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[A. J. Sullivan]

OF THE

PEERAGE AND THE PEASANTRY.

EDITED BY LADY DACRE.

SECOND EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1835.

STANFORD

LIBRARIES

PR 5497 S22. T3 1835

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

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THE authoress feels much diffidence in send

ing forth to the world a tale which by its title gives promise of treating not only of history, but of Scottish history; an act of presumption from which she is anxious to clear herself;-and at the same time she wishes to re-assure those readers who may not like historical novels from a woman's pen, that she has entered no farther into public affairs, than as they may have influenced the fortunes and feelings of the one admirable woman who forms the subject of the following memoir.

Since in the human heart the same passions

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