 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1839 - 372 Seiten
...in the year 1589, and many years since; who was married in Edward IVth's time, and held her joynture from all the Earls of Desmond since then ; and that this is true all the noblemen and gentlemen of Munster can witness. "f Horace Walpole, in his Historic Doubts of the reign of Richard III., brings... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 Seiten
...old countess of Desmond, who lived in 1589, and many years since, was married in Kdward the Fourth's time, and held her jointure from all the earls of Desmond since then. Raleigh't Hirten/ of the World. There's a civil question used of late, Where lies my jointure, where... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 484 Seiten
...was acquainted with "the old Countess of Desmond of Inchiquin, who was married in Edward the Fourth's time, and held her jointure from all the Earls of...that this is true, all the noblemen and gentlemen of Munster can witness." Lord Orford has a curious paper of inquiry, which comes under the head of... | |
 | Richard Sainthill - 1844 - 548 Seiten
...year 1589, and many years since ; who was married in Edward the Fourth's time, and held her joynture from all the Earls of Desmond since then ; and that this is true, all the noblemen and gentlemen of Munster can witness." Horace Walpole, in his Historic Doubts of the Reign of Richard III. page 102,... | |
 | 1853 - 566 Seiten
...Inchiquin, who lived in the year 1589, and many years since, who was married in Edward the Fourth's time, and held her jointure from all the Earls of...that this is true, all the noblemen and gentlemen of Munster can witness." Her holding her jointure from all the Earls would imply that her husband was... | |
 | 1853 - 576 Seiten
...and many years since, who was married in Edward the Fourth's time, and held her jointure from all ike Earls of Desmond since then ; and that this is true, all the noblemen and gentlemen of Minister can witness." Her holding her jointure from all the Earls would imply that her husband... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1854 - 354 Seiten
...lived to the age of one hundred and forty-five years. Some would make her one hundred and sixty-two, or three. " I knew the old Countess," says Sir Walter...two years before the publication of the History of World ; she must have been no less than one hundred and forty-five years of age — that is, the same... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1854 - 358 Seiten
...make her one hundred and sixty-two, or three. " I knew the old Countess," says Sir Walter Raleigh—in his History of the World— " who lived in the year...two years before the publication of the History of World; she must have been no less than one hundred and forty-five years of age—that is, the same... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - 1854 - 344 Seiten
...who lived in the year 1589, and many years since (afterwards), who was married in Edward the Fourth's time, and held her jointure from all the Earls of...that this is true, all the noblemen and gentlemen of Munster can witness.' Assuming that the Countess was married in the middle of Edward the Fourth's... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1860 - 486 Seiten
...year 1589, and many years since, who was married in Edward the Fourth's time, and held her joynture from all the Earls of Desmond since then ; and that this is true all the noblemen and gentlemen of Munster can witness." Raleigh had special reasons for remembering the aged Countess. There were... | |
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History of the World, says expressly that he himself " knew the old Countess of Desmond, of Inchiquin, who lived in the year 1589, and many years since, who was married in Edward the Fourth's time, and held her jointure from all the Earls of Desmond since... 
