Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
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Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)
Tregellas, Walter H. (Walter Hawken)
Cornwall (England : County) -- Biography
Hobbes' do., 360.
his poetic skill, 361.
Sidney, 'Prime Minister,' 340, 362, 365-396.
is left £5,000 a year by
his brother, 362.
his birth and early days, 365.
goes to Spain and Holland, 366.
is made Privy Councillor,
and one of the 'Triumvirate,' i. 368.
becomes First Lord of the Treasury, 368.
is made Baron Godolphin of Rialton, 368.
James II. practises upon him, 369.
is made Chamberlain to the Queen, 369.
Second Commissioner to the Treasury, 369.
is selected to propose an 'accommodation' with William III., 369.
finds favour with William III., 370.
yearns to retire to Cornwall, 370.
marries Margaret Blagge, 374.
his letter to Evelyn on his
wife's death, 375.
political troubles, 378, 380.
is made one of the nine
Justices to manage England, 378.
leaves office for a while, 378.
is made Lord High Treasurer by Anne, 378.
effects the Union with Scotland, 379, 383.
his pseudonyms, 380 _note_, 381.
his secret correspondence with James II., 381.
his honours increase, 381, 386.
his connexion with Marlborough's Continental wars, 379, 382.
his portraits, 382, 391.
his North American Expedition, 383.
his weariness of office, 383, 386.
his share in the Conformity Bill, 384.
clamour against him, 384.
favours Walpole, 385.
loses favour with Anne, 386.
is dismissed from office, 387.
the shock to the national credit, 388.
his illness, death, and funeral, i. 389.
his appearance, manners, and character, 391-6.
Thomas, shot at the siege of Boulogne, 346.
marries first a Grenville, 347.
marries, second time, a Bonython, 347.
Colonel William, brother of young Sidney, 361.
Sir William, Vice Warden of the Stannaries (temp. Hen. VIII.), 342,
346.
Sir William, 351, 356.
his son, ambassador at Madrid, 351.
the friend of Locke, 351.
is suspected of treason, 352.
his will declared void, 352.
Sir William, made a baronet by Charles II., 362.
See also _Errata and Addenda_.
Godwin, a friend of Opie, ii. 255.
Goodere, Sir Edward, i. 314.
tragedy, the, concerning, i. 318.
Gordon, Duchess of, i. 260.
Gornard (or Gurney), Sir Richard, ii. 4.
Granville (see _Grenville_).
Granville, in Normandy, ii. 6.
Graynfylde, John, ii. 4.
Green, Anne, her horrible execution, ii. 129.
Green, J. R., his account of the support of the Royal cause by the
Cornish, ii. 57 _note_.
Grenfell, Miss, her relations with Martyn, ii. 232 and _passim_.
Grenfield, Henry, Master of Truro Grammar School, ii. 37.
Grenfield, Richard (temp. 1316), ii. 5.
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