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Clarendon describes his loss as a great one to the cause.
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Hale had no wish to receive the knighthood that accompanied this appointment and so tried to avoid being near the King ; in response, the Lord Chancellor Lord Clarendon invited him to his house, where the King was present.
Potter concluded that " in the long roll of English historical writing from Clarendon to Trevelyan only Gibbon has surpassed him in security of reputation and certainty of immortality ".
Three months ago I promised Lord Clarendon, and his government, in this country, that I would provoke him into his courts of justice, as places of this kind are called, and that I would force him publicly and notoriously to pack a Jury against me to convict me, or else that if I would walk out a free man from this dock, to meet him in another field.
Allying himself with Lady Castlemaine, he encouraged Charles's increasing dislike of Clarendon ; and he was made secretary of state in October 1662 in spite of the opposition of Clarendon, who had to find him a seat in parliament.
On the death of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, whose administration he had attacked, his great ambition, the treasurership, was not satisfied ; and on the fall of Clarendon, against whom he had intrigued, he did not, though becoming a member of the Cabal Ministry, obtain the supreme influence which he had expected ; for Buckingham first shared, and soon surpassed him, in the royal favour.
" They were resolved one way or other to be rid of him ," says Clarendon.
" His subsequent movements and the date of his return to England are uncertain, but in 1656 Cromwell's resentment was again excited against him as the supposed author of a tract, really written by Clarendon.
In later years Clarendon declared " next the immediate blessing and providence of God Almighty " that he " owed all the little he knew and the little good that was in him to the friendships and conversation ... of the most excellent men in their several kinds that lived in that age.
Clarendon reluctantly, but bravely, gives testimony at the King's trial which is instrumental in condemning him to death.
He was the friend of John Hales and Chillingworth, was celebrated by Ben Jonson, John Suckling, Abraham Cowley and Edmund Waller in verse, and in prose by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, who calls him the " incomparable " Falkland, and draws a delightful picture of his society and hospitality.
From 1840 to 1855 he wrote for The Times, his close touch with men like Guizot, Christian Bunsen, Lord Clarendon, and his own chief at the Privy Council Office, Charles Greville, enabling him to write with authority on foreign policy during the critical period from 1848 to the end of the Crimean War.
From the age of nine, since his father has just remarried to the heiress Flower Backhouse, he lived at Swallowfield in Berkshire and he matriculated at Oxford on 23 January 1675, a month after his father had succeeded as 2nd Earl of Clarendon, making him Viscount Cornbury.
But he re-entered the cabinet in May 1864 as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; and upon the death of Lord Palmerston in 1865, Lord Russell again became prime minister, when Lord Clarendon returned to the foreign office, which was again confided to him for the third time upon the formation of Gladstone's administration in 1868.
Richard Baxter speaks of him as ‘ belonging to that class of episcopal divines who differ in nothing considerable from the rest of the reformed churches except in church government ,’ and Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon classes him with ‘ the less formal and more popular prelates ’.
When his father was impeached in 1667, Laurence joined his elder brother, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, in defending him in Parliament, but the fall of Clarendon did not injuriously affect the fortunes of his sons.
The Duke of York sought a peerage for him in 1665, but was successfully opposed by Clarendon, on the ground of his " ill-reputation amongst men of piety and religion.
Clarendon described him as " a wise man, and of too great and plentiful a fortune to wish the subversion of the government ," and again referring to his death, said that " many who knew him well thought his death not unseasonable as well to his fame as his fortune, and that it rescued him as well from some possible guilt as from those visible misfortunes which men of all conditions have since undergone.
The Monmouthshire estates, which he had obtained by reversion from Cromwell, were allowed to remain in his possession, though they should strictly have reverted to his father ; the latter wrote to Lord Clarendon that his son was intriguing against him.

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They were moved to their own establishment at Richmond Palace, where they were raised by their governess Lady Frances Villiers, with only occasional visits to see their parents at St. James's or their grandfather Lord Clarendon at Twickenham.
Under new ownership, the railroad became profitable, not only as a freight line, but also by providing daily passenger service from Clarendon to Brinkley and on to Helena, making stops in Marvell along the way.
" An editor's enthusiasm is soon chilled by the discovery that Isidore's book is really a mosaic of pieces borrowed from previous writers, sacred and profane, often their ' ipsa verba ' without alteration ," W. M. Lindsay noted in 1911, having recently edited Isidore for the Clarendon Press, with the further observation, however, that a portion of the texts quoted have otherwise been lost: the Prata of Suetonius can only be reconstructed from Isidore's excerpts.
St Paul's was one of only nine schools considered by the Clarendon Commission, and one of only two schools which was not predominantly attended by boarders ( the other day school was Merchant Taylors ').
