Excerpt from Letters on the Study and Use of History: On Exile; The Spirit of Patriotism; Idea of a Patriot King; State of Parties in 1714
Henry st. John, viscount bolingbroke, was the only son of Sir Henry St. John, of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, by Mary Rich, third daughter of the Earl of Warwick.
Henry was born at Battersea, the Surrey suburb of London, Oct. 1, 1678, and was brought up by his grandmother, under care of Daniel Burgess, a celebrated Puritan preacher.
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