Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 23Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1890 - Great Britain |
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... Papers , Dom . Retours , & c .; Hew Scott's Fasti Eccles . Scotic . 1639 , pp . 58 , 67 , 139 , 247 , 449 ) . pt . iii . p . 22 ; Baillie's Letters and Journals . A Gray was a strong royalist , and was impli- large collection of Gray's ...
... Papers , Dom . Retours , & c .; Hew Scott's Fasti Eccles . Scotic . 1639 , pp . 58 , 67 , 139 , 247 , 449 ) . pt . iii . p . 22 ; Baillie's Letters and Journals . A Gray was a strong royalist , and was impli- large collection of Gray's ...
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... Papers , Dom . 1628 , p . 58 ) . But the writer must have been mistaken , at least about the age of Gray . In the following year both Lord and Lady Gray were convicted of being popish recusants , and the lady's estates in Kent and ...
... Papers , Dom . 1628 , p . 58 ) . But the writer must have been mistaken , at least about the age of Gray . In the following year both Lord and Lady Gray were convicted of being popish recusants , and the lady's estates in Kent and ...
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... Papers , Dom . 1661 ) . She afterwards married Captain Mac- kenzie , son of Murdoch Mackenzie , bishop of Moray and Orkney . Gray was succeeded by his grandson , Patrick , the son of his daughter Anna . [ Acts of Parl . Scotl , vols ...
... Papers , Dom . 1661 ) . She afterwards married Captain Mac- kenzie , son of Murdoch Mackenzie , bishop of Moray and Orkney . Gray was succeeded by his grandson , Patrick , the son of his daughter Anna . [ Acts of Parl . Scotl , vols ...
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... papers , the titles of which occupy twenty - sophy , for having formed the largest zoolo- eight columns of the Royal Society's Cata- logue , while a privately printed List of Books , Memoirs , and Miscellaneous Papers , ' completed down ...
... papers , the titles of which occupy twenty - sophy , for having formed the largest zoolo- eight columns of the Royal Society's Cata- logue , while a privately printed List of Books , Memoirs , and Miscellaneous Papers , ' completed down ...
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... Papers , p . 3 ) . He re- turned to Scotland either in the train of Esme Stuart , afterwards Duke of Lennox , or shortly after the fall of Morton ( 1581 ) . Being reputed a catholic he was dealt with by the ministers of the kirk and ...
... Papers , p . 3 ) . He re- turned to Scotland either in the train of Esme Stuart , afterwards Duke of Lennox , or shortly after the fall of Morton ( 1581 ) . Being reputed a catholic he was dealt with by the ministers of the kirk and ...
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Page 118 - House, except in such things as in some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself...
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Page 25 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Page 18 - Gray, in deference to the Archbishop of Canterbury, acquiesced in his decision ; but after the conference was over fifty-five bishops joined in the following declaration : ' We the undersigned bishops declare our acceptance of the sentence pronounced upon Dr. Colenso by the metropolitan of South Africa, with his suffragans, as being spiritually a valid sentence.
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Page 118 - ... the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself, not by the low, pimping politics of a court, but to win his way to power, through the laborious gradations of public service ; and to secure himself a well-earned rank in parliament, by a thorough knowledge of its constitution, and a perfect practice in all its business.