Contains the barons from the commencement of Mr. Pitt's ministry 1784, to the termination of the eighteenth centuryF.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son, 1812 |
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Alexander ancestor anno appointed April argent August baptized Baron Baronet Bart born British peerage brother buried Carrickfergus castle Catherine Cheshire Chichester church coheir Cornwall daugh daughter and heir daughter of John daughter of Sir deceased December Devon died unmarried died without issue died young Douglas Dublin Duke Dutton dying Earl Edward eldest daughter England father February Fifth Fourth Frances Frankley Gage Gisburn Gowran Grandtully gules heirs male holy orders honour Ibid Ireland Jane January July June Kilkenny King James King's kingdom of Ireland Knight Lady lands left issue Lord Lordship married Lyttelton Majesty Majesty's manor March Margaret married Elizabeth married to Sir Mary member of parliament November October patent peer peerage Queen Queen's county reign Robert Scotland secondly September Sherborne Shropshire Sir Henry Sir John Sir Thomas Sir William sister Sixth Stewart Stuart succeeded Sussex third three sons Viscount Worcestershire
Popular passages
Page 349 - you shall be my confessor : when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life ; and it is the ground of my ftrtnre hopes.
Page 349 - I have made public good the rule of my conduct. I never gave counsels which I did not at the time think the best. I have seen that I was sometimes in the wrong; but I did not err designedly. I have endeavoured, in private life, to do all the good in my power, and never for a moment could indulge malicious or unjust designs upon any person whatsoever.
Page 349 - When lord and lady Valentia came to see his lordship, he gaye them his solemn benediction, and said, ' Be good, be virtuous, my lord; you must come to this.
Page 347 - With gentle female tenderness combin'd. Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong ; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.
Page 124 - The military system of discipline which he introduced, and the preparations which he made for his defence, were contrived with so much judgment, and executed with so much address, that he was able, with a handful of men, to preserve his post against an attack, the constancy of which, even without tlie vigour, was sufficient to exhaust any common set of men.
Page 199 - Jove endued with every grace ; The glory of the Granard race ; Now destined by the powers divine The blessing of another line. Then, would you paint a matchless dame, Whom you'd consign to endless fame? Invoke not Cytherea's aid, Nor borrow from the blue-eyed maid; Nor need you on the Graces call ; Take qualities from Donegal*.
Page 211 - Bacon : and was the last heir of that family. She had all the high notions for the church and the crown, in which she had been bred; but was the humblest, the devoutest, and best tempered person I ever knew of that sort f.
Page 606 - ... now, most happily, they first fell upon that room in the wreck where the bullion had been stored up; and they so prospered in this new fishery that in a little while they had without the loss of any man's life brought up thirtytwo tuns of silver; for it was now come to measuring of silver by tuns.
Page 142 - We own it Rebellion to resist a King that governs by Law ; but he was always accounted a Tyrant that made his Will the Law ; and to resist such an one, we justly esteem no Rebellion, but a necessary Defence...
Page 605 - Voyage thither; but with little more success, than what just served him a little to furnish him for a Voyage to England; whither he went in a Vessel, not much unlike that which the Dutchmen stamped on their First Coin, with these Words about it, Incertum quo Fata ferant. Having first informed himself that there was another Spanish Wreck, wherein was lost a mighty Treasure, hitherto undiscovered...