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I. the year 1809, I published, with the assistance of Mr Walter Scott, a work, in two volumes quarto, entitled "The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, Knight Banneret to which I prefixed an advertisement, informing the reader, that the original manuscripts, from a copy of which those volumes were printed, had been preserved at Tixall, in Staffordshire, the seat of Thomas Clifford, Esq. my eldest brother. That work has put the public in possession of many very curious, and interesting State Papers; and has rescued from partial obscurity, and restored to its just celebrity, the name of a man, who was one of the wisest, and bravest, one of the most active, and most able, among the many eminent characters in the reigns of Henry VIII. and of Queen Elizabeth. At the