at Windsor Castle, the MSS.

of the Duke of Beaufort, and the Lindsay MSS.
My thanks--though not, perhaps, the thanks of my readers--are especially due to that ripe scholar Mr.Hannaford Bennett, who suggested this work to me.

I am indebted to Mr.M.H.Spielmann and other friends and correspondents for information and suggestions.

Finally, I must acknowledge the valuable assistance of Mrs.E.Constance Monfrino in the preparation of this biography.
LEWIS MELVILLE.
_London, March, 1925_.
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