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	Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mohun married the grand-daughter of Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield in 1691 with the hope that this match would alleviate some of his debt.
		But Mohun is best remembered for the events of December 8 of that year — a friend of Mohun's, an officer named Richard Hill, had fallen in love with the actress Anne Bracegirdle, however he faced competition from actor William Mountfort.
		Mohun joined the army shortly after his acquittal, wherein he served under Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, the uncle of his former wife, and briefly served in France.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Charles_Mohun%2C_4th_Baron_Mohun (579 words)

	Charles_Mohun,_4th_Baron_Mohun LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mohun's father died shortly after his birth, following a duel, and left him the family estate.
		Mohun married the granddaughter of Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, in 1691 with the hope that this match would alleviate some of his debt.
		But Mohun is best remembered for the events of December 9 of that yearâ”a friend of Mohun's, an officer named Richard Hill, had fallen in love with the actress Anne Bracegirdle, however he faced competition from actor William Mountfort.
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	Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mohun married the grand-daughter of (additional info and facts about Charles Gerard) Charles Gerard, (additional info and facts about 1st Earl of Macclesfield) 1st Earl of Macclesfield in 1691 with the hope that this match would alleviate some of his debt.
		Mohun joined the army shortly after his acquittal, wherein he served under (additional info and facts about Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield) Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, the uncle of his former wife, and briefly served in (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France.
		In 1712, two years after Mohun's (A member of the Whig Party in the United States in pre-Civil-War times) Whig party had been heavily defeated in an election, the Duke of Hamilton was given the post of special envoy to (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris.
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	Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mohun married the grand-daughter of Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield in 1691 with the hope that this match would alleviate some of his debt.
		Mohun joined the army shortly after his acquittal, wherein he served under Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, the uncle of his former wife, and briefly served in France.
		Mohun was again acquitted, although his friend Edward Rich, 6th Earl of Warwick was found guilty of manslaughter.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Charles-Mohun,-4th-Baron-Mohun.htm (640 words)

	Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He left most of his estate to Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, who had been a companion.
		The estate was also claimed by James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, who challenged Mohun through the courts.
		In March 1698 Macclesfield was divorced from his wife Anna, daughter of Sir Richard Mason of Sutton, by act of parliament the first occasion on which a divorce was so granted without a previous decree of an ecclesiastical court.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Gerard,_2nd_Earl_of_Macclesfield (324 words)

	MOHUN, CHARLES MOHUN, 4TH BARON - LoveToKnow Article on MOHUN, CHARLES MOHUN, 4TH BARON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MOHR, KARL FRIEDRICH (1806-1879), German pharmacist, son of a well-to-do druggist in Coblentz, was born on the 4th of November 1806.
		Mohun was arrested and put on trial in Westminster Hall before his peers for murder as an accessory before the fact (1693), but by an overwhelming majority the peers found him not guilty.
		But in 1712 his violent temper again got the better of him, and he forced the 4th duke of Hamilton, with whom he had been at law for some years, into a desperate duel in Hyde Park in the early hours of the isth of November, in which both combatants were killed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MOHUN_CHARLES_MOHUN_4TH_BARON.htm (1161 words)

