CONTENTS. 31 315 Section VII.-A Digression in Praise of Digressions 326 371 One thousand copies of this Edition have been printed and the type distributed. No more will be published. PREFATORY MEMOIR ΤΟ STERNE. LAURENCE STERNE was one of those few authors whol have anticipated the labours of the biographer, and left to the world what they desired should be known of their family and their life. "Roger Sterne * (says this narrative), grandson to Archbishop Sterne, Lieutenant in Handaside's regi * Mr. Sterne was descended from a family of that name in Suffolk, one of which settled in Nottinghamshire. The following genealogy is extracted from Thoresby's Ducatus Leodinensis (p. 215) : : Mary, daughter and heiress of Roger Jaques, of Elvington, near York. 15 Elizabeth. 16 Frances. A |