The New Baronetage of England: Containing, as Well a Concise Genealogical History, as the Present State and Alliances of the English Baronets, and Baronets of Great Britain, and of the United Kingdom, from Institution of the Order in 1611, to the Union with Ireland, at the Close of the Year 1800, Volume 1 |
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afterwards aged argent ARMS---Argent Bart born brother Catharine ceeded Charles II cheveron coheir of Sir coheiress of Sir daugh daughter and coheir daughter and heiress daughter of John daughter of Sir daughter of Thomas daughter of William descended died an infant died April died Feb died Jan died Nov died Oct died Sept died unmarried died without issue died young Dorothy dying Earl eldest daughter eldest surviving four daughters four sons Frances gules heir Herefordshire Ireland June 29 knighted liam Lincolnshire Lord married Anne married Elizabeth married Mary married secondly parliament present Baronet relict ried sable Sarah second wife serjeant at law shire Sir Charles Sir Edward Sir Francis Sir George Sir Henry Sir Richard Sir Robert six sons Staffordshire succeeded his father successor three daughters three sons Viscount Warwickshire wife of John wife of Sir wife of Thomas William the Conqueror Yorkshire
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Page 268 - Her anxiety and sufferings were thus protracted through seven or eight dark and cold hours ; and her reflections upon that first reception, could not give her very encouraging ideas of the treatment she was afterwards to expect. But it is due to justice, at the close of this adventure, to say, that she was received and accommodated by General Gates, with all the humanity and respect that her rank, her merits, and her fortunes deserved.
Page 198 - Arms and Descents of the Ancient Knightly and Gentle Houses of England, arranged in their respective Counties, attempted by EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, Esq., MA, FSA, one of the Knights of the Shire for the County of Warwick, 4to, HANDSOMELY PBINTED, pp.
Page 144 - He was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of James I., 25th July 1603. He was of St. Stephen's, Canterbury. Died 1625. LINE 75, ' termined' =- terminated; L 80, 'brim' — See Glossarial Index, sv, for other examples,— G.
Page 268 - The night was advanced before the boat reached the enemy's outposts, and the sentinel would not let it pass, nor even come on shore. In vain Mr. Brudenell offered the flag of truce, and represented the state of the extraordinary passenger. The guard, apprehensive of treachery, and punctilious to their orders, threatened to fire into the boat if they stirred before daylight.
Page 37 - Commonwealth man, and was one of the knights of the shire for the county of Northampton, in 1656 ; he was also of Cromwell's council, chamberlain of the court, and high steward of Westminster.
Page 385 - Denbighshire, of one of the fifteen tribes of North Wales, who lived in the times of Roderic Maur (Roderic the Great) king of the Britons, about the year 849.
Page 268 - ... delivering herself to the enemy — probably in the night, and uncertain of what hands she might fall into...
Page 176 - Ambrose, a brigadier in the life-guards, who was unfortunately slain in 1690, as he was sitting peaceably in his chair, in public company, by one Biron, an officer, whose life he had frequently spared, though many provocations had caused frequent skirmishing between them, and in return for his generosity, Mr. Biron...
Page 64 - ... his life ; for, hearing that the king had killed a white buck in his park at Arrow, which he set much store by, he passionately wished the horns in the belly of him who moved the king so to do; for which words he was arraigned and convicted of high treason, upon inference of a mischievous meaning to tbe king himself, and was beheaded in 1477. advanced to the dignity of a bart. ; m. Jane, da. and heiress I. THOMAS, the 18th in descent from d...
Page 119 - Sable, a fesse wavy, between two pole stars, argent. Crest — On a helmet a ship under ruff, drawn round a globe with a cable rope by a hand out of the clouds : over it this Motto — Auxilio divino; and under it, Sic parvis magna.