See also:ARTHUR ANNESLEY See also:ANGLESEY
, 1st See also:EARL OF (1614-1686), See also:British statesman, son of the 1st See also:Viscount See also:Valentia (cr
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1621) and See also:Baron Mountnorris (cr
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1628), and of Dorothy, daughter of See also:Sir See also:John Philipps of See also:Picton See also:Castle, See also:Pembrokeshire, was See also:born at See also:Dublin on the loth of See also:July 1614, was educated at Magdalen See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and was admitted to See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1634
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Having made the See also:grand tour he returned to See also:Ireland; and being employed by the See also:parliament in a See also:mission to the See also:duke of See also:Ormonde, now reduced to the last extremities, he succeeded in concluding a treaty with him on the 19th of See also:June 1647, thus securing the See also:country from See also:complete subjection to the rebels
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In See also:April 1647 he was returned for See also:Radnorshire to the See also:House of See also:Commons
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He supported the See also:parliamentary as against the republican or See also:army party, and appears to have been one of the members excluded in 1648
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He sat in See also:Richard See also:Cromwell's parliament for Dublin See also:city, and endeavoured to take his seat in the restored Rump Parliament of 1659
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He was made See also:president of the See also:council in See also:February 166o, and in the See also:Convention Parliament sat for See also:Carmarthen See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough
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The anarchy of the last months of the See also:commonwealth converted him to royalism, and he showed See also:great activity in bringing about the Restoration
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He used his See also:influence in moderating See also:measures of revenge and violence, and while sitting in See also:judgment on the regicides was o1_ the See also:side of leniency
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In See also:November r66o by his See also:father's See also:death he had become Viscount Valentia and Baron Mountnorris in the Irish See also:peerage, and on the loth April 1661 he was created Baron Annesley of See also:Newport Pagnell in See also:Buckinghamshire and earl of See also:Anglesey in the peerage of Great See also:Britain
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He supported the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:administration in parliament, but opposed strongly the unjust measure which, on the abolition of the See also:court of wards, placed the extra See also:burden of See also:taxation thus rendered necessary on the See also:excise
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His services in the administration of Ireland were especially valuable
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He filled the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:vice-treasurer from 166o till 1667, served on the See also:committee for carrying out the See also:declaration for the See also:settlement of Ireland and on the committee for Irish affairs, while later, in 1671 and 1672, he was a leading member of various commissions appointed to investigate the working of the Acts of Settlement
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In February 1661 he had obtained a captaincy of See also:horse, and in 1667 he exchanged his vice-treasuryship of Ireland for the treasuryship of the See also:navy
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His public career was marked by great See also:independence and fidelity to principle
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On the 24th of July 1663 he alone signed a protest against the See also:bill " for the encouragement of See also:trade," on the plea that owing to the See also:free export of See also:coin and See also:bullion allowed by the See also:act, and to the importation of See also:foreign commodities being greater than the export of See also:home goods, " it must necessarily follow
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. . that our See also:silver will also be carried away into foreign parts and all trade fail for want of See also:money."' He especially disapproved of another clause in the same bill forbidding the importation of Irish See also:cattle into See also:England, a mischievous measure promoted by the duke of See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham, and he opposed again the bill brought in with that See also:object in See also:January
1 Protests of the Lords, by J
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E
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Thorold See also:Rogers (1875), i
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27: Carti's See also:Life of Ormonde (1851), iv
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234; Parl
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Hist. iv
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284
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1667
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This same See also:year his See also:naval accounts were subjected to an examination in consequence of his indignant refusal to take See also:part in the attack upon Ormonde;' and he was suspended from his office in 1668, no See also:charge,however, against him being substantiated
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He took a prominent part in the dispute in 1671 between the two Houses concerning the right of the Lords to amend money bills, and wrote a learned pamphlet on the question entitled The Privileges of the House of Lords and Commons (1702), in which the right of the Lords was asserted
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In April 1673 he was appointed See also:lord privy See also:seal, and was disappointed at not obtaining the great seal the same year on the removal of See also:Shaftesbury
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In 1679 he was included in Sir W
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See also:Temple's new-modelled council
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In the See also:bitter religious controversies of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Anglesey showed great moderation and See also:toleration
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In 1674 he is mentioned as endeavouring to prevent the justices putting into :orce the See also:laws against the See also:Roman Catholics and Nonconformists.' In the panic of the " Popish See also:Plot " in 1678 he exhibited a saner judgment than most of his contemporaries and a conspicuous courage
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On the 6th of See also:December he protested with three other peers against the m asure sent up from the Commons enforcing the disarming of all convicted recusants and taking See also:bail from them to keep the See also:peace; he was the only peer to dissent from the See also:motion declaring the existence of an Irish plot; and though believing in the See also:guilt and voting for the death of Lord See also:Stafford, he interceded, according to his own See also:account,' with the king for him as well as for See also:Langhorne and See also:Plunket
