Gascoigne was born in 1540, in Essex, of an ancient family.
He was of an ancient family, and mingled from the first in the most fashionable circles.
He was the son of Judge Beaumont, and descended from an ancient family, which was settled at Grace Dieu in Leicestershire.
The inscription sets forth that he was descended from an ancient family in Staffordshire, was Poet Laureate and Historiographer in the reign of William III.
He derived his descent from an ancient family in Ireland; his fame and honours from his virtues and abilities.
He was of an ancient family in Buckinghamshire, was Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society; a great promoter of the Foundling Hospital, and well known to the world by his writings.
The author of Paradise Lost was descended of an ancient family of that name at Milton, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
This gentleman was the son of John Smith, an eminent Merchant at Knaresborough in the county of York, and descended from an ancient family of that name, seated at West-Herrington and Moreton House in the county pal.
Gervase Markham, who was the portionless younger son of a Nottinghamshire gentleman of ancient family, became the most voluminous miscellaneous writer of his age, using his pen apparently as his chief means of subsistence.
B] On the maternal side, Sir John Randolph was descended from the Ishams, an ancient family of Northamptonshire, in England, which had emigrated to the colony.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert was descended from an ancient family in Devonshire; his father was Otho Gilbert, Esq.
Caryl (an ancient family in those parts), by whom he had nine sonnes (most lived to be men) and four daughters.
I find by the Heralds' bookes that he is descended of an ancient family (vide Bibliothecam Sheldonianam[AZ], no.
A gentleman of an ancient family in Norfolk is almost out of his wits upon account of a greyhound, that after having been his inseparable companion for ten years, is at last run mad.
The Penningtons were an ancient family in Bodmin, resident there in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
To the north is the camp of Tregeare, where was once seated an ancient family of the same name, which died out in the reign of William of Orange with Richard Tregeare, sheriff of Cornwall.
The Blighs are an ancient family, connected with Devonshire and other parts of the West of England as well as with Ireland.
The Shaftoes are an ancient family settled at Bavington, in Northumberland, since the time of Edward I.
An ancient familyof Rutherfords; I believe, indeed, the most ancient now extant.
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