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	John Charles Herries - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Charles Herries (1778–1855) was an English politician and financier and a frequent member of Tory and Conservative cabinets in the early to mid 19th century.
		Herries was one of few men of ministerial experience to side with the protectionist Tories after the repeal of the Corn Laws.
		Following the death of Lord George Bentinck in 1848, Herries was suggested by Lord Stanley as an alternative to Benjamin Disraeli as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/John_Charles_Herries (215 words)

	Lord Herries of Terregles - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lord Herries of Terregles (pronounced "Heh-reez of Terry-glaze") is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.
		The seventh Lord inherited the title Earl of Nithsdale, and the titles remained united until the fifth earl was attainted in 1616.
		Andrew Herries, 2nd Lord Herries of Terregles (c.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Lord_Herries_of_Terregles (212 words)

	john charles herries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Charles Herries (1778 - 1855) was an English politician and financier and a frequent member of Tory cabinets in the early to mid 19th century.
		Herries was one of few men of ministerial experience to side with the protectionist Tories after the repeal of the Corn Laws.
		Following the death of Lord George Bentinck in 1848, Herries was suggested by Lord Stanley as an alternative to Benjamin Disraeli as Leader of the House of Commons.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /john_charles_herries.html (253 words)

	John Charles Herries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Charles Herries (1778–1855) was an English politician and financier and a frequent member of Tory and Conservative cabinets in the early to mid 19th century.
		Following the death of Lord George Bentinck in 1848, Herries was suggested by Lord Stanley as an alternative to Benjamin Disraeli as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
		Ironically enough his son, Charles Herries, was appointed Chairman of the Inland Revenue Board by Disraeli during the latter's second premiership in 1877.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Charles_Herries (215 words)

	History of the Burgh of Dumfries - Chapter XXIII
		A remarkable letter from Lord Herries, addressed by him on the Queen’s behalf to Lord Scrope and Sir Francis Knollys, is preserved in the State Paper Office, in which he inveighs strongly against the detention of his royal mistress, and exposes the duplicity of Elizabeth.
		Lord Herries, towards the close of life, embraced the Protestant faith, which he was so nearly doing at the outset of his public career; and he was honoured with the confidence of King James.
		John, fourth Lord Herries, was one of the ablest Scotchmen of his day; and while on some occasions he was vacillating and inconsistent, his character exhibited many points of excellence which we cannot but admire.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/dumfries/history23.htm (2750 words)

	THE MAXWELLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lord Maxwell, besides the offices of Master of the Royal Household, and Chief Carver to the King, obtained large grants of land in the counties of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Roxburgh, Perth, and Lanark.
		Lord Maxwell and his uncle attended the Parliament held in the name of the Queen at Edinburgh, June 12, 1571, in opposition to the meeting convened by the Earl of Lennox, the Regent, a few weeks earlier, at the head of the Canongate.
		Lord Maxwell became closely associated with the royal favourites, Esme Stewart, Lord d'Aubigny, and the profligate and unprincipled Captain James Stewart, afterwards Earl of Arran, the bitter enemies of Regent Morton, by whom he was brought to the block.
	www.burkes-scotland.com /sites/scotland/esnews/es1202a.asp (2387 words)

	MyClan.com : Armigerous Clan Herries Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir Herbert Herries of Terregles was arrested with Murdoch, Duke of Albany, in 1425, and after his later release sat as one of the duke’s jurors.
		Sir Herbert Herries of Terregles, great-great-grandson of the first Sir Herbert, was created a Lord of Parliament with the title of ‘Lord Herries’ in 1489.
		His son, Andrew, the second Lord Herries, was slain along with many others of the nobility at the ill-fated Battle of Flodden in 1513.
	www.myclan.com /clans/Herries_223/default.php (348 words)

	Summitville, Indiana bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lord Herries of Terregles is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.
		Lord Balfour of Burleigh is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.
		Lord Napier of Merchistoun is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.
	www.elexi.de /en/s/su/summitville__indiana.html (625 words)

