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  Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His great-grandfather John Grey of Pirgo was son of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and younger brother of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
She married George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer and was the mother of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington.
She married Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin and was the mother of Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin.
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He married Anne, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd earl of Exeter, the heiress of the borough and manor of Stamford, and in March 1628 was created earl of Stamford.
The earl, who was certainly no general, was charged with cowardice, and took no further part in the military operations of the war, although once or twice he was employed on other business.
A member of the council of state under the Commonwealth, Grey fought against the Scots in 1651, and in February 16J5 he was arrested on suspicion of conspiring against Cromwell.
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 War of Roses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Henry V died in 1422, and Richard, Duke of York, the son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge and Anne Mortimer, would grow up to challenge his successor, the feeble King Henry VI, for the crown.
Henry's recovery in 1455 thwarted Richard's ambitions, and the Duke of York was soon after driven from the royal court by Henry's queen, Margaret of Anjou.
Henry went on royal progress in the Midlands in 1456, and Margaret did not allow him to return to London—the king and queen were popular in the Midlands but becoming ever more unpopular in London where merchants were angry at the decline in trade and widespread disorder.
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 Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, PC (January 13, 1651 – January 2, 1694) was a son of George Booth, Baron Delamer and Lady Elizabeth Grey.
His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.
He served as a member of Parliament for Cheshire, and was conspicuous for his opposition to Catholics.
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 Woodstock, Oxfordshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Henry I may have kept a menagerie in park.
Woodstock was the scene of King Henry II 's courtship of Rosamund Clifford (Fair Rosamund).
The greater part of the art treasures curios were sold off in 1886 and the great library collected by Spencer earl of Sunderland the son-in-law of first duke of Marlborough in 1881.
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 Heraldry Stamford at Local.co.uk
The unicorn is from the heraldry of the Earl of Stamford whose arms (for the family of Grey) hang from the collar.
martyr Seynt Katryn in Stamford, gilda sancti Petri in Oxeburghe, and Gilda Sancti...
Northampton, to Bedford, to Stamford, to Brackery (Brackley), and to Oxford.
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 Hereford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On September 30, 1642, Parliamentarians led by Sir Robert Harley and Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford occupied the city without opposition.
The city was again occupied briefly from April 23 to May 18, 1643 by Parliamentarians commanded by Sir William Waller but it was in 1645 that the city saw most action.
On July 31 a Scottish army of 14000 under Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven besieged the city but met stiff resistance from its garrison and inhabitants.
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 reagenealogy - pafg191 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick [Parents] was born about 1048.
Edmund Plantagenet of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent was born on 5 Aug 1301 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England.
Thomas de Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent was born in 1350 in Upholand, Lancashire.
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 1673 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 18 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Quakers.
August 21 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
October 17 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b.
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 Thomas Lord Grey 1623 - 1657
He was the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Stamford (direct descendants of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days Queen).
The Grey Family were related to the Earl of Essex and Thomas seems to have been a surrogate son to him.
As Parliament's commander in Leicestershire Lord Grey was continually at odds with the forces of his Royalist equivalent, Sir Henry Hastings, and not least with the villainous rob-carriers of Sir Gervas Lucas’ Belvoir Cormorants.
www.gervaselucas.org.uk /greys.html   (447 words)

