Vicissitudes of Families And Other Essays
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During three-and-thirty years this singular personage, though so incompetent to manage his own affairs, sate in parliament to assist in managing those of the nation. By the end of that period he had completely dissipated his noble inheritance, and was compelled for nearly as long a term to subsist upon the charity of his friends and rela- tions. It has indeed been said that he was made one of the Poor Knights of Windsor, but his name does not ap- pear to have been enrolled amongst them. Be this... as it may, so little did the total wreck of his fortunes affect either his health or happiness, that he lived to the unusual age of one hundred and fifteen years, dying in 1711 :* *' My parks, my walks, my manors that I had, Even now forsake me ; and of all my lands, Is nothing left me but my body's length. " By a yet greater declension, the last of the Conyers, a race at one time so celebrated, ended his days in a workhouse; the noble blood of the Rokebys in York- shire ebbed out with a carpenter during the last century ; and at the beginning of the present the heir of the * The male line of Hungerford is extinct in England, but direct descendants of the old and illustrious stock may still be found in Ireland, their present representative being Thomas Hun- GEEFOED, Esq.
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During three-and-thirty years this singular personage, though so incompetent to manage his own affairs, sate in parliament to assist in managing those of the nation. By the end of that period he had completely dissipated his noble inheritance, and was compelled for nearly as long a term to subsist upon the charity of his friends and rela- tions. It has indeed been said that he was made one of the Poor Knights of Windsor, but his name does not ap- pear to have been enrolled amongst them. Be this... as it may, so little did the total wreck of his fortunes affect either his health or happiness, that he lived to the unusual age of one hundred and fifteen years, dying in 1711 :* *' My parks, my walks, my manors that I had, Even now forsake me ; and of all my lands, Is nothing left me but my body's length. " By a yet greater declension, the last of the Conyers, a race at one time so celebrated, ended his days in a workhouse; the noble blood of the Rokebys in York- shire ebbed out with a carpenter during the last century ; and at the beginning of the present the heir of the * The male line of Hungerford is extinct in England, but direct descendants of the old and illustrious stock may still be found in Ireland, their present representative being Thomas Hun- GEEFOED, Esq.
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