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Excerpt from The Life and Speeches of the Marquis of Salisbury, K. G, Vol. 1 of 2
The family of Cecil claims as its founder a certain Robert Sitsilt, who distinguished him self in the Welsh wars of the reign of William Rufus, and received grants of land in Hereford shire in reward for his services. A younger branch of this family is found at alater period settled at or near Stamford, and David Cyssell of Stamford held certain local offices of cousi derable importance during Henry vii.'s reign, was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, and thrice alderman of his native town. He obtained for his eldest son, Richard, a place at Court as one of the royal pages, in which capacity he was present at the famous Field of the B2 Life and Spear/26's of Lord Salisbury. 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.
