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See also:BALTIMORE, See also:GEORGE See also:CALVERT, 1ST See also:BARON (C. 1580—1632) , See also:English statesman, son of Leonard Calvert, and Alice, daughter of See also:John Crosland of Crosland, was See also:born at See also:Kipling in See also:Yorkshire and educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. After travelling on the See also:continent, he entered the public service as secretary to See also:Robert See also:Cecil, afterwards See also:earl of See also:Salisbury. In 1606 he was appointed clerk of the See also:crown in See also:Connaught and See also:Clare, in r6o8 a clerk of the See also:council, and was returned to See also:parliament for Bossiney in 1609. He assisted See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. in his discourse against Vorstius, the Arminian theological See also:professor of See also:Leiden, and in 1613 took See also:charge of the See also:Spanish and See also:Italian See also:correspondence. The same See also:year he was sent on a See also:mission to See also:Ireland to investigate grievances. For these services he was rewarded by See also:knighthood in 1617, followed by a secretaryship of See also:state in 1619 and a See also:pension of £2000 a year in 162o. He represented successively Yorkshire (1621) and Oxford University (1624) in the See also:House of See also:Commons, where it See also:fell to him in his See also:official capacity to communicate the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's policy and to obtain supplies. He was distrusted by the parliament, and was in favour of the unpopular See also:alliance with See also:Spain and the Spanish See also:marriage. Shortly after the failure of the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme he declared himself a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and on the 12th of See also:February 1625 threw up his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, when he was created Baron Baltimore of Baltimore and received a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of large estates in Ireland. Henceforth .he was seen little in public See also:life and his See also:attention was directed to colonial enterprise, with which his name will be always associated. He had established a small See also:settlement in See also:Newfoundland in 1621, for which under the name of See also:Avalon he procured a See also:charter in 1623, and which he himself visited in 1627. In consequence of disputes and the unsuitable nature of the See also:climate he sailed thence for See also:Virginia, but was forbidden to See also:settle there unless he took the oaths of See also:allegiance and supremacy. He returned See also:home, and died on the 15th of See also:April 1632 before a new concession was secured, the charter of See also:Maryland passing the See also:great See also:seal on the 20th of See also:June 1632 in favour of his son Cecilius, second See also:Lord Baltimore, who founded the See also:colony. Baltimore married See also:Anne, daughter of George Mynne of Hurlingfordbury, See also:Hertfordshire, by whom he had six sons and five daughters. He wrote Carmen funebre in D. See also:Hen. Untonum (1596); The See also:Answer to Tom Tell-Troth . . . (1642) is also attributed to him, and See also:Wood mentions Baltimore as having composed " something concerning Maryland." His letters are to be found in various publications, including See also:Strafford's Letters, See also:Clarendon State Papers and the Calendars of State Papers.
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