The History of the Granville Family; Traced Back to Rollo, First Duke of Normandy. with Pedigrees, Etc

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... LADY GRACE GRANVILLE. WIFE OF SIR BEVILL GRANVILLE. From an Original Portrait, by Vamlycl; iu (he WellesbouiHe Cvlirction. Bevill not to embark in some perilous enterprise--was written at the opening of the great Civil War in 1642, but some of the expressions lead to the conclusion that it is to this Scotc'i expedition that it refers. For example, " my journey it is fixt." For fully eight months after the Civil War had broken out, the operations of the Royalists in Devon and Cornwall never took Bevill Granville more than fifty miles from Stowe. This could scarcely be called a "journey." Again, the expression, " If they be not prevented and mastered near their own homes they will be troublesome guests in yrs and in the remotest places ere long," implies that the homes of the enemy were at some distance rather than at the door of the writer, and so commingled that half the neighbours were friends and half foes, as was the case in the Great Rebellion. BEVILL GRANVILLE TO SIR JOHN TRELAWNY. Mo : hon : Sr-/. I have in many kinds had trial of your uoblenes, but iu none more then in this singular expression of yr kinde care & love. I give you also & yr excell: Lady humble thanks for yr respect unto my poor Woman, who hath been long a faithful and much obliged Servant of yr Ladies but Sr for my journey it is fixt. I caftot contain myself wtMn my doors when the K> of End' Standard waves in the field upon so just occasion, the cause being such as must make all those that dye in it little iuferiour to Martyrs. And for myne owne pl I desire to acquire an honest name or an honh1e grave. I never loved my life or ease so much as to shunn such an occasion wch if I should I were unworthy of the profession I have held, or to succede those Ances : of...