Johnson here expresses his genuine admiration for Savage's writings (produced under conditions of great material hardship) and his sympathy for those conditions. He accepts Savage's claim that he was the illegitimate son of a noblewoman...
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2 April 1698
Anne (Mason), Countess of Macclesfield
, was divorced by Act of Parliament; this was the first civil divorce (not first passed by an ecclesiastical court).
