| Thomas Birch - 1760 - 464 pages
...Thomas Lorkin, a Clergyman, who was going to travel with Mr. Thomas Puckering, only fon of Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, one of whofe daughters was married to Mr. Newton, to write to him the occurrences of France. Mr. Lorkin,... | |
| William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker - Philosophy - 1791 - 650 pages
...born in London in the year one thoufand five hundred and fixty. His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It was the good fortune of Lord Bacon, that he appeared at a time when learning was commonly admired... | |
| Stephen Jones - Biography - 1799 - 456 pages
...perhaps-, for mechanical knowledge, that ever appeared in the world since Archimedes. BACON (SIR NICHOLAS) lord keeper of the great seal in the reign of queen Elizabeth, was desccndedof an ancient family in Suffolk, born i» the year 1510, and died, lamented by her and... | |
| James Hardie - Biography - 1801 - 530 pages
...might, perhaps, standin competition with the greatest that have appeared since. BACON, (Sir NICHOLAs) lord keeper of the great seal, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was descended of an ancient family, in Suffolk, England, and born in 1510. After continuing the usual... | |
| B. Lambert - London (England) - 1806 - 624 pages
...his origin, or was ungrateful to any who had assisted to raise him from it. • Sir NICHOLAS BACON, lord keeper of the great seal, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was born at Chiselhurst, in 1510, and educated at the university of Cambridge; after which he travelled... | |
| David Hughson - London (England) - 1808 - 566 pages
...respectable residents at Ken-, were Charles Somerset, earl of Worcester; Edward, earl of Devon; Sir John Puckering, lord keeper of the great seal, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. The royal Palace of Kcw, formerly belonged to the family of Capel, whence it came by marriage to Samuel... | |
| David Hughson - London (England) - 1808 - 576 pages
...respectable residents at Kew, were Charles Somerset, earl of Worcester; Edward, earl of Devon ; Sir John Puckering, lord keeper of the great seal, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. • The royal Palace of Kew, formerly belonged to the family of Capel, whence it came by marriage to... | |
| Edward Pugh - 1808 - 572 pages
...respectable residents at Kew, were Charles Somerset, earl of Worcester; Edward, earl of Devon; Sir John Puckering, lord keeper of the great seal, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. The royal Palace of Kew, formerly belonged to the family of Capel, whence it came by marriage to Samuel... | |
| John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...who has been beautifully called the "Chancellor of Human Nature," was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper of the great seal in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Sir Nicholas was a man of great talents, profoundly skilled in the law, and of spotless integrity.... | |
| 1809 - 304 pages
...Bacon, Lord Viscount St. Alban's, and Lord High Chancellor of England, was son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by Anne, one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, and eminent for her skill in the Latin and Greek... | |
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