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Topic: John Montagu, Viscount Hinchinbrook


  
  Pepys' Diary: Hinchingbroke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Hinchinbroke was Sir Edward Montagu’s seat, from which he afterwards took his second title.
The knight, who was renowned for, his hospitality, had the honour of entertaining King James at Hinchinbroke, but, getting into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to sell his estates, which were conveyed, July 28th, 1627, to Sir Sidney Montagu of Barnwell, father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose descendant they are still vested.
Pepys, politics and the Montagus at Hinchinbrooke (1627-1962)
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