Excerpt from Memoirs I had laid the manuscript by, till I had time to quite for get what I had written, when I unexpectedly received a pro posal to write my memoirs. I then read over my work, and determined to let it go, as it was. It seemed to me that, with all its faults, it fulfilled the requisition of Montaigne in being ung Ziere de bonne foye. So it has gone forth into print. Jacm est alea. 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.