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History of the Worthies of England (1662). [8] Fuller's best-known work. The Poems and translations in verse, including fifty-nine hitherto unpublished epigrams of Fuller and his much-wished form of prayer for the first time collected and edited with introduction and notes, by rev. Grosart, 257 pp., Liverpool, printed for private circulation ...
John Paton's sword, flag and Bible which were owned by Howie [8] The old Lochgoin Covenanters Museum Lochgoin Farm and the John Howie Memorial, East Ayrshire. The list below reflects the chapter order in the book. For an alphabetical list see the "Scots Worthies" template at the foot of the page. Patrick Hamilton; George Wishart; Walter Mill
The Statesmen and Favourites of England since the Reformation, London, 1665 and 1670, 8vo.A reprint of the work appeared under the title of State Worthies in 2 vols. London, 1766, 8vo, under the editorship of Sir Charles Whitworth, who added the characters of the sovereigns of England, and sought to counteract the effect of Lloyd's extravagant eulogies of the royalists by introducing extracts ...
Although on 10 May 1800, he had attended Westminster Abbey for the funeral of his Gibside heiress cousin, Mary Eleanor Bowes [14] [15] – acknowledged as the wealthiest woman in England [16] – he accepted no aid from his relatives at Gibside, the coal-rich estate in the Derwent Valley, County Durham, that his ancestor, Sir William Blakiston ...
Sir John Cary (died 1395), who purchased the manor of Clovelly, but probably never lived there and certainly died in exile in Ireland. He was a judge who rose to the position of Chief Baron of the Exchequer (1386-8) and served twice as Member of Parliament for Devon, on both occasions together with his brother Sir William Cary, in 1363/4 and 1368/9. [4]
Towneley Hall in Towneley Park, Burnley. The Towneley or Townley family are an English family whose ancestry can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon England. Towneley Hall in Burnley, Lancashire, was the family seat until its sale, together with the surrounding park, to the corporation of Burnley in 1901.
Burke's Landed Gentry (originally titled Burke's Commoners) is a reference work listing families in Great Britain and Ireland who have owned rural estates of some size.The work has been in existence from the first half of the 19th century, and was founded by John Burke.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.