Notices of the Stanhopes as Esquires and Knights, and Until Their First Peerages in 1605 and 1616 |
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Adelina Alington ancient Anne appears argent arms Aveley bend between six Bretby buried Castle celebrated Earl Coat coheir Collins Countess of Chesterfield county of Nottingham Cubley daughter and heir daughter of Sir Derby Derbyshire died Duchess Earl of Chesterfield East Retford Edward Stanhope eldest engrailed epitaph Ermine and Gules Etwall Harleian Library heiress Houghton Hutchinson inscription John Babington John de Stanhope John Port King Henry King James Knight Lady Line of Descent Longvillers male line Manor Markham marriage married Alice monument of Sir Nottinghamshire Notts Parliament pedigree Philip Stanhope PORTE of Etwall portrait privy chamber Queen Elizabeth Rampton RAWSON Richard Stanhope sable Shelford Sir Edward Stanhope Sir Gervase Clifton Sir John Port Sir John Stanhope Sir Michael Stanhope Sir Richard Stanhope Sir Thomas Stanhope Sir William Somerset Staley Staveley Stoke Rochford Strelley Sudbourne Talbot of Bashall Thoroton's Throsby's tomb Tuxford Usworth Whitaker Wymondeley
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Page 18 - ... angry with him, and went on upon the place. This being seated on a flat, was encompassed with a very strong bulwark, and a great ditch without, in most places wet at the bottom, so that they within were very confident of being able to hold it out...
Page 25 - I have had the old Vere pedigree lately in my hands, which derives that house from Lucius Verus; but I am now grown to bear no descent but my Lord Chesterfield's, who has placed among the portraits of his ancestors two old heads, inscribed Adam de Stanhope and Eve de Stanhope ; the ridicule is admirable.
Page 29 - What, then, had transpired between Sir Thomas and the Countess ? ' My lord, I confess that talking thereof, she told me you had spoken to her in that behalf. I replied, she should do well to take hold of it, for I knew not where my lord, her son, should be better bestowed. Herself could tell what a stay you would be to him and his, and for perfect experience did teach her how beneficial you had been to that lady's father [ie Oxford], though by him little deserved.
Page 29 - Oxford], though by him little deserved. She answered, I said well, and so she thought and would in good faith do her best in the cause ; but saith she, "I do not find a disposition in my son to be tied as yet. What will be hereafter time shall try, and no want shall be found on my behalf.
Page 21 - Stanhope, lived (as is there* expressed) a widow thirty-five years, in which time she brought up all her younger children in virtue and learning, whereby they were preferred to the marriages and callings before recited. In her lifetime...
Page 17 - Elizabeth not unfrequently indulged in jests herself. Every one is familiar with the impromptu couplet she made on the names of four knights of the county of Nottinghamshire : " Gervase the gentle, Stanhope the stout, Markham the lion ; and Sutton the lout.
Page 21 - In her lifetime she kept continually a worshipful house, relieved the poor daily, gave good countenance and comfort to the preachers of God's word, spent the most of the time of her latter days in prayer, and using the church where God's word was preached.
Page 22 - I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. Phil i. 23. At the Benediction. Meditate how Christ, ascending up into heaven, blessed his disciples. Mark xvi. 19. Unto this are ye called, that ye may inherit a blessing. 1 Pet. iii. 9. AFFECTIONS. Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance. Ps. xxvii. 9. May God our God bless us ; may God bless us.
Page 20 - that went into the bellfrie, and they had made it fast, and " drawne up the ladder and the bell ropes, and regarded not the " Governor's threatening them to have no quarter if they came " not downe, so that he was forced to send for straw and fire it,
Page 27 - I feel quite incom" petent to give a decisive explanation of it. I take the liberty, " however, to suggest that it appears to me possible that it was " copied (with some blunders) from the name of our Saviour, " written in the contracted Greek formerly used, and which we " see in paintings belonging to the Greek Church. I imagine " it may have been something like this : THSOS B OQA OCl/3 I HZtfZ X4 O 0V YI0> Ir)<rovs 'Xpurros o ®eov vios.