Excerpt from The Life of Marmaduke Rawdon of York: Or, Marmaduke Rawdon the Second of That Name The second ralph rawdon had several sons. The eldest was Laurence Rawdon of York, who flourished in that city as a respect able merchant in the reigns Of Queen Elizabeth and King James 1. One of the younger sons was Sir Marmaduke Rawdon, the brave and zealous royalist of the time of King Charles I., who became as deservedly famous as the Leeds historian represents his kinsman Sir George Rawdon to have been at the same period. 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.