TALES

22106

OF

OUR GREAT FAMILIES.

BY

EDWARD WALFORD, M.A.

AND LATE SCHOLAR OF BALLIOL COLL., OXFORD.

HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1877.

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TALES

OF

OUR GREAT FAMILIES.

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LORD LYTTELTON'S GHOST.

MONG the many well-authenticated tales of

supernatural events-or at any rate of events that cannot be explained by any merely natural laws-is one which for nearly a century has been current in the noble house of Lyttelton, being handed down with great minuteness "from sire to son," and referred to by Sir Walter Scott, Boswell, and Hugh Miller, as well as by other writers. It relates to the sudden end of Thontas, second Lord Lyttelton, which happened at a house at Epsom in Surrey-then a fashionable town on the 27th of November, 1779, when his lordship was only six-and-thirty years of age.

VOL. II.

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