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Há 6 dias · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole. Originally the gentlemen were sworn in pursuance of royal warrants directed to the lord chamberlain. (fn. 2) From 1685 to 1688 these warrants were directed to the groom ...
Há 4 dias · These houses (Plates 141b, 148c, figs. 49, 50) were built by Benjamin Timbrell in 1735–6 as part of the redevelopment of the Chandos House site (see pages 122–3). Nos. 4 and 5 were rebuilt as Bray House in 1933–4 by M. J. Dawson. Figure 49: No. 6 Duke of York Street, plans. From 1791 to 1821 No. 6 was occupied by General Sir Charles ...
7 de mai. de 2024 · Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland was born before 16 May 1452 She was the daughter of James II Stewart, King of Scotland and Marie von Geldern. She married, firstly, Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran, son of Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock and Mariot Maxwell, before 26 April 1467. She married, secondly, James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton ...
Há 6 dias · Spain was at war with Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and Austria in the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720) and organized an expedition under James Butler, Duke of Ormonde to invade England with 7,000 troops and replace the Hanoverian George I with the Jacobite pretender James Francis Edward Stuart.
Há 4 dias · His son, Edward Somerset (1601-1667), 2nd marquess outlived his father by only a year. It was during this period that Oliver Cromwell seized parts of the family estate. Edward's eldest son and heir was Henry Somerset (1629-1700), 3rd marquess of Worcester and 1st Duke of Beaufort. In 1650 he sold #1,600 worth of the family estates in Glamorgan ...
Há 2 dias · We are grateful for David Coast’s perceptive review of The Murder of King James I and for his interesting questions about further research. As he suggests, a properly historicized approach to how contemporaries imagined that political life operated is essential to further progress in the field, and, in the past few months, our understanding of this particular issue has come into even sharper ...
30 de abr. de 2024 · No wonder that Taylor, writing to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde shortly after his consecration, should have said, "I perceive myself thrown into a place of torment". His letters perhaps somewhat exaggerate the danger in which he lived, but there is no doubt that his authority was resisted and his overtures rejected.