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		Herries rode with the queen into England in May 1568, and he and John Lesley, bishop of Ross, were her chief commissioners at the conferences at York.
		He continued to labour in Mary's cause after returning to Scotland, and was imprisoned by the regent Murray; he also incurred Elizabeth's displeasure by harbouring the rebel Leonard Dam-es, but he soon made his peace with the English queen.
		William was deprived of his honours in 1716, but in 1858 the House of Lords decided that his descendant William Constable-Maxwell (1804–1876) was rightly Lord Herries of Terregles.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=32495 (327 words)

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		Lord Grey said a few words on presenting a petition expressing a hope to be convinced on the subject of the Franchise Bill, but laying ground for voting against it.
		Opposed by the Duke of Richmond, Lord Malmesbury, Winchelsea, and Clanricarde.
		Lord Heytesbury only observed that 'it was a resumption of belligerent rights.' This Count Nesselrode did not deny, and he said they could not long remain in the false position in which they now were in the Mediterranean.
	www.gutenberg.net /1/0/6/9/10693/10693.txt (22657 words)

	Landed Family and Estate Papers Subject Guide
		John, 4th Lord Maxwell, was killed at Flodden in 1513 and his son, Robert, 5th Lord Maxwell (d.1546) was warden of the western marches and his commission by James V as master of the royal household is in the collection.
		His grandson, William Maxwell, 14th Lord Maxwell, 9th Lord Herries and 5th earl of Nithsdale (1676-1744) was a Jacobite whose wife dressed him in women's clothes to effect his escape from prison.
		Marmaduke Constable Maxwell, 11th Lord Herries (1837-1908) married Angela Mary Charlotte Fitzalan Howard who was the daughter of Edward George Fitzalan Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Glossop and 2nd son of the 13th duke of Norfolk (1818-1883).
	www.hull.ac.uk /arc/collection/landedfamilyandestatepapers/maxwell.html (1640 words)

	Maxwell - A Scottish Borders Chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the previous year Maxwell had been created Lord Herries and Herries had become the Queen's staunchest supporter - even although one of the Lords of Court commented that "Herries was the cunning and wisest of the whole faction; but, as the Queen says of him, there is nobody can be sure of him".
		Herries tried on Mary's request to see Elizabeth and he journeyed south for that reason but was refused audience by the English Queen.
		Herries, for his loyalty to the Queen suffered the devastation of much of his property, but himself survived to continue to serve his country.
	www.abstractconcreteworks.com /caerlaverock/highlander-article.html (1716 words)

	Clan Scott
		Anne, Countess of Buccleuch, to whom the earldom and the chiefship of the clan passed after the deaths of her father, 2nd Earl, in 1651 and subsequently of her elder sister, married James, Duke of Monmouth (1649-1685), illegitimate son of King Charles II, in 1673, when they were made Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch.
		Walter Scott of Harden (d.1629) was a notorious cattle-rustler, of whom it is said that when the last beast of a particular haul had been eaten, his wife would serve him a dish on which was a pair of clean spurs, indicating that the larder should be replenished.
		His first wife was Mary, "Flower of Yarro", and from them descended the Hepburne-Scotts, lords Polwarth, and Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), 1st Laird of Abbotsford, poet and novelist, historian and folklorist, and instigator of much of the modern Highland and tartan image.
	www.highlandtraveller.com /clans/scott.html (388 words)

	Tree of the family of Maxwell of Breckonside
		James Maxwell of Breckonside was second son of John Lord Herries by Elizabeth, daughter of John, sixth Lord Maxwell, Earl of Morton.
		Lord Herries (Sir John’s great grandson and brother to Breckonside) succeeded to the Estates and Earldom of Nithsdale in 1667.
		Alexander Herries Maxwell, having died without issue, and the sons of his brother William, having all predeceased him, he was succeeded by his niece Clementina Herries Maxwell of Munshes, who had married John Maxwell, eldest son of Wellwood Maxwell of Barncleugh, he cousin, and has issue viz.
	www.buittle.org.uk /maxwells.htm (2351 words)

	Maxwell Family Page 2
		John, Lord Maxwell in the reign of King James IV was imprisoned for lawlessness but later died with his King at Flodden in 1513.
		In 1581, John, Lord Maxwell was created Earl of Morton after the execution of the Douglas holder, he was killed in an engagement with the Johnstons in 1593.
		The 5th Earl joined the Jacobite Rising of 1715 and was captured and sentenced to death, he escaped from the Tower of London dressed in female attire and then he escaped to Rome where he was forced to live in poverty until his death.
	www.ramshornstudio.com /maxwell_2.htm (532 words)

	maxwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lord Herries - Lord Herries of Terregles is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.
		The seventh Lord inherited the title Earl of Nithsdale, and the titles remained united unti...
		Maxwell Bodenheim - Maxwell Bodenheim (1893 - 1954) was the author of Naked on Roller Skates.
	www.serebella.com /search/topic-maxwell.html (435 words)

	The Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Chapter 8
		Lord James Herries, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was a short, dark, sturdy man with a very sallow face and a very sullen manner, which contrasted with the gorgeous flower in his buttonhole and his festive trick of being always slightly overdressed.
		He was charged with expediting the government pledge, along with the concerted military plans, to the half-mutinous command in the west; and the still more urgent task of seeing that it did not fall into the hands of the enemy, who might appear at any moment from the east.
		Lord James clutched the back of a chair, as if to steady himself, and, sitting down abruptly at the table, littered with the last meal, poured himself out a tumbler of brandy and drank it.
	www.online-literature.com /chesterton/man_knew_much/8 (7013 words)

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		The small junior branch of Herries to which he belonged, although allied to the great family of Howard and, on another side, to the Herries of Lowland Scotland, was the subject of his simple and even spiritual worship.
		Herries, we will consider it.' 'It is sad,' Nicholas answered, 'for your excellent father to have had such a coward for a son.' On that word both daggers were out.
		Sir Michael Herries himself, being a stout and determined Lutheran, would not have tolerated him, but the active hunting of priests had not yet begun and Elizabeth's own tactics of compromise and toleration were still very generally practised.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /ebooks04/0400531.txt (21855 words)

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		Lord Savoy, his son, young Lambton, Lady Petres, and her daughters, Mrs.
		It was just what he predicted in his letter to La Ferronays, and what Lord Dudley afterwards said in a letter to Lièven; the success of the Russians was the dissolution of an Empire which could not be reconstituted.
		The terms as to the navigation of merchantmen, their not being searched in a Turkish port, the refusal of acquiescence in the demands of the Russian Minister where any injury is pretended to have been done to a Russian, to be _just ground for reprisal_, &c., are of a nature intolerable to an
	www.gutenberg.net /1/0/6/9/10693/10693-8.txt (22656 words)

	THE TRAGEDY OF COMLONGON CASTLE
		On 21 Mar 1557, the uncle of the two girls Charles Murray of Cockpool and his brothers Archibald and Cuthbert wrote to the Lords of the Counsel stating that the two girls were now past the age of 14 and lodging a protest against Sir James Douglas of Drumlanrig.
		The Lords demanded that Douglas bring the girls to Edinburgh and show the Counsel whether they were kept in "thraldome" or not and so the Counsel could see to it that they were set at liberty.
		On 1 Feb 1562/63, John, Lord Borthwick appeared with Marion before the Queen and Council and said that since she was his friend and kinswoman, he would take her into his care for the next 40 days.
	members.cox.net /jennahawk/marioncarruthers.html (862 words)

	annan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Port Street, some of the windows remain blocked up to avoid paying the window tax.
		Nearby, John Maxwell, 4th Lord Herries, built Hoddom Castle (circa 1552 - 1565).
		Annan Castle formed the original home of the 'de Brus' family, later known as "Bruce", which most famously produced Robert the Bruce.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /annan.html (213 words)

