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PLYMOUTH, EARLS OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 861 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLYMOUTH, EARLS OF , a See also:title first See also:borne by See also:Charles (1657—168o), an illegitimate son of the See also:English See also:king Charles II. by Catharine Pegge, who was created See also:earl in 1675. The title became See also:extinct on his See also:death in See also:October 1680. In 1682 See also:Thomas See also:Windsor Hickman-Windsor, 7th See also:Baron Windsor de Stanwell (c. 1627—1687), who had fought for Charles I. at See also:Naseby, was created earl of Plymouth. His See also:father was Dixie Hickman of See also:Kew, See also:Surrey, and his See also:mother, See also:Elizabeth, was a See also:sister of Thomas Windsor, 6th Baron Windsor de Stanwell (1596—1641); having inherited the estates of his See also:uncle and taken the additional name of Windsor, the See also:abeyance of the See also:barony of Windsor de Stanwell was terminated in his favour and he became the 7th baron. From 16614663 he was nominally See also:governor of See also:Jamaica. His See also:grandson Other (1679—1725) was the 2nd earl, and the earldom became extinct when See also:Henry, the 8th earl, died in See also:December 1843. Called again out of abeyance, the barony of Windsor came in 18J5 to Harriet, a daughter of Other See also:Archer, the 6th earl (1789—1833), and the wife of See also:Robert Henry See also:Clive (1789—1854), a younger son of See also:Edward Clive, 1st earl of See also:Powis. She was succeeded in 186g by her grandson, Robert See also:George Windsor-Clive, who became the 14th Baron Windsor. After serving as paymaster-See also:general in 1891—1892 and first See also:commissioner of See also:works from 1902—1905, See also:Lord Windsor was created earl of Plymouth in 1905. i The Samoan Islanders unite the two conceptions: the entrance to their spirit-See also:land is at the westernmost point of the westernmost See also:island, where the ghosts descend by two holes into the under-See also:world. See also:Long ago the inhabitants of the See also:French See also:coast of the English Channel believed that the souls of the dead were ferried across to See also:Britain, and there are still traces of this belief in the folk-See also:lore of See also:Brittany (See also:Tylor, See also:Primitive Culture, ii.

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Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, ii. 694). In classical See also:mythology the underground Hades prevailed over the western. It was an See also:Etruscan See also:custom at the See also:foundation of a See also:city to dig a deep hole in the See also:earth and See also:close it with a See also:stone; 0n three days in the See also:year this stone was removed and the ghosts were then supposed to ascend from the See also:lower world. In See also:Asia See also:Minor caves filled with mephitic vapours or containing hot springs were known as Plutonia or Charonia. The most famous entrances to the under-world were at Taenarum in See also:Laconia, See also:Heraclea on the Euxine, and at the See also:Lake See also:Avernus in See also:Italy.

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