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Title: The life of Edward Mountagu, K.G., first earl of Sandwich (1625-1672)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Harris, F. R. (Frank Reginald)
Subjects: Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1625-1672 Great Britain -- History Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 Great Britain -- History Restoration, 1600-1688 Great Britain -- History, Naval
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n. Sir Oliver. The nunnery was left un-altered, and upon its south-east side an Elizabethanmanor-house was gradually built. This jutted out ^ Bridges, Northafiiptotishire, ii. 349. It was from these Burdons that SirEdward Mountagn bought Boughton. 2 The following list of Prioresses is compiled from the Charters and Rolls inthe British Museum : Agnes ; Emma de Bideford ; Elena de Walsche (i.e.,Ellen Wells), fl. 1275; Alice de Barewyck, fl. 1312 ; Isabella, fl. 1348;Anna, fl. 1353; Joan Tychemers, fl. 1365-1389 ; Margaret Cave, fl. 1412 ;Anne Brynkley, fl. 1425-1447 ; Margaret Lyle, fl. 1452 ; Elizabeth Brandon,fl. 1455-1481 ; Alice Wylton, fl. 1509-1535. The dates are taken from leas es,etc. ; Elizabeth Brandon is the only Prioress whose exact date of installationis recorded. ^ Noble, Memoirs of the Protectoral House of Cromwell, dedicated to thefourth Earl of Sandwich (edition of 1787). The footnotes in Nobles bookindicate the contents of many deeds which were in the Earls possession.
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ROBERT CROMWELL FATHER OF OLIVER CROiMWELL From a portrait by Robert Walker To face p. 4 01 Vol. I i6oo) THE CROMWELLS 5 from the corner of the nunnery, and faced the mag-nificent Norman gateway. On the north front of thenew house two fine Tudor windows bore the Cromwellarms upon their stonework, and after Queen Eliza-beths frequent visits the royal cipher was added.That part of the house which faced the east wasadorned by a great bow-window, two stories high ;the royal arms crowned the whole, and under thesethe Cromwell arms were also quartered.^ The building and the upkeep of the new house,added to the cost of another considerable residence atRamsey, were the undoing of the Cromwells. Every-thing was done upon a scale of great magnificence.As Henry passed from one seat to the other, he threwlargesse out of the windows of his coach to the poorcountrymen who lined the roadside.^ Lavish enter-tainments given by him and by his son to Elizabethand James, when the royal guests received co

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