Descriptive And Historical Notices of Some Remarkable Northumbrian Castles Chu
Descriptive And Historical Notices of Some Remarkable Northumbrian Castles Chu
William Sidney Gibson
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He was very cha- ritable to poor and distressed families on all occasions, whether known to him or not, and whether Papist or Pro- testant. '" It is no wonder, therefore, that he was regarded with the affectionate homage of men of every rank and creed — a homage of the heart, far before the blind respect which the vulgar of all ranks too commonly pay to wealth and power. He appears to have taken great delight in rural pursuits, in the pleasures of the chase, and in the charms of Nature by which... he was surrounded, and could have said with Horace — * * * " Ego laudo ruris amseni Rivos, et musco circumlita saxa nemusque. " But other charms soon cast their spell upon the youth- ful Earl, and he found his happiness incomplete without "woman's love. " Accordingly, on the 10th July, 1712, wdien he had completed his 23rd year, he espoused Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir John Webb, of Canford, in the county of Dorset, Baronet, " and Barbara his wife, sole heiress of her [father, John Bellasyse, baron of Worlaby, in Lincolnshire, l3y the Lady Anne, daughter of John, late Marquis of Winchester.
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