Excerpt from The Lives and Portraits of Remarkable Characters, Vol. 1 of 2: Drawn From the Most Authentic Sources Tn: History of all countries presents us with individuals whose peculiarities or villanies have rendered them conspicuous in the age in which they flourished, who have been handed down from generation to generation, till in the eighteenth cen tury (an era in which literature has made considerable strides, ) we find all documents concerning such characters perused with the greatest avidity: so much so, indeed, that all former editions of this Work have been long out of print. 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.