A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland |
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Alice Anne Anthony Baron BARONET by King BARONETCY became EXTINCT BARONETCY EXPIRED bart brother buried BURKE'S Commoners Castle Catherine Cheshire co-heir of Sir county of York created a BARONET daugh daughter and co-heir daughter and heir daughter of John daughter of Sir daughter of Thomas daughter of William decease descended Devon died s. p. Dorothy dying Earl EDWARD III elder Elizabeth Essex father Frances gentleman grandson Hall heir of Sir heiress HENRY VIII Hertfordshire holy orders JAMES Jane July June Kent King CHARLES knight lady Lancashire Lincolnshire Lineage London Lord lordship manor Margaret married Mary Nicholas Norfolk Northamptonshire Oxfordshire parliament Peerage Ralph relict Roger secondly serjeant-at-law sheriff shire Sir Edward Sir Francis Sir George Sir Henry Sir John Sir Richard Sir Robert Sir Thomas Sir William sister successor Suffolk Surrey surviving temp three sons Viscount Walter Warwickshire wedded widow wife
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Page 53 - These marriages were celebrated at Whitehall with all imaginable pomp and lustre ; and it was observed, that though the marriages were performed in public view according to the rites and ceremonies then in use, they were presently...
Page 302 - Even such is time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth and grave and dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 175 - In the former a panel still exists, recording his happy rise to fortune. The Baronet, then humble Duck, cast out by the butchers, stands near a bridge in an attitude of despondency, and in the air a raven is seen bearing in his bill a piece of money, which, according to tradition, fell at his feet, and which, being put out to use, was the nucleus on which he wound a splendid fortune.
Page 202 - he was a learned man, and a good antiquary, but of a marvellous merry and pleasant conceit.
Page 222 - 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 372 - ... in the dining-room was supplied with a large fountain, and the glasses stood under little streams of water. His coach had a moveable kitchen, with clockwork machinery, with which he could make soup, broil steaks, or roast a joint of meat.
Page 32 - ... 1545, when, having recommended himself to the king by his activity in forwarding a loan in London, and other imposts, he was made chancellor of the exchequer. Henry constituted him an assistant trustee for the minor successor, after whose accession his name is scarcely mentioned in history, except in one instance, which ought not to be forgotten : he was the only privy counsellor who steadfastly denied his assent to the last will of that prince, by which Mary and Elizabeth were excluded from...
Page 53 - Falconbridge, a wise and worthy woman, more likely to have maintained the post than either of her brothers; according to a saying that went of her, that those who wore breeches deserved petticoats better, but if those in petticoats had been in breeches they would have held faster v.
Page 235 - ... of that country, but was to expect the inheritance from the favour of an old severe grandfather, who for the present kept the young couple from running into any excess, the mother of the lady being of as...
Page 459 - Elizabeth thought proper to favour the cause of the reformation in Scotland, and to support the nobility who were for it against Mary, sir Ralph Sadler was her principal agent, and...