Excerpt from The Lives of All the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire: Descended From the Renowned Sir William Cavendish, One of the Privy Counsellors to King Henry VIII.; Illustrated With Reflections and Observations on the Most Striking Passages in Each Life Of this we cannot defire a fironger inftance, than the truly illullrious Family We have here undertaken to give an account of, which can vie with the nobleit in this Kingdom for antiquity; and, what is far more to their honour, can be paralleled by few, for thofe virtues which dignify human nature. 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.