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Excerpt from The Bloody Assizes, or a Compleat History of the Life of George Lord Jefferies, From His Birth to This Present Time: Wherein, Among Other Things, Is Given a True Account of His Unheard of Cruelties, and Barbarous Proceedings, in His Whole Western Circuit <p>I hope your Lordship will pardon this present Address, seeing 'tis a Priviledge we modern Authors hold by prescription, to put any great Body's Name in the front of our Book: Princes have not been able to exempt themselves or their Families from the persecution of Dedications nor ever was there (i humbly conceive) any Rule made in your Lordships Court to forbid them. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.