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Helen Mulgrave : or, Jesuit executorship : being passages in the life of a seceder from Romanism : an autobiography
As an autobiographer is expected to say something of his birth, parentage, and education, I will begin my narrative with some particulars of mine, in the relation of which I shall endea vor to be brief.
My father and mother, who were Irish, were both Roman Catholics by hereditary descent ; their families, for several gene rations, having been born in the Romish church.
My father, who inherited from his ancestors an ancient baron etcy, had two brothers. At the time of the opening of this nar rative, the elder of the two was a barrister residing in London, where he had married an English Protestant heiress. The younger was a bishop in the Roman Catholic church, living in the neighbourhood of Cork.
My mother, the only daughter of an old Irish family, of high descent, but of little hereditary property, had two brothers, who early in life had become adventurers for fame and fortune on the continent. Each had distinguished himself in his career; the one as a soldier, the other as a civilian. The elder of the two, the Baron de Wallenstein, resided in Vienna, and held high office under the Austrian government. The younger, the Count
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