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" The lord Mordaunt was the first of all the English nobility that came over openly, to see the prince of Orange. He asked the king's leave to do it. He was a man of much heat, many notions, and full of discourse ; he was brave and generous, but had not... "
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed Passages of the ... - Page 261
by Gilbert Burnet - 1823
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Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...into England. Bishop Burnet thus relates it in his History of his Own Times, •The Lord Mordaunt was the first of all the English nobility that came over openly to see the Prince of Orange. He asked the King's leave to do it. He was a man of much heat, ninny notions, and full of discourse : he was brave...
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Contains the earls to the termination of the seventeenth century

Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 828 pages
...into England. Bishop Burnet tnte relates it in his History of his Own Times, " The Lord Mordaunt was the first of all the English nobility that came over openly to see the Prince of Orange. He asked the King's leave to do it. He was a man of much heat, many notions, and full of discourse : he was brave...
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History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed Passages of the First ..., Volume 3

Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 408 pages
...England, to give an account of a The advices secret management there. The lord Mordaunt s was ]and'. "B the first of all the English nobility that came over...hands with a squadron of pected the intentions of Hoi- theirs, which was refused. Hist, land, for when the Dutch fitted of England, vol. ip 1006.) out...
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Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With Notes by the Earls of ...

Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 424 pages
...return to England, to give an account of a land! ' " secret management there. The lord Mordauntb was the first of all the English nobility that came over...Orange. He asked the designed the expedition against Sunderland in his letter of England. The same historian apology intimates, that the further observes,...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 4

Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...disgust with the measures of the court. He retired to Holland. " The Lord Mordaunt," says Burnet, " was the first of all the English nobility that came over openly to see the prince of Orange. He asked the king's leave to do it. He was a man of much heat, many notions, and full of discourse. He was brave...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 5

English literature - 1836 - 436 pages
...the stadtholder, was rejected for the present as premature. "The lord Mordaunt," says Burnet, " was the first of all the English nobility that came over openly to see the prince of Orange. He asked the king's leave to do it. He was a man of much heat, many notions, and full of discourse. He was brave...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 5

1836 - 428 pages
...present as premature. "The lord Mordaunt," says Burnet, " was the first of all the English nohility that came over openly to see the prince of Orange. He asked the king's leave to do it. He was a man of much heat, many notions, and full of discourse. He was brave...
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Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of ..., Volume 1

Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1840 - 646 pages
...that. I now return to England, to give an account of a secret management there. The lord Mordaunt was the first of all the English nobility that came over...openly, to see the prince of Orange. He asked the king's leave to do it. He was a man of much heat, many notions, and full of discourse ; he was brave...
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Letters of William iii. and Louis xiv. and of their ministers ..., Volume 1

William III (king of Gt. Britain.) - 1848 - 608 pages
...squadron in the West Indies. On his arrival at the Hague (16S6), " Lord Mordaunt," as relates Burnet, "was the first of all the English nobility that came over openly to see House of Lords ; Messrs. Seymour *, Thomas Dick Grenvillef, MusgraveJ, and Foley, who is the the Prince...
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Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of ..., Volume 1

Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1850 - 996 pages
...to give an account of a secret management there. The lord Mordaunt was the first of all the Englieh nobility that came over openly, to see the prince of Orange. He asked the king's leave to do it. He was a man of much heat, many notions, and full of discourse ; he was brave...
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