A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress (1880)
Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893, Fawcett, Benjamin, Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis) · London, Edinburgh, Dublin, William Mackenzie · leaf 225
on Hardwicke of 72 WIMPOLE HALL. Hardwicke, in the month of November of the same year. He was constituted LordHigh Chancellor of England 1736, and further raised in the Peerage in 1754 to theViscountcy of Royston and Earldom of Hardwicke. After him came his son,Philip Yorke, second Earl Hardwicke,… … CASSIOBURY PAEK, NEAR WATFORD, HERTFORDSHIRE. EARL OF ESSEX. Offa, King of Mercia, was the first possessor of these lands of whom we read, andthey were by him bestowed on the Abbey of St. Albans. On the demolition of themonasteries by King Henry the Eighth, that monarch granted the estate to…
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