Excerpt from The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the Stuarts, Vol. 1: Beginning With the Seventeenth Century, Being the Period of Settling the United States; With Numerous Engravings Of the twenty-seven states Which now form this confederacy, thirteen were originally peopled from Great Britam As the English language is spoken all over 1t, it must be highly use ful for the public to know the social condition of that people at the period of its first settlement. Those Who did not emi grate hom those islands Will find information which they can not otherwise obtain, and thereby an insig ht into the habits and manners of the English nation, which at present they appear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.