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Vor 2 Tagen · William Stanley, Earl of Derby, was Mayor of Liverpool in 1604 and obtained from the King the renewal of the Charters of the town in March, 1604. But the grant under the privy seal was March 31, anno 4 of England and France and 39 of Scotland, when it should have been March 31, anno 2 of England and France and 37 of Scotland.
Vor 4 Tagen · Among other papers deserving of mention are the letters of the Duchess of Suffolk to Sir William Cecil; the Settlements (dated Aug. 6, 1569) for the proposed marriage of Sir Philip Sidney and Ann, Cecil's daughter; and an unpublished letter of Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh to Raulet, dated Aug. 18 [1570], in which the writer states that if the Queen of Scots “will not haif no regarde on me for ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The manor of Newsham must have been granted to Lord Burghley, who held it in 1593 ; his son the Earl of Exeter held it in 1609. (fn. 177) Diana daughter and co-heir of William Cecil, second Earl of Exeter, married Thomas Bruce, first Earl of Elgin (fn. 178) and lord of Whorlton in Cleveland (q.v.), and in 1728 Newsham still followed the descent of Whorlton.
Vor 2 Tagen · The Earl of Leicester was one of Elizabeth's leading statesmen, involved in domestic as well as foreign politics alongside William Cecil and Sir Francis Walsingham. Although he refused to be married to Mary, Queen of Scots , Leicester was for a long time relatively sympathetic to her until, from the mid-1580s, he urged her execution.
Vor 2 Tagen · Noble Families Extinct. Holland, Duke of Exeter. — John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, (third son of Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent, by the heiress of Edmund de Woodstock, Earl of Kent,) was created Duke of Exeter, in 1388. He had two seats in this county, Exeter castle, and Dartington. The title was forfeited by his attainder, in 1399; but ...
Vor 5 Tagen · In 1614 the Mercers granted a 30 years' lease of it to Thomas, Earl of Exeter, who in the following year sold his lease to Sir William Slingsby. The street called Long Acre was laid out at about this time by Slingsby and the Earl of Bedford, the line of the street following approximately the line of the common boundary of their properties. Thenceforth the term Long Acre was frequently applied ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War , American War of Independence , French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars .
