Memoirs of Nathaniel, Lord Crewe (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Memoirs of Nathaniel, Lord Crewe These Memoirs are published from a quarto MS. which was bought by Lord Crewe's Trustees in the summer of 1891 for the library at Bamborough Castle. The author of 'An examination of the Life and Character of N.C. ... wherein the writings of his several biographers ... are critically reviewed and compared with a manuscript never before published containing curious anecdotes of that Prelate, ' published at London in 1790 (119 pages, 8vo), had access to a MS. closely resembling this but apparently not identical with it. With that exception, the matter now published appears to be as yet unprinted. The Memoirs add very little to the facts of Lord Crewe's life as set forth in ordinary biographical works, but they have the interest of being written from the point of view of an admirer, and are therefore in strong contrast to other biographies, which are uniformly depreciatory in tone. At the same time, the conception of a bishop's duties, by reference to which the writer praises his patron, is so widely different from our own, that it furnishes a pleasing example of unconscious but bitter satire. I have to thank Lord Crewe's Trustees for permission to transcribe the MS., and their Librarian, the Kev. H. F. Long, for his kind offices in the matter. 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.