Gents Mag 1848 part 1 p.618

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1848 part 1 p.618 MR. URBAN, WE were sorry for the sake of truth, - we grieved on account of the violence done to archaeological science, - as, in your number for April last, we silently perused a most inflated letter of fine writing descriptive of Brougham Hall, so called, in the county of Westmoreland, the estate of Lord Brougham. This letter purports to come from the pen of a Mr. George Shaw, St. Chad's Upper Mill, Saddleworth, who, it appears, had been on a visit to Brougham Hall, and who seems to have taken upon himself the office of sponsor, not only for the description of external objects which he pretends he did see there, but also for other wonderful revelations of family antiquity which he did not see, and which never had existence, save and except in the fertile
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