In 1607, the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell took their "flight" from Rathmullen in a small vessel.
Earls of Liverpool and Verulam, of the Countesses of Craven, Clarendon, and Caledon; Viscountess Milton, and Viscountess Folkestone.
The Catholic noblemen--the Earls of Derby, Shrewsbury, Bath, and Sussex were in the interest of Courtenay.
In this assembly, which was held annually, and sometimes twice a year, sat the earls and bishops and greater thanes, with the other officers of the crown.
John's older brother, William, had gone to America, and his uncle George had ceased working for the Earls of Selkirk because he had saved enough money to go to America.
JOHN PAUL JONES Along the banks of the River Dee, in Scotland, the Earls of Selkirk owned two castles.
The wives of the two great earls were as different as their lords.
It consisted of the Earls of Northampton and Suffolk on Lady Essex's side, and the Earl of Southampton and Lord Knollys on her husband's.
He was now the chief man in the kingdom, and when the older earls Leofric and Siward died his power increased yet more, and the latter part of Edward's reign was virtually the reign of Harold.
It fell into the hands of the northern earlsin 1563, and a garrison was maintained there after the rebellion was crushed.
This family were ancestors of the Murrays, Earls of Annandale; but the name of the representative, in the time of James IV.
The Committee of Estates, hearing that Airly had fled the country, directed the Earls of Montrose and Kinghorn to take possession of his castle, but in this, owing to the exceeding strength of the place, they did not succeed.
There were Earls in stars and garters, clergymen in cassocks and bands, pert Templars, sheepish lads from the Universities, translators and index makers in ragged coats of frieze.
Since the great northern Earls took up arms against Elizabeth seventy years had elapsed; and during those seventy years there had been no civil war.
William and Philip, Earls of Pembroke, were also among his patrons, and for the second he painted his great family picture, 'The Wilton Family.
Footnote 81: In his Britannia, in the list of the earls of Devonshire.
In the quarrel of the two roses, the earls of Devon adhered to the house of Lancaster; and three brothers successively died either in the field or on the scaffold.
One of their two kings, and five earls were there slain, together with many thousand pagans, who fell on all sides, covering with their bodies the whole plain of Ashdune.
The battle lasted a long time, and many fell on both sides, and also were drowned in the water; and both the earls were there slain.
At length one of the pagan earls was slain, and the greater part of the army destroyed; upon which the rest saved themselves by flight, and the Christians gained the victory.
The vacancy thus created was offered in turn to the Earls of Desmond and Ormonde, but they declined on the ground that if they were in Dublin they could not protect their own territories.
The Earls of Kildare and Desmond, however, came to Richard's aid, and they speedily secured the allegiance of the principal chieftains in Leinster and Munster.
He never dined without the society of earls and barons whom he had invited.
Fortunately one of the Danish earls took a fancy to the boy and saved him.
But the Irish power had been broken beyond retrieving when the earls fled, and O'Dogherty was soon a mere outlaw on his keeping.
The first act of rebellion was the attempt of the earls of Westmoreland and Northumberland.
When Cecil had read the letter, he laid it before the lord chamberlain and the earls of Worcester and Northampton.
A good cricketer, an excellent fellow, is worth all the earls in the peerage.
I have met sixearls there and a marquess,' quoth the other senior.
Containing, The Merry Pranks of The Earls of Warwick and Pembroke, Lord Rochester, Lord Mohun, &c.
A Poem, Addressed To the Right Honourable the Earls of Salisbury and Exeter.
Heithrek fought with Tyrfing and, as in the past, no-one could withstand it, for it cut through steel as easily as cloth; and the result was that he slew both the Earls and put all their army to flight.
He proceeded to make war on the Earls who had subdued King Harold's kingdom, and a stiff fight took place between them.
There were two Earls who had plundered the kingdom of King Harold and made it subject to them, and because he was old he paid them tribute every year.
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