Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693-1756 / 2008-07-25 00:00:00

EBOOK THE FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS ***


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[Transcriber's note: The spelling inconsistencies of the original have
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THE
_FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS_:
BEING THE
GENUINE HISTORY
OF
_Colonel_ M----RS, _and his Sister,_
_Madam_ DU P----Y, _the Issue of
the Hon_. CH----ES M----RS, _Son of the
late Duke of_ R---- L----D.
CONTAINING
Many wonderful ACCIDENTS that befel them in their TRAVELS, and
interspersed with the CHARACTERS and ADVENTURES of SEVERAL PERSONS of
_Condition_, in the most polite Courts of _Europe_.
_The Whole calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth
of both Sexes_.

_LONDON_:
M,DCC,XLIV.

THE
PREFACE.
_The many Fictions which have been lately imposed upon the World, under
the specious Titles of_ Secret Histories, Memoirs, &c. &c. _have given
but too much room to question the Veracity of every Thing that has the
least Tendency that way: We therefore think it highly necessary to
assure the Reader, that he will find nothing in the following Sheets,
but what has been collected from_ Original Letters, Private Memorandums,
_and the_ Accounts _we have been favoured with from the Mouths of
Persons too deeply concerned in many of the_ chief Transactions _not to
be perfectly acquainted with the Truth, and of too much Honour and
Integrity to put any false Colours upon it_.
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