THE GLORY AND SHAME OF ENGLAND. BY C. EDWARDS LESTER. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1841. TO THE REV. JOEL TYLER HEADLY. WHAT I have here written, my dear Headly, I inscribe to you: would it were more worthy of being dedicated to one of my early-one of my best friends. But I am persuaded you will generously overlook its faults, as you have my own. In a treacherous world, you have never deceived me. In my reverses of fortune I have ever been cheered by your sympathy; in my prosperity you have ever rejoiced. Since first we met on the peaceful shores of Oneida, we have gone forth to mingle with the world-to be deceived by its flattery and wounded by its selfishness; to struggle with its stormy passions, and meet its stern realities. How often, amid the duties of a profession |