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Excerpt from Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners
The personal history of the au thor is altogether unknown. A Dedication, however, to mart loving and ever refpectz'fve kind uncle, Mr Matbew Mainwaring q/'namptwicb, in Cbeubirej' sug gests the county of which we may reasonably presume Mynshul to have been a native, and this again affords a clue for ascertaining the family from which, in all proba bility, he must have been descend ed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.