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Hace 1 día · Compiled by John Innys (c.1695-1778) and sold to Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, in the 1750s, the Comographia is a bound collection of engravings and wood block prints of maps, architectural plans, interesting landmarks, and key historical events. Innys was a bookseller and had collected the images from the various volumes that had passed ...
Hace 4 días · Margaret Coke, Countess of Leicester (16 June 1700 – 28 February 1775) was a British peer. She was born Lady Margaret Tufton , the third daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet by his wife Catherine, daughter of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne .
Hace 4 días · The "Sicilian business" outraged the barons led by the Earl of Leicester and Edmund's uncle, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and was cited as one of the reasons for limiting Henry's power.
Hace 5 días · John Coke was lord in right of his wife, and left Robert Coke, Esq. of Sparham, his son and heir, whose immediate descendant, the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Leicester, died lord, as in Holkham. Cordel bore, gules , a chevron between three griffins heads, erased, argent, Somerset , quarterly, France and England , in a bordure, ermin .
Hace 5 días · Leicester Square and the adjoining streets (fig. 94) were laid out on the estate of seven acres acquired by Robert Sidney, second Earl of Leicester, in 1630 and 1648.
Hace 5 días · This theory was based upon an explanation offered by Mary Bateson of a passage in the charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester of the mid12th century, which freed the burgesses from pleading outside the town.
Hace 5 días · Donations in memory of Faye can be made to Sarcoma UK (Reg, Charity No. 1139869) via Central Coop Funeral Care Blaby, 9 Lutterworth Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE8 4DW. 0116 2784237, or in a ...
