The Leigh Peerage: Being a Full and Complete History of the Claim of George Leigh, Esq. to the Dormant Title of Baron Leigh, of Stoneley, in the County of Warwick: Comprising a Report of the Evidence Taken Before the Lords' Committee for Privileges, with Notes, Analytical and Explanatory: and Certain Additional Evidence, Forming the Ultimatum to this Very Mysterious Case ...H. K. Causton, 1832 |
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... Latin- " Thomæ Leigh . " Mr. Attorney General . - What is the exact date of it ? The 13th of Charles the second , for the parliament holden on the 8th of May , 1661 . Lord Redesdale . - How came that into the dirty condition it is in ...
... Latin- " Thomæ Leigh . " Mr. Attorney General . - What is the exact date of it ? The 13th of Charles the second , for the parliament holden on the 8th of May , 1661 . Lord Redesdale . - How came that into the dirty condition it is in ...
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... latin - only where the donations were left . Were the donations in English ? Yes . But the inscription was in latin ? Yes . And you copied the words ? I copied the words exactly as they were inserted . You cannot recollect any of the ...
... latin - only where the donations were left . Were the donations in English ? Yes . But the inscription was in latin ? Yes . And you copied the words ? I copied the words exactly as they were inserted . You cannot recollect any of the ...
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... latin ; and I was in the habit of finding the cloth for the old people ; my father and I have found the cloth for above a century . He wanted this inscription to teach latin by it ? Yes , I believe so ; he wanted to get the English of ...
... latin ; and I was in the habit of finding the cloth for the old people ; my father and I have found the cloth for above a century . He wanted this inscription to teach latin by it ? Yes , I believe so ; he wanted to get the English of ...
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... latin or English ? Christopher Leigh was in English . Was the rest ? The rest ? -I cannot tell . Lord Chancellor . - The only name upon it was Christopher Leigh ? Yes , I recollect that . Sir James Scarlett . - That was the only ...
... latin or English ? Christopher Leigh was in English . Was the rest ? The rest ? -I cannot tell . Lord Chancellor . - The only name upon it was Christopher Leigh ? Yes , I recollect that . Sir James Scarlett . - That was the only ...
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... latin , perhaps ? The bottom part I could not read ; I have attempted to read it , but could not . Were they roman letters , or what sort of letters ? That I cannot recollect , it is so many years ago ; but in point of the monument , I ...
... latin , perhaps ? The bottom part I could not read ; I have attempted to read it , but could not . Were they roman letters , or what sort of letters ? That I cannot recollect , it is so many years ago ; but in point of the monument , I ...
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Page 36 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named testator, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page 21 - Princess, during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange...
Page 19 - Good repute and well known for his knowledge piety and morality be employed by the said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs of such survivor or their or his assigns...
Page 19 - New-Jersey, upon trust and confidence that they, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and...
Page 34 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the testator as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who in his presence, and at his request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page vi - Claudian's order to place his statue in their temple, Philo places in harvest, Josephus in seed-time ; both contemporary writers. No reader is led by this inconsistency to doubt, whether such an embassy was sent, or whether such an order was given. Our own history supplies examples of the same kind. In the account of the Marquis of Argyle's death, in the reign of Charles the Second, we have a very remarkable contradiction.
Page xli - ... upon and for such trusts, intents and purposes, and with, under and subject to such powers, provisoes and declarations, as...
Page 28 - Barwick and her assigns, for and during the term of her natural life, in augmentation of her jointure ; and from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them, the said J.
Page vi - Second, we have a very remarkable contradiction. Lord Clarendon relates that he was condemned to be hanged, which was performed the same day ; on the contrary, Burnet, Woodrow, Heath, Echard, concur In stating that he was beheaded; and that he was condemned upon the Saturday, and executed upon the Monday...
Page v - KNOW not a more rash or unphilosophical conduct of the understanding, than to reject the substance of a story, by reason of some diversity in the circumstances with which it is related. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth undercircumstantial variety.