Excerpt from Knole and the SackvillesThe following sketches of Knole and its owners lay no claim to he either exhaustive or elahorate. I have no erudition, I have only personal familiarity. I hope, therefore, that they may he accepted as fugitive impressions rather than examined as a scholarly contrihution either to history, art, or literature, and that such inaccuracies as may inadvertently have slipped in may not he too severely condemned.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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