Excerpt from Percy: Prelate and Poet The importance of the 'reliques being then so great, it is certainly remarkable that no authoritative Life of their compiler has before now been given to the world, and Miss Alice Gaussen has earned the thanks of the public in supplying this want, and in bringing to bear upon the illustration of her subject a mass of material, of which the Colchester Papers and those of the Meade family are hitherto unpublished. 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.