Category: History - British
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His son John--third of the name--seems to have been, according to some contemporary accounts, a man of no very high character; in fact, he has been stigmatized as 'a pirate,' an...
11. Part 11Whilst he lay dying of his wound at St. Malo, some priests tried to convert him to the Roman faith; but he would have nothing to say to them, and sent for a clergyman of his own...
2. Part 2Sir Richard, then, was born in 1540; and, when only sixteen years of age, served in Hungary, under the Emperor Maximilian, against the Turks, and was present with Don John of Au...
17. Part 17The fire of genius having been kindled by the butterfly episode, was soon fanned into a flame by the intense and daring spirit of the boy. Going with his father to carry out som...
6. Part 6In the following month, however, he made another attempt--this time successfully--to reach Edinburgh; and after a long and tedious voyage, arrived at Honfleur on the 19th March-...
12. Part 12'To King's playhouse: saw Bartholomew Fayre. I chanced to sit by Tom Killigrew, who tells me that he is setting up a nursery: that is, is going to build a house in Moorefields,...
7. Part 7'Nowhere was the Royal cause to take so brave or noble a form as among the Cornishmen. Cornwall stood apart from the general life of England: cut off from it not only by differe...
5. Part 5'It grieves me to think how chargeable your family is, considering your occasion. It hath this many years troubled me to think to what passe it must come at last, if it run on a...
18. Part 18'What the devil is the reason that thou art in such a fright, indeed what should make thee suspect the contrary? My not having written is the very thing that ought to have kept...
10. Part 10John Killigrew, the first Captain of Pendennis, had three brothers, James, Thomas, and Bennet, of whom I can learn nothing of interest. And he also had other sons than John the...
20. Part 20'With the death of his wife, Sir John's interest in country life came to an end; and leaving his son to the care and instruction of his old friend at Ludgvan, he set out for a f...
22. Part 22His next great stride was the new 'pole-puffer-engine' of 1816, in connection with which squabbles arose between the engineer and his relations, Henry Harvey and Andrew Vivian,...
23. Part 23The nest of the Vivian family was Truro; here our hero was born, and here resided his father, John Vivian, who may be called the founder of the copper trade in Cornwall, and who...
14. Part 14[84] On April 8th, 1663, at the New Theatre in Drury Lane, the prices of admission were: boxes, 4s.; pit, 2s. 6d.; middle gallery, 1s. 6d.; upper gallery, 1s. The play began at...
8. Part 8He retired from Covent Garden in 1815--when he took a parting benefit at the Italian Opera House; but, like so many other public favourites, he made several 'last appearances' o...
16. Part 16'Through shallow heads and voluble tongues, such a creed (or indeed any creed) filtrates so easily, that, of the multitudes who maintain it, comparatively few are aware of the c...
15. Part 15'In memory of Richard Lemon Lander, the discoverer of the source of the Niger, and the first Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society.[101] He was born at Truro, in 1804...
19. Part 19[117] Writing to Southey, from Norwich, 3rd June, 1806, William Taylor says, 'Opie is soon to be knighted;' and in 1807 he says that Opie had been at the point of death from abd...
21. Part 21So much as the foregoing seemed necessary in order to rightly estimate Trevithick's position and surroundings when he had arrived at the age of twenty-six. But it will now be de...
3. Part 3'On the brow of a lofty hill,[19] crested with stag-horned trees, commanding a deep and woodland gorge wherein "the Crooks of Combe" (the curves of a winding river) urge onward...
13. Part 13'The Seamen's Victory, or _Admiral Killigrew's_ glorious conquest over the French Fleet, in the Streights, as they were coming from Thoulon towards Brest. With the manner of Tak...
24. Part 24His subsequent connexion with the Waterloo campaign may be briefly summed up in the statements that he led the advanced guard of the British army all the way from Waterloo to th...
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4. Part 4'In this manner the fight begun: the King's forces pressing, with their utmost vigour, up the hill, and the enemies as obstinately defending their ground. The fight continued wi...
26. Part 26GRENVILLE FAMILY, i. 87, 114, 191, 340, 345; ii. 3-85, 281-283. a true Norman-Cornish family, ii. 3-5, 6. their portraits, 82 _note_. their coat of arms, 5 _note_, 6 _note_. var...
27. Part 27Lister, Martin, his connection with the Killigrews, ii. 131. his amusing letter to the Steward at Arwenack, ii. 133. his squabbles with the Falmouth Corporation, 135. his death,...
25. Part 25Charles I., his letter of thanks to the County of Cornwall, ii. 38. is nearly shot at Fowey, ii. 43 _note_. his letter of thanks to Sir Bevill Grenville, ii. 49.
28. Part 28TREVITHICK, RICHARD, i. 255, 260 _note_; ii. 307-341. his biography by his son, ii. 307. original residence of his family, ii. 310. his father a skilful engineer, 310-312, 317....