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afterwards ancestor Anne appointed army Baron Baronet Bart born brother Castle Charles Cholmondeley Clive Colonel Countess Coventry created Custos Rotulorum daughter and coheir daughter and heiress daughter of John daughter of Sir daughter of William David descended died unmarried dignity Duke of Norfolk dying without issue Earl Marshal Earl of Cassillis Earl of Denbigh Earl of Powis Earl of Surrey Earl of Sutherland earldom Edward eldest daughter Elizabeth England espoused estates father Fortescue Frances George grandson Grey Howard Ireland James King King's Knight Lady Lord Clive Lord Lieutenant Lordship died Lordship married March Margaret marriage Mary noble nobleman Northumberland parliament peerage peerage of Ireland Percy present Earl Privy Queen regiment reign Richard Right Honourable Robert Rodney royal Scotland second daughter second Earl secondly Sir Henry Sir John Sir Thomas Sir William sister sons Stafford succeeded successor Surrey Sutherland third Earl Thynne Viscount Viscount Stormont wife
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Page 66 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Page 129 - They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.
Page 153 - HE who in impious times undaunted stood, And 'midst rebellion durst be just and good Whose arms asserted, and whose sufferings more Confirm'd the cause for which he fought before, Rests here, rewarded by an heavenly prince ; For what his earthly could not recompense, Pray, reader, that such times no more appear : Or, if they happen, learn true honour here.
Page 106 - My defence will be made at that bar, and before I sit down I have one request to make to the House, that when they come to decide upon my honour, they will not forget their own.
Page 90 - ... compelled to yield to worse conditions than were now offered to him. He conferred with so much freedom with one of the king's commissioners, and spent so much time with him in the vacant hours, there having been formerly a great friendship between them, that he drew some jealousy upon himself from some of his companions. With him he lamented his own condition, and acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction ; and protested, that he would most willingly redeem...
Page 105 - That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign Princes, do of right belong to the State.
Page 36 - It was proposed to lay an imposition upon playhouses: the courtiers objected, that the players were the king's servants, and a part of his pleasure.
Page 17 - to enable his majesty to appoint commissioners, with sufficient powers to treat, consult, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of the colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America.
Page 77 - Which Knights of the Bath were first dubbed Knights Batchelors, being knighted by the King with the Sword of State ; and then every one...
Page 36 - He wounded some of them, but was soon disarmed : and then they cut his nose to the bone, to teach him to remember what respect he owed to the king : and so they left him, and went back to the duke of Monmouth's, where Obrian's arm was dressed.