CHAPTER XXIII.
The life of alderman Julian.
"I now revisited England, and was born at London.

My father was one of the magistrates of that city.

He had eleven children, of whom I was the eldest.

He had great success in trade, and grew extremely rich, but the largeness of his family rendered it impossible for him to leave me a fortune sufficient to live well on independent of business.

I was accordingly brought up to be a fishmonger, in which capacity I myself afterwards acquired very considerable wealth.
"The same disposition of mind which in princes is called ambition is in subjects named faction.