Excerpt from The Earl of Rosebery, K. G: An Illustrated Biography Clerical Primroses, as so much less is known of them than Of the Earl's actual predecessors, whose history is in every peerage. Lord Rosebery has shown by his interest in the Hawick mortar that he himself takes great pride in his rela tives of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 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.