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THE

WORKS

OF

LORD BYRON.

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ENGLISH, ITALIAN, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND GERMAN LIBRARY,
9, RUE DU COQ S1-HONORÉ.

OF THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD BYRON.

THE family of Byron is very ancient, and has attached its name to the most illustrious periods of our History. The fields of Cressy and Azincourt witnessed their heroism, and were bedewed with their blood; and long anterior to these periods they had marched in triumph over those plains, which their not less illustrious descendant has since delighted to tread, in defence of the religion of their forefathers, under the Lion-Hearted Richard, whose glory and whose sufferings they shared.

The present noble Lord, in his « Adieu to Newstead Abbey,» appears to have been in possession of historical facts relative to his ancestors, which are unknown to genealogists; we are far from supposing them as the fiction of the poet, but at the same time we consider it a duty, that the noble Lord owes to his ancestors and himself, to give those genealogical facts not only the importance, but the form, of history.

The family of Byron came from Normandy with William the Conqueror, who rewarded it with large possessions in the counties of York

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