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THE

Famous HISTORY of the

CHAP. I.

An Account of his Birth, Education, and early Valour.

N times past there was born in the famous county of Chester, a youth of excellent beauty, promising a youth of fine things in his infancy; to promote which, the parents being wealthy, spared no pains to educate him in the best manner the country afforded, nor did he, as he grew in years fail in any part of their expectations. He took much delight in learning, but nothing so much