Excerpt from William Penn: An Historical Biography, From New Sources; With an Extra Chapter on the "Macaulay Charges" I can say for myself that I have spared no trouble in the search for materials. Some years ago, a fortunate incident threw some of Penn's unpublished letters in my way; and the perusal of these first suggested the idea of attempting a new life. The sneers of Burnet, the falsehoods of Echard, the bold misinterpretations of Macintosh, remained on record unanswered; and as I compared Clarkson with the sources of the history -and particularly with the ms. Documents preserved in the State Paper Office and in the British Museum I saw that, had his work been as excellent in a literary point as it is otherwise, still another attempt would have been justifiable. Then came out, a little more than two years ago, the first part of Mr. Macaulay's History of England, in which these errors, assumptions and mistakes were again brought forward, and with more than their former emphasis. This decided me. I hastened my collection of materials and began to write. The original and unpublished documents to which I am chiefly indebted for information are comprised in the following list. 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.