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3 days ago · Ordered, That the Trial of Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, upon the Impeachment of the House of Commons exhibited against him, and the Proceedings relating thereunto, be forthwith printed and published. Cary discharged.
4 days ago · In 1908 the Council erected a tablet on No. 14 recording the facts that William Etty and Clarkson Stanfield had lived there and that Samuel Pepys and Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, had occupied the house formerly on the site. n14. "About six o'clock a fire broke out in Buckingham Street, York Buildings, near the Adelphi, by which two large ...
2 days ago · Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer: 1661–1724 1712 Lord High Treasurer 523 Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford: 1672–1739 1712 First Lord of the Admiralty 524 Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough: c. 1658–1735 1713 Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire
3 days ago · Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford (more) A great revulsion and war weariness now took hold of the country. Parliament voted to disband most of the military establishment, including William’s own Dutch guards, and a vigorous public debate against the existence of a standing army ensued.
5 days ago · From their country houses, the Tories opposed an expensive land war and favoured the “blue sea” strategy of dominating the Atlantic and Mediterranean shipping lanes. Their leaders had a self-destructive streak. Only Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, was a politician of the first rank, and he always shrank from being labeled a Tory. The Tories ...
Oct 1, 2024 · They had the following sons: Robert (d.1217), who married Hawise, daughter of Hugh, earl of Chester, with whom he had one daughter, Margaret; Roger (d.1264), who would inherit the earldom of Winchester; another Robert, who married Helen, daughter of Llewelyn ab Iorwerth, prince of Gwynedd (d.1240) and widow of John the Scot, earl of Chester and Huntingdon; and three daughters, Hawise, who ...
3 days ago · A house called the Blue Boar in 1660 which was an ale- house by 1743 had apparently been the George c. 1500; another, called the Lion in 1678, was certainly an alehouse by 1751. (fn. 96) The Blue Boar was largely demolished c . 1841, although its late 15th-or early 16th-century parlour wing has been identified at No. 93 High Street, (fn. 97) and by 1851 the Lion was the Lion and Boar.
