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Excerpt from The History of Greece, Vol. 1: Properly So Called Anne, obtained a cornet's commission in Col. Joseph de Salander's regiment of dragoons, and after the peace of Utrecht, resuming his original profession, fettled in Dublin for the remainder of his life. This gentleman was naturalized in 1712, took a doctor's degree in medicine, and is said to have had good success in his beefiness. He married a lady of Bourdeaux, Elizabeth Grenoilleau, a very near relation of the celebrated Baron de Montefqpieu. It deserves to be remembered here, to the honour of the French nation in general, as well as of that part of it in particular which adopted the reformed religion, that property was considered there as a thing so sacred and unalienable, notwith-standing the flrongefl prejudices of education, that more than half a century after the retreat of Dr. Gast's family from France, his right to an inheritance which then devolved to him was acknowledged, and a sum not much short of 1000l. was transmitted to him from his relations at Bourdeaux, through the hands of his warm friend and admirer, the late Alderman George Sutton. 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.