The Herald and genealogist . had any complicity in thefraud. The presumption is that they had not. Profoundly ignorant of history andgenealogy, and only interested in the latter in so far as it could be made to ministerto their foolish vanity, a superabundance of this latter quality has probably led themto be eyed as promising subjects by one of these genealogical impostors who live onthe folly and credulity of the public ; and, having once fallen into the hands of thecharlatan, they yield as implicit a faith in his fables as does the unhappy patient tothe nostrums of the quack doctor. As Mr.
The Herald and genealogist . had any complicity in thefraud. The presumption is that they had not. Profoundly ignorant of history andgenealogy, and only interested in the latter in so far as it could be made to ministerto their foolish vanity, a superabundance of this latter quality has probably led themto be eyed as promising subjects by one of these genealogical impostors who live onthe folly and credulity of the public ; and, having once fallen into the hands of thecharlatan, they yield as implicit a faith in his fables as does the unhappy patient tothe nostrums of the quack doctor. As Mr. Coltheart exposed the medical charlatansof his day, and set in a true light their pernicious and destructive practice, withsome reasons why it ought to be entirely abolished, so have I thought it a duty,humbly following in the wake of that eminent surgeon, to unmask those quackswho deal, not in pills and potions, but in pedigrees, and whom a large portion of thecommunity seem unable to distinguish from bondjide THE HOUSE OF SOMERSET: IN THE DAYS OF EDWARD LORD HERBERT, EARL OFGLAMORGAN, AND MARQUESS OF WORCESTER. The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the second Marquis of Worces-ter. To which is added, a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with aCommentary thereon. By Henry Dircks, Esq. Civil Engineer, &c. &c. London:Bernard Quaritch, 15, Piccadilly. 1865. 8vo. pp. xxiv. 624, The house of Somerset, descended in the direct male line from ourmedifeval kings, though with two illegitimate links in the chain, hasmaintained its dignity and high station throughout a duration of timethat has been seldom surpassed. In the long line of eighteen genera-tions, extending from King Edward the Third to the present Duke ofBeaufort, the subject of the book before us occupies the tenth. Helived in very perilous times : and by his profusion and temerity broughtthe fortunes of the House of Somerset to the very brink of ruin,though happily not past recovery. Very little
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