Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot, Vol. 1: A Life of the Duke and Duchess of Tyrconnel I fear that it may seem to readers of this book - to those at least, who persevere to the end - that its title is a misnomer, that it would more aptly have been named "Materials for a Life of Richard Talbot, Duke of Tyrconnel, with some Details about his second Wife." The original plan did not contemplate the unequal division of the space between Richard Talbot and Frances Jennings which has been made in the following pages. But some books insist, as it were, on writing themselves, of developing independently of preconceived schemes. That has been the case with Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot. I have yielded to the claims of the forceful husband to overshadow his wife, though aware that thereby the symmetry of the work has been impaired. Of Talbot it cannot be said, in the words of the early English translation of Rochefoucauld's Maxims: "Some Persons are so extreamly whiffling and inconsiderable, that they are as far from any real Faults, as they are from substantial Vertues." Talbot had abundance of real faults as well as some substantial virtues. I have in no way attempted to conceal the faults or to magnify unduly the virtues, but have tried to present the actual man, with the aid chiefly of his own writings and the estimates of his contemporaries. Few characters in English history have suffered more grievously from prejudice, and the only remedy appeared to me to get back to the documents of the period and examine in them the evidence for the charges brought against Talbot. 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.