Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot: A Life of the Duke and Duchess of Tyrconnel, Volume 1Hutchinson, 1913 - 673 pages |
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Page 163 - Jermyn was brave, and certainly a gentleman, yet he had neither brilliant actions nor distinguished rank to set him off; and as for his figure, there was nothing advantageous in it. He was little : his head was large and his legs small ; his features were not disagreeable, but he was affected in his carriage and behaviour.
Page 89 - ... height, that, between the time he first saw her and the winter before the King's restoration, he resolved to marry none but her ; and promised her to do it...
Page 78 - Flanders, ready to do all that he should be required. He was a very handsome young man, wore good clothes, and was, without doubt, of a clear, ready courage, which was virtue enough to recommend a man to the duke's good opinion...
Page 116 - ... made it altogether popish. It would be no small comfort to me, if it had pleased God, it had been otherwise, that I might have enlarged my industry to do them good, and serve them, more effectually to them, and more safely to myself.
Page xiv - Masham was the daughter of one Hill, a merchant in the City, by a sister of my father. Our grandfather, Sir John Jenyns, had two-andtwenty children, by which means the estate of the family (which was reputed to be about 4000^. a year) came to be divided into small parcels. Mrs. Hill had only 500/. to her portion.
Page 71 - ... and came seldom into those • places where he was known, and so wandered into Germany and Flanders, and took all opportunities to be in the places where the king was ; and so he came to Cologne and Brussels and Bruges, and being a merry fellow, was the more made of for laughing at and contemning his brother the Jesuit, who had not so good natural parts, though by his education he had more sobriety, and lived without scandal in his manners. He went by the name of Tom Talbot, and after the king's...
Page 295 - Lord Tyrconnel should take so much pains to have some people believe, he would have put in at Holyhead if he could, when every body here knows the wind was so fair, that he might more easily have done it than have gone to Chester. But Captain Sheldon, who went over with him, hearing him speak so much in public, the morning he left this place, of stopping at Holyhead to see my Lord-Lieutenant, asked him...
Page 100 - ... his faction about the duke, lived in defiance of the chancellor ; and so imprudently, that they did him no harm, but underwent the reproach of most sober men. The king continued his grace towards him without the least diminution, and not only to him, but to many others who were trusted by him ; which made it evident that he believed nothing of what sir Charles Berkley avowed, and looked on him as a fellow of great wickedness : which opinion the king was long known to have of him before his coming...
Page 314 - this Scotch battalion which is newly come into England, has undone us ; the King is so pleased with it that he will have all his forces in the same posture. We have here a great many old men, and of different statures ; they must be all turned out, for the King would have all his men young and of one size.
Page 245 - Protestants, and against the opposition of the Pope and his creatures and Nuncios, if I had not been removed...