An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . Law is a Bottomless Pit. CHAPTER I. The Occasion of the Lawsuit,. Need not tell you the great quarrels thathave happened in our neighbourhood, since thedeath of the late Lord Strutt [the late King ofSpain, Charles 11., who died in 1700J, how theParson [Cardinal Portocarrero] and a cun-ning Attorney got him to settle his estate upon hiscousin Philip Baboon [the Duke of ANyou,afterwards PHILIP V.], to the great disappoint-ment of his cousin, Esquire South [the Archduke Charles],Some stick not to say, that the Parson and the Attorn
An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . Law is a Bottomless Pit. CHAPTER I. The Occasion of the Lawsuit,. Need not tell you the great quarrels thathave happened in our neighbourhood, since thedeath of the late Lord Strutt [the late King ofSpain, Charles 11., who died in 1700J, how theParson [Cardinal Portocarrero] and a cun-ning Attorney got him to settle his estate upon hiscousin Philip Baboon [the Duke of ANyou,afterwards PHILIP V.], to the great disappoint-ment of his cousin, Esquire South [the Archduke Charles],Some stick not to say, that the Parson and the Attorney forgeda Will, for which they were well paid by the Family of theBaboons [the House of Bourbon], Let that be as it will, itis matter of fact, that the honour and estate have continuedever since in the person of Philip Baboon. You know that the Lord Strutts have, for many years, beenpossessed of a very great landed estate, well conditioned,wooded, watered; with coal, salt, tin, copper, iron, &c., allwithin themselves: that it has been the misfortune of theFamily, to be the property of their stewards, tradesmen, andinferi
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