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His See also:independent attitude See also:drew upon him an attack by See also:Dangerfield, and in the Commons by the See also:attorney-See also:general, Sir W
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See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones, who accused him of endeavouring to stifle the See also:evidence against the Romanists
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In See also:March 1679 he protested against the second See also:reading of the bill for disabling See also:Danby
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In 1681 Anglesey wrote A See also:Letter from a See also:Person of See also:Honour in the Country, as a rejoinder to the earl of Castlehaven, who had published See also:memoirs on the Irish See also:rebellion defending the See also:action of the Irish and the Roman Catholics
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In so doing Anglesey was held by Ormonde to have censured his conduct and that of See also:Charles I. in concluding the " Cessation," and the duke brought the See also:matter before the council
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In 1682 he wrote The Account of See also:Arthur, Earl of Anglesey
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. . of the true See also:state of Your See also:Majesty's See also:Government and See also:Kingdom, which was addressed to the king in a See also:tone of censure and remonstrance, but appears not to have been printed till 1694.' In consequence he was dismissed on the 9th of See also:August 1682 from the office of lord privy seal
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In 1683 he appeared at the Old See also:Bailey as a See also:witness in See also:defence of Lord See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell, and in June 1685 he protested alone against the revision of Stafford's See also:- ATTAINDER (from the O. Fr. ataindre, ateindre, to attain, i.e. to strike, accuse, condemn; Lat. attingere, tangere, to touch; the meaning has been greatly affected by the confusion with Fr. taindre, teindre, to taint, stain, Lat. tingere, to dye)
attainder
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He died at his home at Blechingdon in See also:Oxfordshire on the 26th of April 1686, closing a career marked by great ability, statesmanship and business capacity, and by conspicuous courage and independence of judgment
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He amassed a large See also:fortune in Ireland, in which country he had been allotted lands by Cromwell
.
The unfavourable See also:character See also:drawn of him by See also:Burnet is certainly unjust and not supported by any evidence
.
See also:Pepys, a far more trustworthy See also:judge, speaks of him invariably in terms of respect and approval as a " See also:grave, serious See also:man," and commends his See also:appointment as treasurer of the navy as that of "a very notable man and understanding and will do things See also:regular and understand them himself."5 He was a learned and cultivated man and collected a celebrated library, which was dispersed at his death
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Besides the See also:pamphlets already mentioned, he wrote :—A True Account of the Whole Proceedings betwixt
.
. . the Duke of See also:Ormond and
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. . the Earl of Anglesey (1682); A Letter of Remarks upon lovian (1683); other See also:works ascribed to him being The King's Right of See also:Indulgence in Matters Spiritual
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. . asserted (1688); Truth Unveiled, to which is added a See also:short See also:Treatise on
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.
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See also:Transubstantiation (1676); The See also:Obligation resulting from the See also:Oath of Supremacy (1688); and
1 Carti's Ormonde, iv
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330, 340
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2 Cal. of State Pap
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Dom
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(1673-1675), p
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152
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Memoirs, 8, 9
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' By Sir J
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See also:Thompson, his son-in-See also:law
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Reprinted in See also:Somers Tracts (See also:Scott, 1812), viii
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344, and in Parl
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Hist. iv. app. xvi
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' See also:Diary (ed
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See also:Wheatley, 19.04), iv
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298, vii
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14.England's Confusion (1659)
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Memoirs of Lord Anglesey were published by Sir P
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Pett in 1693, but contain little See also:biographical See also:information and were repudiated as a, See also:mere imposture by Sit John Thompson (Lord Haversham), his son-in-law, in his See also:preface to Lord Anglesey's State of the Government in 1694
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The author however of the preface to The Rights of the Lords asserted (1702), while blaming their publication as "scattered and unfinished papers," admits their genuineness
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Lord Anglesey married See also:Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Altham of Oxey, See also:Hertfordshire, by whom, besides other See also:children, he had James, who succeeded him, Altham, created Baron Altham, and Richard, afterwards 3rd Baron Altham
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His descendant Richard, the 6th earl (d
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1761), See also:left a son Arthur, whose See also:legitimacy was doubted, and the peerage became See also:extinct
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He was summoned to the Irish House of Peers as Viscount Valentia, but was denied his See also:writ to the parliament of Great Britain by a See also:majority of one See also:vote
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He was created in 1793 earl of Mountnorris in the peerage of Ireland
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All the male descendants of the 1st earl of Anglesey became extinct in the person of See also:George, 2nd earl of Mountnorris, in 1844, when the titles of Viscount Valentia and Baron Mountnorris passed to his See also:cousin Arthur Annesley (1785-1863), who thus became loth Viscount Valentia, being descended from the 1st Viscount Valentia. the father of the 1st earl of Anglesey in the Annesley See also:family
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The 1st viscount was also the ancestor of the Earls Annesley in the Irish peerage
.
Dom.; State Trials, viii. and ix
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