The Compleat English Gentleman Edited for the First Time From the Authors Auto
The Compleat English Gentleman Edited for the First Time From the Authors Auto
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265 and are, being once levell'd with the meaner people, allvvays of the rank with them : I fay, whether they will pretend to this or not, I kno' not any more than I do whether they have any authourity for fuch pre- tenfions or no. But this is certain, whether thofe people will allow it or no, that thofe gentlemen are of the true blood of their reall anceftors ; ftill their having been merchants or factors or trades-men, whole-fale or retail, did not cut off the entail of blood any more, than i...t cut off the fir-names. Now fuppofe a merchant of the family and blood of the Ruffells, an antient and noble, now ducal, houfe, or a wholefale grocer of the name of Rowland or Crefner or Blacket, ancient families of the gentry : I fay, fuppofe a trades-man' born of thefe antient families comes, after a long courfe of trade, to accquire an eftate, and they leav off vafbly rich to the tune of i) 30 to 50 to 100, 000 in a man, and purchafe an eftate in proporcion to that fortune, and live in the country for an age or two ; it fhall be remembred hereafter, and the heralds fliall allow it, that this new family came from, or were of, the line of the antient houfe of Rowland or Crefner or Blacket, and the interval of time in which he, the new family, apply 'd to trade and got that eftate fliall be loft and forgotten : fo the man is a gentleman of an antient family with-out any referv, and is allow'd for /.
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