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Two years afterwards , his father , being made one of the barons of the Exchequer in England , brought him away from his native country , and educated him in London . In 1631 he was sent to Oxford , where he was considered as a dreaming ...
Two years afterwards , his father , being made one of the barons of the Exchequer in England , brought him away from his native country , and educated him in London . In 1631 he was sent to Oxford , where he was considered as a dreaming ...
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He was afterwards admitted into the family of the Countess of Kent , where he had the use of a library ; and so much recommended himself to Selden , that he was often employed by him in literary ...
He was afterwards admitted into the family of the Countess of Kent , where he had the use of a library ; and so much recommended himself to Selden , that he was often employed by him in literary ...
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ROCHESTER JOHN WILMOT , afterwards Earl of Rochester , the son of Henry , Earl of Rochester , better known by the title of Lord Wilmot , so often mentioned in Clarendon's History , was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley in Oxfordshire .
ROCHESTER JOHN WILMOT , afterwards Earl of Rochester , the son of Henry , Earl of Rochester , better known by the title of Lord Wilmot , so often mentioned in Clarendon's History , was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley in Oxfordshire .
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