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THE MARGRAVE OF BRANDEBOURG, ANSPACH,-
AND BAREITH.

WRITTEN IN THE YEAR M DCC LXXXVI.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATER-NOSTER Row.

M DCC LXXXIX.

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TO HIS SERENE HIGHNESS

THE MARGRAVE OF BRANDEBOURG, ANSPACH, AND BAREITH.

USTOM has long given a Preface to

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every book that has been published-It is likewise accompanied with a Dedication. I have always thought the last made the first unnecessary— Indeed both may be dispensed with, if an author does not think his ftile requires an apology for offering to the Public a work, which his humility or juftice may lead him to think fit only to put his readers to fleep. -The greatest part of the

public has my permission to doze over the following fheets, as I expofe them to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends; who, knowing I had taken a long and extraordinary journey, have defired me to give them fome account of it-The best I could give, and in the most agreeable manner to myself, was by transcribing part of my letters to you-in which, though in a cursory manner, I have given you a faithful picture of what I have feen- Befide curiofity, my friends will in thefe Letters fee at least for fome time where the real Lady Craven has been, and where fhe is to be found-it having been a practice for fome years paft, for a Birmingham coin of myself to pass in most of the inns in France, Switzerland, and England, for the wife of my husband-My arms and coronet fometimes fupporting, in fome measure, this infolent deception;

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