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4 days ago · Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, was born in 1734, and was thus only 16 years old at his father's death. After that event he travelled on the Continent, and in 1752 obtained a cornetcy in the army.
5 days ago · In 1704, because it was thought that the office of constable could not be held separately from St. Briavels castle, the earl was reappointed as warden only with the power to hold the courts attached to the constableship: ibid. no. 10; General Ser. T, box 25, petition of earl of Berkeley to Queen Anne, and legal opinion.
4 days ago · These estates, together with many other properties formerly belonging to the abbey, were granted to Sir William Herbert, later Earl of Pembroke, in 1541. The grant was confirmed in 1544 and the properties have remained in the Pembroke family ever since.
12 hours ago · Henry VIII: July 1512, 18-31. Pages 592-609. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509-1514. Originally published by His Majesty ...
3 days ago · Henry Herbert Asquith was Prime Minister and the NHS was still a distant 32 years away when Dorothy Unitt came into the world in Sutton Coldfield on June 18, 1916. She moved to Birmingham, where...
2 days ago · 2. Magna Carta in the nineteenth century. A history of Magna Carta will often assert that the charter was rediscovered by Edward Coke in the seventeenth century, Footnote 25 how the multiple copies (i.e. the 1215 and 1225 versions of the charter) were reconciled by William Blackstone, Footnote 26 and then throughout the nineteenth century it develops a constitutional ‘totemic’ status.
4 days ago · Biography. Henry, born around 1115, was the son of David I (d.1153), king of Scots, and his wife Matilda (d.1131), widow of Simon (I) de Senlis. He was granted around 1136 Doncaster and the lordship of Carlisle, the honour and earldom of Huntingdon. In April 1139, King Stephen also confirmed him in the earldom of Northumberland.
