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Title: An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, : to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick : including the history and succession of the several Earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick Castle
Year: 1766 (1760s)
Authors: Edmondson, Joseph, d. 1786. cn
Subjects: Greville family Warwick, Earls of Warwick Castle
Publisher: London, printed : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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wherewith he had murdered his mafter. LordBrooke languifhed a few days with his wound, but before hedied ordered another fhort codicil to be added to his will, inwhich he left handfome legacies to the furgeons and otherswho attended him on this occafion. He died the 30th ofSeptember, 1628, in the 75th year of his age, and was bu-ried with great folemnity; fir William Segar, knight, garter ;fir Henry St. George, knight, Richmond herald ; and HenryChitting, efquire, Somerfet herald, direding the funeral. Hisbody was laid in his own vault, on the north fide of the choir,in the church of St. Mary at Warwick, under a monumentwhich he had ere6^ed himfelf, with this remarkable infcription : * Fulke Grevile, *« Servant to queen Elizabeth, Counfellor to king James, <« And friend to fir PhilipSidney (x). Trophsum peccati. (See the annexed plate.) Lord (t) Smiths Obituary, In Pecks (u) WoodsAthenpe, Oxen. vol. 1.Defiderata Curiofa, lib. 14. coll. 522..p. 12. (x) DugdalesWarwickfli. vol. I.
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Round the Verge of the TOMB. l.FVl,KE CtREVIL , SeRVA-NT TO Q VEEN ELIZABETH3C0VN- -CELLOR TO King 4 Iames and friend to SPhtlipSydney. TROPHie.V>I PECCATI. ( 8/ ) Lord Bacon gives us a fhort and laudable chara£ler of thisgreat man (y): but fir Robert Naunton furniflies us with thefollowing more ample and general character of him, as an emi-nent courtier of thofe times, where he muilers him amono^ftthe favourites of queen Elizabeth. His words are (z), * Sir* Fulke Grevile, lord Brooke, had no mean place in her^ favour : neither did he hold it for a fliort term; for, if I be not deceived, he had the longeft leafe, and the fmootheft* time, without any rub of any of her favourites. He came to the court in his youth and prime; for that is the time, or** never. He was a brave gentleman, and honourably de- fcended from Willoughby lord Brooke, and admiral to king Henry VH. Neither illiterate; for he was, as he would often profefs, a friend to fir Philip Sidney : and there are of* his, no

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