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		Mohun was arrested and put on trial in Westminster Hall before his peers for murder as an accessory before the fact (1693), but by an overwhelming majority the peers found him not guilty.
		On this occasion Mohun expressed regret for his past life, and he seems subsequently to have made a genuine attempt to alter his ways and to have taken a practical interest in public affairs.
		But in 1712 his violent temper again got the better of him, and he forced the 4th duke of Hamilton, with whom he had been at law for some years, into a desperate duel in Hyde Park in the early hours of the 15th of November, in which both combatants were killed.
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	Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun
		But Mohun is best remembered for the events of December 9 of that year - a friend of Mohun's, an officer named Richard Hill, had fallen in love with the actress Anne Bracegirdle, however he faced competition from actor William Mountfort.
		Also as a result swords passed out of favour as the weapons of choice for such contests to be replaced by the pistol, which tended to result in shorter and less bloody fights.
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	The Battle for the Gawsworth estate@Everything2.com
		Charles remained committed to the royalist cause and had to be content with promotion to the rank of a general in the Royalist army and the award of the peerage title of Baron Gerard of Brandon on the 8th November 1645.
		Charles' health rapidly deteriorated and the 2nd Earl died on the 5th November 1701 at the age of forty-two leaving everyone in a state of suspense as to the destination of the Earl's wealth.
		The point was that Charles Mohun was very much a Whig and could therefore count on the support of the Whig Junto that effectively ran the country at the time, whilst James Hamilton was a Tory with Jacobite tendencies and regarded with the deepest suspicion by the crown.
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	Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield
		He left most of his estate to Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, who had been a companion.
		The estate was also claimed by James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, who challenged Mohun through the courts.
		In March 1698 Macclesfield was divorced from his wife Anna, daughter of Sir Richard Mason of Sutton, by act of parliament the first occasion on which a divorce was so granted without a previous decree of an ecclesiastical court.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ch/Charles%20Gerard%2C%202nd%20Earl%20of%20Macclesfield.htm (310 words)

	A Hamilton History: Highlights of the Lowlanders
		It was the Marquess, as High Commissioner, that Charles I entrusted with the task of convincing the Covenanters to abandon their League and Covenant in favor of supporting him in his contest with the English Parliament.
		Charles was so angered by the Marquess' ineptness that he incarcerated him at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall and later at St. Michael's Mount, where he remained until 1646.
		Educated at the University of Glasgow, James was appointed one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber of Charles II in 1679.
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	Baron Mohun of Okehampton at AllExperts
		Baron Mohun of Okehampton was a title in the Peerage of England that was created on 15 April 1628 for John Mohun, a former MP for Grampound.
		His father, Reginald Mohun (a former MP), had been created a baronet, of Boconnoc, Cornwall, on 25 November 1611 in the Baronetage of England.
		The 1st Baron succeded to the baronetcy in 1639, and the baronetcy and barony remained merged until they both became extinct on the death of the 4th Baron on 15 November 1712.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/ba/baron_mohun_of_okehampton.htm (231 words)

	H-Net Review: Lawrence B. Smith on Duke Hamilton Is Dead: A Story of Aristocratic Life and Death in ...
		Mohun's father, whom also died in a duel, gives new meaning to the adjective unscrupulous; his greed was so overpowering that he sued his own mother.
		Mohun emerges as unrepentant lifelong rake and hellion, an aristocratic thug who squandered time by frequenting smoky taverns in an advanced state of inebriation and griping about various subjects with mixed company of his social inferiors.
		The Irish-born Maccartney served as Mohun's second in the 1712 duel and was blamed by Hamilton's second as having inflicted the fatal stab wound that killed the Duke.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27971983564979 (2640 words)

	H-Net Review: Lawrence B. Smith on Duke Hamilton Is Dead: A Story of Aristocratic Life and Death in ...
		Mohun's father, whom also died in a duel, gives new meaning to the adjective unscrupulous; his greed was so overpowering that he sued his own mother.
		Mohun emerges as unrepentant lifelong rake and hellion, an aristocratic thug who squandered time by frequenting smoky taverns in an advanced state of inebriation and griping about various subjects with mixed company of his social inferiors.
		The Irish-born Maccartney served as Mohun's second in the 1712 duel and was blamed by Hamilton's second as having inflicted the fatal stab wound that killed the Duke.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27971983564979 (2640 words)

	List of famous duels - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		1652: George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos and Colonel Henry Compton (grandson of Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton); Compton was killed, Chandos was found guilty of manslaughter and died whilst imprisoned.
		1712: Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun and the James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton; both were killed.
		Digby, a founding member of the Royal Society, was attending a banquet in France when the Frenchman insulted King Charles I of England and Digby challenged him to a duel.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_famous_duels (4087 words)

