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CELEBRATED
CLAIMANTS
FROM
PERKIN WARBECK TO ARTHUR ORTON.


_SECOND EDITION._

London:
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY.
1874.




PREFACE.

This book is intended much less to gratify a temporary curiosity than
to fill an empty page in our literature. In our own and in other
countries Claimants have been by no means rare. Wandering heirs to
great possessions have not unfrequently concealed themselves for many
years until their friends have forgotten them, and have suddenly and
inopportunely reappeared to demand restitution of their rights; and
unscrupulous rogues have very often advanced pretensions to titles and
estates which did not appertain to them, in the hope that they would
be able to deceive the rightful possessors and the legal tribunals.
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