A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 5George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton, 1855 |
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Page 38
... obtained several lordships in Cheshire and Bucks ; but , dying without issue , they descended to his elder brother , Richard de Vernon , lord of Vernon , who was one of the barons created by Hugh Lupus , to whom the Conqueror , in the ...
... obtained several lordships in Cheshire and Bucks ; but , dying without issue , they descended to his elder brother , Richard de Vernon , lord of Vernon , who was one of the barons created by Hugh Lupus , to whom the Conqueror , in the ...
Page 43
... obtain- ed as to its legality . Walpole insinuates that an opinion unfavourable to the prisoner was obtained from the judges by Hardwicke's inter- ference ; but this is too monstrous an assertion to be received on the authority of that ...
... obtain- ed as to its legality . Walpole insinuates that an opinion unfavourable to the prisoner was obtained from the judges by Hardwicke's inter- ference ; but this is too monstrous an assertion to be received on the authority of that ...
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... obtained him the soubriquet of Old Dreadnought among the sailors . Dodington , Lord Melcombe . BORN A. D. 1691 ... obtain a peerage . With this view he first prostrated himself at the feet of the minister , on whom he even lavished the ...
... obtained him the soubriquet of Old Dreadnought among the sailors . Dodington , Lord Melcombe . BORN A. D. 1691 ... obtain a peerage . With this view he first prostrated himself at the feet of the minister , on whom he even lavished the ...
Page 58
... obtain the government of him ; and with this view she appears to have resorted to many very ungracious expe- dients . In Orford's Memoirs it is stated that she allowed Cresset , her confidant , " to deal out very ungracious epithets ...
... obtain the government of him ; and with this view she appears to have resorted to many very ungracious expe- dients . In Orford's Memoirs it is stated that she allowed Cresset , her confidant , " to deal out very ungracious epithets ...
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... obtained , and had the reversion of a teller- ship of the exchequer given to him by his sovereign , in lieu of a pension of £ 2,000 a - year pressed upon him by the ministry , but which he re- fused to accept . After matters were ...
... obtained , and had the reversion of a teller- ship of the exchequer given to him by his sovereign , in lieu of a pension of £ 2,000 a - year pressed upon him by the ministry , but which he re- fused to accept . After matters were ...
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