An account of ... sir Arthur Chichester, lord Belfast ... With notes and a memoir of the author by lord Clermont |
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Page 7 - Regmt up in a fayre field and exercised them perfectly (at which he was excelent) they being in close order, the Earle thinking to put a sally on them by breaking thorow them, charged at them with his Galant Cavallrie, but the Collonell (not being used to receive foyles) had so ordered his Pikes as they forc't the Earle to a carry coale...
Page 30 - I am called upon to offer a sketch of his history, — and it is delightful, amidst intriguing Churchmen and warlike Barons who held the Great Seal in this age, to present to the reader a lawyer, not only of deep professional learning, but cultivated by the study of classical antiquity, and not only of brilliant talents, but the ardent and enlightened lover of liberty, — to whose explanation and praises of our free constitution we are in no small degree indebted for the resistance to oppressive...
Page 24 - And being mindefull of his mortalitie, reprcfented unto Him by the untymely death of Arthure his fonne, the Only hope of his howfe, who lived not full two months After his birth ; as alfo of his noble and valiant brother Sir John Chichefter, Knight, late Serjeant-Major of the Army in this kingdome, and the precedent Governour of This towne, hath caufed this chappell to be repaired, And this valt and monument to be made and...
Page 18 - Chichester [Vj. v.], went to Ireland in command of a regiment of infantry, and took with him Faithful Fortescue. In a brief memoir of his uncle, compiled after his death, printed by Lord Clermont, Fortescue says : ' With the first Lord Chichester I had, from coming young from school, my education, and by him the foundation of my advancement and fortune I acquired in Ireland.
Page 24 - Elisabeth, daughter of John Bourgchier Earle of Bathe : After the flight Of the Earls of Tiron and Terconnel, And other arch traytors their accomplices, Having suppressed O'Doughertie and other northern rebels. And...
Page 15 - Somerfett, bidding him learn it without book, faying he had not received fuch a letter fince he was King of England — and the Secretary of State, the Earle Salifbury, and Lords of the Councill, woud give the Lynes high prayfe.
Page 43 - ... fcarfs, which they all wore as the Earl of Eflex's colours; and being immediately engaged in the charge, many of them, not fewer than feventeen, or eighteen, were fuddenly killed by thofe to whom they had joined themfelves.
Page 24 - Sir John Chichefter, of Raleiche, Knight, and of his wife Gartrud Courtney, grandchild of Edward Chichefter, and of his wife...