  
 Tom's Place - Caldwells of the World
Henry preferred him and arranged the marriage to the widow de Senlis who was the daughter of Earl Siward of Huntingdon and heiress to Northumbria.
Earl Duncan was a native Scot and not a Norman so there might be something in the fact that Thomas Colville might have been called "le Scot" to distinguish him from his conntemporary Philip de Colville who may well have been of Norman ancestry.
A commission was granted by Henry III in 1225 for receiving Neil, Earl of Carrick, and other Scotsmen into his protection, and he was one of the Regents of Scotland, and Guardians of Alexander III and his Queen, appointed in the English interest at a convention at Roxburgh 20.9.1255.
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 thePeerage.com - Sir Francis Wollryche and others
He was the son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and Lady Anne Cecil.
He was the son of Henry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford and Dorothy Wrighte.
She married Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford, son of Henry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford and Dorothy Wrighte, in May 1736.
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 President of the Board of Trade
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Lord Hawkesbury, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1796) 1786-1804 (also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster)
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (also Master of the Mint[?])
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon 1841-1843
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 Magna Carta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This son of Duncan 1st of Scotland was sent down to King Edward's Norman court in England, probably as a hostage, by the Earl of Northumbria after the McBeth affair.
After Henry of England died in 1135 David was pursuaded by the men of Galloway to go after the three northern English counties again.
Henry II of England demanded homage from Malcolm IV, son of David, at Chester in 1157, confirmed the three counties to be English.
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 thePeerage.com - Brownlow Cecil, 8th Earl of Exeter and others
She married Brownlow Cecil, 8th Earl of Exeter, son of John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter and Elizabeth Brownlow, on 18 July 1724.
She was the daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and Lady Anne Cecil.
She married Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin, son of Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin and Anne Chichester, on 16 February 1645/46 in St.
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 grey03
Families covered: Grey of Dorset, Grey of Groby, Grey of L'Isle, Grey of Pirgo, Grey of Stamford, Grey of Suffolk, Grey of Warrington
This meant that her daughter, Jane Grey, was in line for the throne of England, albeit certainly not at the top of that line.
Frances is described in Visitation (Essex, 1558, Cooke) as dau of "Lord John Gray sister of Henry Grey of Pirgo".
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 Earl Fine Art at absolutearts.com
Jacobus Houbraken, Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, 1741
Wenceslas Hollar, Jerome Weston, Earl of Portland, 1645
Portrait of a Man, Said to Be John Cecil (1628-1678), Fourth Earl of Exeter, ca.
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 Henry Booth, 1st Earl Of Warrington info here at en.93of100e.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, PC (January 13, 1651 – January 2, 1694) was a son of George Booth, Baron Delamer und Lady Elizabeth Grey.
His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford und Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.
He was constituted Earl of Warrington in 1690.
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 STAMFORD, HENRY GREY - Online Information article about STAMFORD, HENRY GREY
John Grey, succeeded his grandfather, Henry Grey as See also:
At Stratton, in May 1643, his troops were beaten by the Royalists; driven into Exeter, Stamford was forced to surrender this city after a See also:
Commonwealth, Grey fought against the Scots in 1651, and in See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SOU_STE/STAMFORD_HENRY_GREY.html   (665 words)

  
 George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer info here at en.88of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Delamer Delamer George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (or de la Mer) (August 1622 – 8 August 1684) was a British peer.
He was son of William Booth, a comrade of an ancient ancestry grooved at Dunham Massey in Cheshire, und of Vere Egerton, daughter und co-heir of Sir Thomas Egerton.
The earldom became extinct on the finis of the latters son, the 2nd earl, yonder male issue, in 1758, und the barony of Delamer terminated in the being of the 4th baron in 1770; the representation was revived in 1821 in the Cholmondeley family.
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 CHAPTER V
Sir William Drury was appointed Governor of the town of Bergen op Zoom in 1588 and much correspondence is extant in the muniments of the earl of Ancaster as to his actions in that capacity.
Alsoe unto the same Sir Henry Drury of Hudgley in Buckinghamshire, and for want of heirs males of his body to the foresaid Sir Drew Drury of Eiddlesworth in Norfolk, after the decease of my wife, the lands in Snarshall in Norfolk, and to the heires males of the sale Sir Drew Drury, if Wm.
I will that Sir Henry Drury or his heire joyned wt my wife shall receave the profits of my landes in Suffolke for the raysinge of five thousand pound to be payed unto a noble person whoe I have bin justly bound that acknowledgment for many favoures and assistances in my necessity.
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 Earl of Stamford's Regiment of Foot, 1st Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Henry Grey was created Earl of Stamford in 1628.
By the start of the war in 1642, Stamford had raised a regiment of foot and a troop of horse.
In May the head of Stamford's, Lt. Colonel Massey, was appointed General of the Western Association, and soon after the regiment reorganized for the New Model Army and became Colonel Charles Blunt's Regiment (Blunt was originally the 3rd Captain).
www.ecwsa.org /stamfords/stamfords.htm   (451 words)

  
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Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon
Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon
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 Worldroots.com
Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield and Louisa Barbara Catherine
Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough and Henrietta Anna
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Hon.
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 I24945: Robert Harley 1st Earl Of Oxford (5 DEC 1661 - 21 MAY 1724)
In 1701 Harley became Speaker of the House of Commons, and three years later, through the influence of John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, he was made a secretary of state for the northern part of the country.
Although Harley was at this time ostensibly a supporter of the Whig ministry, he began to influence Queen Anne against two of her principal ministers, Sidney Godolphin (1645-1712) and Marlborough.
He soon lost his influence with the queen, however, and the next year was replaced in office by a former friend, the statesman Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke.
web.ukonline.co.uk /nigel.battysmith/Database/D0006/I24945.html   (483 words)

  
 1673 info here at en.90of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
System Update #1673 Updated door locking/unlocking (and magic locking and unlocking) so even if you are close to the repop time for the door, it will not relock/unlock immediately, reversing what you just did, until the repop time after next.
Events January 22 - Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for conjoint thefts and coming from penal transportation March 18 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton pushs nip of New Jersey to the Quakers.
1641) August 21 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier October 13 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b.
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