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Hace 2 días · This viscount leased the manor to Thomas Ingram and Francis Gerrard, to hold for eighty years, if the viscount or his wife Mary lived so long, at the rent of a peppercorn. He had warrant in 1668 to preserve game within 4 miles of Newburgh. In 1689 he was created Earl Fauconberg.
Hace 3 días · As a whole and despite its undoubted merits, the volume remains an uncomfortable mixture. In part, it engages with Cromwell in his own time (Little, Gaunt, Capp, Dunthorne). For the rest, it looks at Cromwell’s varying reputation and the uses to which it has been put at different times and in a variety of contexts.
Hace 2 días · Groom of the Stole 1660–1837. The groom of the stole was the effective head of the royal bedchamber, with the right to attend the Sovereign at all times and to regulate access to the bedchamber and closet even when absent. The office, which was invariably coupled with that of first gentleman or first lady of the bedchamber from 1660, was in ...
Hace 5 días · The Towneley manuscripts were dispersed in a series of sales at Sothebys in 1883, but vol. 31, items 9 and 10 (the two versions of the November 8, 1539 letter from Cromwell, the October 26, 1539 letter to Cromwell, and the 1569 letter to the sheriff of Kent) seem to have stuck together until 2012, despite being removed from the volume by at least 2005.
Hace 1 día · WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—THE CHAPELS AND ROYAL TOMBS. "A feeling sad came o'er me as I trod the sacred ground. Where Tudors and Plantagenets were lying all around; I stepp'd with noiseless foot, as though the sound of mortal tread. Might burst the bands of the dreamless sleep that wraps the mighty dead!" Ingoldsby Legends.
Hace 4 días · Siege of Namur. William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [b] also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from ...
Hace 2 días · Thomas Cromwell is a good subject for fact and fiction. He was and remains somewhat of an enigma both as a visionary for government efficiency and as an ambitious ‘new man’ rising from the obscurity of a blacksmith’s son to perhaps the most powerful man in England save his king, Henry VIII. Moreover, much like his mentor Cardinal Thomas ...
