OF SOME DISTINGUISHED PERSONS, CHIEFLY OF THE PRESENT AND TWO PRECEDING ADORNED WITH SCULPTURES. THE SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, 1795. то HIS GRACE THE DUKE of BEAUFORT, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, HESE little Volumes are infcribed to TH Your GRACE, in gratitude for your having permitted the COMPILER to decorate them with an Engraving of CARDINAL ALBERONI, from your Portrait of that extraordinary man at Badminton. The fe Thefe Volumes have perhaps fome claim to the notice of YOUR GRACE, as they will fhew that the virtues which you prac you tife upon principle, feem to be hereditary in your illustrious family; and that it appears to be as characteristic of a SOMERSET to love his King and to ferve his Country, as it is for him to be royally defcended and fplendidly endowed. |