Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 5W. and R. Chambers, 1868 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... Earl Godwyne , and by a great inundation of the sea , they weare taken therfroe , at which tyme also much harme was done in Scotland and Flanders , by the same rage of the water . ' At the period of the Conquest by William of Normandy ...
... Earl Godwyne , and by a great inundation of the sea , they weare taken therfroe , at which tyme also much harme was done in Scotland and Flanders , by the same rage of the water . ' At the period of the Conquest by William of Normandy ...
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... EARLS OF GORDON . - Elizabeth of Gordon , the heiress of Sir Adam , married before 1408 Alexander of Seton ( the son of Sir William of Seton ) , who , before 1437 , who took the name of Gordon , was made Earl of was created Lord of ...
... EARLS OF GORDON . - Elizabeth of Gordon , the heiress of Sir Adam , married before 1408 Alexander of Seton ( the son of Sir William of Seton ) , who , before 1437 , who took the name of Gordon , was made Earl of was created Lord of ...
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... EARLS OF SUTHERLAND . - About the year 1512 , Adam Gordon of Aboyne , second son of the second Earl of Huntly , married Elizabeth , the heiress of Sutherland , and in her right became Earl of Suther- land . Neither he nor his wife , it ...
... EARLS OF SUTHERLAND . - About the year 1512 , Adam Gordon of Aboyne , second son of the second Earl of Huntly , married Elizabeth , the heiress of Sutherland , and in her right became Earl of Suther- land . Neither he nor his wife , it ...
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... Earl of seeing I had no known friend in any foreign place . ' Aberdeen , Viscount of Formartine , Lord Haddo , A ship from Aberdeen landed him at Danzig in Methlic , Tarves , and Kellie . He died in 1720 , with the summer of 1651 , and ...
... Earl of seeing I had no known friend in any foreign place . ' Aberdeen , Viscount of Formartine , Lord Haddo , A ship from Aberdeen landed him at Danzig in Methlic , Tarves , and Kellie . He died in 1720 , with the summer of 1651 , and ...
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... Earl of Aberdeen ' ( 1852 ) , and the Provost trade in agricultural produce . Pop . ( 1861 ) 2673 . may be mentioned . of Peterhead ' ( 1853 ) . The last picture , which is • G. carries on a considerable the property of the Merchant ...
... Earl of Aberdeen ' ( 1852 ) , and the Provost trade in agricultural produce . Pop . ( 1861 ) 2673 . may be mentioned . of Peterhead ' ( 1853 ) . The last picture , which is • G. carries on a considerable the property of the Merchant ...
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