THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF EDWARD GIBBON. 101 CHAPTER 1.* Throughout these autobiographies the portions hitherto unpublished are inserted in [ ]. lIy family is originally derived from the County of Kent,! whose inhabitants have maintained from the earliest antiquity 2 a provincial character of civility, courage, and freedom. The southern district of the country, which borders on Sussex and the sea, was formerly overspread with the great forest Anderida,3 and even now retains the denomination of the }VealLl, or VV oodland. In this district, and in the hundred and parish of Rolvenden, the Gibbons were possessed of lands in the year one thousand three hundred and twenty-six; and the elder 1 Cambden in Kent, masterly work-style and spirit pictoresque-LatinEclition-original text-my Eclition, 1607. 2 From CoosaI', ,Vill. of llalm. John Sarisb.-provincial marks lost-progress of Society-isle of Sky supeTior to Old Kent. a Anc1erida - Cambden filllls that N ewenden-sea hasTable of Contents...

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