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Excerpt from The Life of James, Duke of Ormond, Vol. 1
2 These volumes containing only a series of letters and papers to the end of 1651, and some in the beginning of the following year, it was necessary to seek for other materials to enable me to give an account of the latter part of the duke of Ormond's Life, which I had undertaken to write. I was persuaded that his grace, who had preserved his papers with so much care and method from the time of his first entry upon public business, when it was perhaps dangerous as well as difficult to keep them.
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