St. Jamisis Lady. My Cops humble and 20 Jum faith of all Bruant Bingames From the original Picture in the Possession of the R Hon Lord Braybrook London T&W Boone Bond Street. OF SIR BENJAMIN RUDYERD, KNT. CONTAINING HIS SPEECHES AND POEMS; "Sir Benjamin Rudyerd was a man in great vogue in those days, a wit and poet, and the "One of the most eloquent men in that best age of English eloquence." SOUTHEY'S Book of the Church, p. 460. "Who so nobly defended the Bishops."--GRAINGER'S Biog. Dict. TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE LETTERS OF HIS GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON BENJAMIN RUDYERD, ESQ. CAPTAIN IN THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS AT THE BATTLE OF FONTENOY. EDITED BY JAMES ALEXANDER MANNING, OF THE INNER TEMPLE. LONDON: T. & W. BOONE, NEW BOND STREET. M.DCCC.XLI. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD VISCOUNT CANTERBURY, G.C.B. &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, I FEEL more than an ordinary degree of timidity in thus presuming, without your Lordship's sanction, to associate, even by an unprivileged dedication, your distinguished and venerated name with so trifling an example of research, coupled with such slight evidence of literary abilities as my humble portion of the accompanying pages presents to public criticism. The profound respect, however, which I, in common with the vast majority of my fellowcountrymen, entertain for your Lordship, in consideration, not only of your great constitutional learning and long and brilliant Parliamentary services, but the general acquirements and the unexampled urbanity of manner which have |