. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. e was perhapsthirty or thirty-five years of age, he went to England, and there in some of the lessertheatres played the leading parts in the plays of Shakespeare. His performancesamused the people and brought down on him the satire and humor of LondonPunch. He returned to Boston not many years before the war and made himselfconspicuous by his libel suits against parties who dared to express doubts of his titleand pretensions. He claimed that the rank of count had been regularly conferred onhim in England, and he wore the badges of his rank.
. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. e was perhapsthirty or thirty-five years of age, he went to England, and there in some of the lessertheatres played the leading parts in the plays of Shakespeare. His performancesamused the people and brought down on him the satire and humor of LondonPunch. He returned to Boston not many years before the war and made himselfconspicuous by his libel suits against parties who dared to express doubts of his titleand pretensions. He claimed that the rank of count had been regularly conferred onhim in England, and he wore the badges of his rank. For several years he was theterror of the newspapers and the courts, and besides managing the many suits inwhich he was the plaintiff, he acted in others as a special attorney, never having beenadmitted to the bar. In a suit brought against William L. Burt for a libel containedin an address to the jury in a case in which the count was the plaintiff, the libel con-sisting of the declaration that he was insane, he described himself in the declaration.
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