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p. iiiEDITOR’S INTRODUCTION Henry Mackenzie, the son of an Edinburgh physician, was born in August, 1745.  After education in the University of Edinburgh he went to London in 1765, at the age of twenty, for law studies, returned to Edinburgh, and became Crown Attorney in the Scottish Court of Exchequer.  When Mackenzie was in London, Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy” was in course of publication.  The first two volumes had appeared in 1759, and the ninth appeared in 1767, followed in 1768, th