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A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct ... - Page 166
by Bernard Burke - 1866 - 636 pages
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Characters of Eminent Men in the Reigns of Charles I and II: Including the ...

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...understanding very present in the article of danger, which is a rare benefit in that profession. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most...found it not in his power to perform the agreement he had made with Dorchester and Weymouth. If he had lived, he would have proved a great ornament to...
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Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 692 pages
...he put off with severity, when others thought them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most...found it not in his power to perform the agreement he had made with Dorchester and Weymouth. If he had lived, lie would have proved a great ornament to...
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Contains the barons from the accession of King James I to the termination of ...

Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 598 pages
...he put off with severity, when others thought them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most...persuaded to stay in the West, when he found it not in bis power to perform the agreement he had made with Dorchester and Wcymouth. If be had lived, be would...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, to which ..., Volume 4

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1826 - 652 pages
...he put off with severity, when others thought them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most...found it not in his power to perform the agreement he had made with Dorchester and Weymouth. If he had lived, he would have proved a great ornament to...
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A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and ...

John Burke - Baronetage - 1831 - 656 pages
...he put off with severity, when others thought them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most...as a commander, that he could not be persuaded to ftay in the west, when he found it not in his power to perform the agreement which he had made with...
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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 5

Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 298 pages
...himself, he put off with severity when others thought them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most deliberately when he had a power to do wrong ; and so strict in the observation of his word and promise as a commander, that...
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Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of Clarendon: The life of ...

Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 622 pages
...put ofF with " severity, when others thought them excuseable under the notion of " a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then "...found it not in " his power to perform the agreement he had made with Dorchester " and Weymouth. If he had lived he would have proved a great " ornament...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Volume 4

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1839 - 706 pages
...he put off with severity, when others thought them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most...found it not in his power to perform the agreement he had made with Dorchester and Weymouth. If he had lived, he would have proved a great ornament to...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together ..., Volume 3

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1849 - 570 pages
...he put off with severity, when others thought them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most...found it not in his power to perform the agreement he had made with Dorchester and Weymouth. If he had lived, he would have proved a great ornament to...
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Memoirs of prince Rupert and the Cavaliers including their private ..., Volume 2

Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 506 pages
...himself he put off with severity when others held them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most deliberately when he had a power to do wrong ; and so strict in the observation of his word and promise as a commander, that...
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