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It is, perhaps, quite unnecessary to inform our readers, thatS ir Charles Morell, which has so long appeared on the title-page of these Tales, was an assumed name. The real author wasM r. Mr. James Ridley, eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Gloucester Ridley, a clergyman of considerable eminence, and the author of a very elaborate life of his great ancestor, the celebrated martyr. Bishop Ridley. James Ridley was educated at Winchester, and New College, Oxford; and, after taking orders succeeded his father in the living of Rumford in IE ssex. In the year 17G1, while attending his duty as chaplain to a marching regiment at the siege of Belleisle, he laid the foundation of some disorders, from which, to the unspeakable grief of his family and friends, he never recovered, and which, some years after, being then happily married and preferred in the church, terminated his life in February 1765. He wrote theS chemer, a very humorous periodical paper, for theL ondon Chronicle, but afterwards collected into a volume and published. He was also the author of the History of James Lovegrove, Esq.: but the Tales now presented to the reader, is the work on which his fame principally rests ;and the many editions through which it has passed, sufficiently attests its popularity.
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