	NPG 3218; Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun
		Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun (1675?-1712), Soldier and duellist.
		Subject to little control after his father's death in 1677, Mohun fought his first duel in 1692 and a few days later was involved in the brutal murder of the actor Mountfort.
		NPG D18791: Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun (impression from same plate as)
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	Hamilton History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was sent by the Scottish committee of estates to treat with Charles I. at Newcastle in 1646, when he sought in vain to persuade the king to consent to the establishment of Presbyterianism in England.
		James Douglas, 4th duke of Hamilton (1658-1712), eldest son of the preceding and of Duchess Anne, succeeded his mother, who resigned the dukedom to him in 1698, and at the accession of Queen Anne he was regarded as leader of the Scottish national party.
		Claud Hamilton, 1st Baron paisley, brother of the 1st marquess of Hamilton, was, as mentioned above, ancestor of the Abercorn branch of the Hamiltons.
	www.hamiltongensociety.org /history.php (2903 words)

	Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But Mohun is best remembered for the events of December 9 of that year — a friend of Mohun's, an officer named Richard Hill, had fallen in love with the actress Anne Bracegirdle, however he faced competition from actor William Mountfort.
		Forsythe, Robert S. A Noble Rake: the life of Charles, fourth lord Mohun; being a study in the historical background of Thackeray's "Henry Esmond".
		Kiernan, V.G. The duel in European history: honour and the reign of aristocracy.
	www.punweb.com /article/Charles_Mohun%2C_4th_Baron_Mohun (606 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1712 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		November 15 - James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nationalist (b.
		James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, (1658 – November 15, 1712), eldest son of William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and of Duchess Anne, succeeded his mother, who resigned the dukedom to him in 1698.
		Charles II's Grant of New England to the Duke of York, 1676 - Exemplified by Queen Anne; 1712 (1)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1712 (2680 words)

	List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
		437 (inv 1638) Charles (Stuart), Duke of Cornwall.
		708 (inv 1853) Algernon (Percy), 4th Duke of Northumberland.
		825 (inv 1902) Cromartie (Sutherland Leveson-Gower), 4th Duke of Sutherland.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/garterlist.htm (13903 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Duke of Hamilton
		The 1st Earl of Selkirk's eldest son James Hamilton (1658-1712) was known as the Earl of Arran until 9 July 1698 when his mother, Anne Hamilton, abdicated her titles of Duchess of Hamilton, Marchioness of Clydesdale, Lady Aven and Innerdale, Countess of Arran and Cambridge, Countess of Lanark and Lady Machansyre and Polmont.
		He was created Duke of Brandon and Baron of Dutton in the Peerage of Great Britain on 10 September 1711, and famously killed in duel with Lord Mohun (who also died) in Hyde Park on 15 November 1712.
		The 4th Duke's son James Douglas (1703-1743) was succeeded by his son James Douglas-Hamilton (1724-1758) and he by his son James George Douglas-Hamilton (1755-1769) who became the 7th Duke of Hamilton upon his father's death.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Duke_of_Hamilton_and_Brandon (1492 words)

	Baron Strange biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His brother William inherited his earldom, which could only pass to heirs-male, but his baronial titles - Baron Strange, Baron Mohun of Dunster and Baron Stanley - which could pass to females as well as males, fell into abeyance between the late Earl's three daughters and their heirs.
		In 1628, the sixth earl's eldest son James was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Strange by a writ of acceleration.
		Later, when it was discovered that the sixth earl's assumption of the title was erroneous, it was deemed that there were two baronies of Strange, one created in 1299 and then in abeyance, and another created accidentally in 1628.
	baron-strange.biography.ms (549 words)

	CHARLES MOHUN MOHUN - Online Information article about CHARLES MOHUN MOHUN
		Greetings were exchanged between Mohun and Mountfort, and the latter made a disparaging remark about Hill, who either without warning (according to Mountfort's deathbed statement) or in See also:
		Mohun was arrested and put on trial in See also:
		State Trials) justifies the decision, and establishes the presumption that the fight was a fair one.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MIC_MOL/MOHUN_CHARLES_MOHUN.html (724 words)

	List of people killed in duels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		perennial duellist Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London — 1712
		George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spy; 1731; key supporter of the Acts of Union 1707, but later repented and revealed extent of English bribery.
		Charles Dickinson, by US President Andrew Jackson — 1806
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_people_killed_in_duels (189 words)

	1712 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		December 12 - Prince Charles of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (d.
		August 18 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
		November 15 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b.
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