	Herries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Maxwell, second son of Robert, fifth Lord Maxwell, married Agnes Herries, eldest heiress of the Herries title and estates, in 1547, and acquired the title, through purchase, of the lands held by her sisters, thus consolidating the family holdings.
		Three generations later, the male line of the Lords Maxwell died out, and John Maxwell, seventh Lord Herries, became the twelfth Lord Maxwell and the third Earl of Nithsdale.
		When the titles merged in one person in 1667, Lord Maxwell became chief, in fact, of the Herries family, although they may have recognized a Maxwell chiefship before that date.
	www.clanmaxwellusa.com /herries.htm (123 words)

	Amazon.com: "Lord James": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They say Lord James's mother, Lady Douglas, is a witch, and used her spells to bind the King to her, and Patrick, third Lord...
		The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots: The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Jane E. Dawson (Author)
		Lord Lorne, as Archibald was then known, along with his brother-in-law Lord James Stewart, commendator prior of St Andrews, and his cousin John Erskine, 6th Lord Erskine, went to listen to Knox.
	amazon.com /phrase/Lord-James (537 words)

	ipedia.com: Lord Herries Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert Maxwell, 4th Earl of Nithsdale, 8th Lord Herries (d.
		William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale 9th Lord Herries (d.
		Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard 16th Duke of Norfolk, 13th Lord Herries (1908-1975)
	www.ipedia.com /lord_herries.html (173 words)

	Re: John Maxwell m to Agnes Herries
		He was the second son of Robert Lord Maxwell who was the head of the house of Maxwell.
		The eldest son was Lord Maxwell after him and his son John Lord Maxwell became the Earl of Morton on the execution of the Regent, James Douglas, Earl of Morton in 1581.
		I would imagine descent from Sir James Johnstone would be hard to prove as the current Earl of Annandale and his father spent many years and hundreds of thousands of pounds in the courts and the House of Lords trying to prove their claim to the Earldom.
	genforum.genealogy.com /maxwell/messages/5438.html (191 words)

	maxwell02
		Agnes Herries (b c1534, d 14.03.1593-4, dau of William Herries, 3rd Lord of Terregles)
		Elizabeth Maxwell (a 12.1639, dau of John Maxwell, 8th Lord of Carlaverock, 'Earl of Morton')
		Their eldest son's eldest son became 10th Lord Herries of Terregles.
	www.stirnet.com /html/genie/british/mm4ae/maxwell02.htm (932 words)

	GENUKI: Seaton Ross Parish information from Bulmers' 1892.
		From his descendants it passed to the family of Ross, but was again forfeited with other estates by the fidelity of Thomas, Lord Ross, to the House of Lancaster.
		The living is a vicarage, worth £95 a year, including glebe land, in the gift of Lord Herries, and held by the Rev. Edmund Wm.
		Henry Watson, of Thorpe Arch, but a native of this parish, by will dated 20th February, 1873, bequeathed the sum of £150, the interest thereof to be distributed yearly among the poor of the parish of Seaton Ross about Christmas time.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/YKS/ERY/Seatonross/Seatonross92.html (695 words)

	Definition of Lord Herries
		Lord Herries of Terregles is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.
		Robert Maxwell, 4th Earl of Nithsdale, 8th Lord Herries (d.
		William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale 9th Lord Herries (d.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Lord_Herries (175 words)

	History of Hoddom Castle - Scottish Castles
		The lands of Hoddom were originally part of the Herries barony but did not form part of that which he got with his bride Agnes Herries and the lands had to be bought from her sister Catherine, wife of Alexander Stewart of Garlies.
		The castle is less then half mile from the watch tower of Repentance and it seems the two were built in tandem the former to support the latter.
		The castle was sold to Murray of Cockpool in 1626 by Sir John's grandson, William, Lord Herries.
	www.hoddomcastle.co.uk /history.html (498 words)

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