Identifier: seriesofpictures04morr (find matches)
Title: A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: London (etc.) W. Mackenzie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ching each other equidistant, horriblefrom the blackness and fury of the river, and the fiery red and black colours of therocks, that have all the appearance of having sustained a change by the rage of anotherelement/ The noble family of the Duke of Buccleuch descends in the male line fromThomas Cornwallis, of London, living in 1378, ancestor of the Lords of that name, one of whom, namely, Charles Cornwallis, third Lord Cornwallis, married Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch, widow of the second Earl and second Duke, and was ancestor of the present ducal family of the name. The following titles have at one time or other been acquired or inherited bymembers of this great house:— Duke of Buccleuch. Duke of Queensberry. Earl of Drumlanrig. Earl of Buccleuch. Earl of Sanquhar. Earl of Dalkeith. Earl of Doncaster. Yiscount Nith. Viscount Thortholwald. Viscount Ross. Baron Douglas of Kinmount. Baron Middlebie. Baron Dornock. Baron Scott of Whitchester. Baron Eskdale. Baron Montagu. Baron Tynedale,
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CAENANTON, NEAR ST. COLOMB, CORNWALL. WILLYAMS. Carnanton House is romantically situated among beautiful woods at the head ofthe far-famed valley of Lauherne, and is about two miles from the rocky and iron-bound coast of North Cornwall. The family of Willyams, or as it was formerly spelt, Wyllyams, came into thecounty about the year 1485, the parent stock being in Dorsetshire. Thomas Will yams, who was born in 1524, was Speaker of the House of Commonsin 1562. In the parish church there is now standing a monument to his memory,bearing a complimentary, but quaint inscription. John Will yams, of Roseworthy, who was born in 1660, married the youugestdaughter and co-heiress of Colonel Humphrey Noye, of Carnanton, only son ofWilliam Noye, Attorney-General to Charles the First, of blessed memory, as hismonument in Mawgan Church imports, and by whom the Carnanton estates cameinto the family. Mr. Willyams, conspicuous for his active and zealous adherence to the Stuarts,suffered much persecutio

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