In the film Cromwell, Clarendon ( called only Sir Edward Hyde in the movie ), is portrayed by Nigel Stock as a sympathetic, conflicted man torn between Parliament and the King.
Edward Hyde, the only child of Henry, Viscount Cornbury ( 1638 – 1709 ), eldest son of the 1st Earl of Clarendon, and the former Theodosia Capell ( 1640 – 1662 ), daughter of Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham and sister of the 1st Earl of Essex, he was the nephew of Lady Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, wife of the future King James II.
On his death, he was succeeded by his only son, Henry ( 1672 – 1758 ), who in 1724 inherited the earldom of Clarendon.
The honors were, however, only deferred for a short time and were obtained after the fall of Clarendon on 31 December 1667, when Savile was created Baron Savile of Eland and Viscount Halifax.
Lord Clarendon was succeeded by his first cousin Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Rochester, who became the fourth Earl of Clarendon ; he was the only son of the first Earl of Rochester.
Curtis proceeded to Clarendon, only to find that the flotilla had departed the previous day.
He was born in Clarendon, New York, and grew up on a farm, attending school for only three years.
Clarendon was the only son of Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon and his wife Lady Caroline Elizabeth Agar, daughter of James Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton.
Lord Clarendon died in October 1914, aged 68, and was succeeded in the earldom by his only son George.
Clarendon says before the war he had been given up to pleasure and field sports, but that he broke those habits and became a thorough soldier, conspicuous not only for courage, but presence of mind and skilful generalship ( ib vii 216 ).
Its ' sister school ,' Clarendon House, is a girls ' school, only a few minutes walk from this complex.
The reservoir does not connect directly to the main reticulation system ; rather, to maintain levels at Clarendon Weir, water is released only as required.

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Clarendon gives a very eulogistic account of Pembroke, who appears, however, to have been a man of weak character and dissolute life.
In the Short Parliament of 13 April to 4 May 1640 he made one of the speeches that led to its dissolution and " appeared to be the most leading man " according to Clarendon.
" Dr Earle ," says Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, in his Life, " was a man of great piety and devotion, a most eloquent and powerful preacher, and of a conversation so pleasant and delightful, so very innocent, and so very facetious, that no man ’ s company was more desired and loved.
As a commander in the field Lord Clarendon spoke contemptuously of Newcastle as " a very lamentable man, and as fit to be a general as a bishop ".
Men of such divergent sympathies as Baxter, Burnet and Clarendon agreed in describing Manchester as a lovable and virtuous man, who loved peace and moderation both in politics and religion.
He was described by Clarendon as " a man of very dumb education and a narrower mind "; and again he says, " his cardinal perfection was industry and his most eminent infirmity covetousness.
Clarendon described Haselrig as " an absurd, bold man.
" He was not a man of many words ," says Clarendon, " and rarely began the discourse or made the first entrance upon any business that was assumed, but a very weighty speaker, and after he had heard a full debate and observed how the House was likely to be inclined, took up the argument and shortly and clearly and craftily so stated it that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he never was without the dexterity to divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative which might prove inconvenient in the future " ( Hist.
Clarendon says of Goring that he " would, without hesitation, have broken any trust, or done any act of treachery to have satisfied an ordinary passion or appetite ; and in truth wanted nothing but industry ( for he had wit, and courage, and understanding and ambition, uncontrolled by any fear of God or man ) to have been as eminent and successful in the highest attempt of wickedness as any man in the age he lived in or before.
After 1660 he became a prominent public man, with influence among the Presbyterians, and ranged himself among Lord Clarendon ’ s enemies.
Of another Cavalier, Lord Goring a general in the Royalist army, the principal advisor to Charles II, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, said that he " would, without hesitation, have broken any trust, or done any act of treachery to have satisfied an ordinary passion or appetite ; and in truth wanted nothing but industry ( for he had wit, and courage, and understanding and ambition, uncontrolled by any fear of God or man ) to have been as eminent and successful in the highest attempt of wickedness as any man in the age he lived in or before.
Clarendon described him as " a young man bred under the severe discipline of Lord Percy ... very well qualified with languages, and all other parts of clerkship, honesty and discretion ".
He was a slave, proud of his servitude, a Paul Pry, convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues, an unsafe companion who never scrupled to repay the most liberal hospitality by the basest violation of confidence, a man without delicacy, without shame, without sense enough to know when he was hurting the feelings of others or when he was exposing himself to derision ; and because he was all this, he has, in an important department of literature, immeasurably surpassed such writers as Tacitus, Clarendon, Alfieri, and his own idol Johnson.
) The new Foreign Secretary, Lord Clarendon, had full faith and confidence that Lyons would be the " honest man " to clean up the mess and restore positive Anglo-Ottoman relations.
Cleveland was described by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, as " a man of signal courage and an excellent officer "; his cavalry charge at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, where he routed John Middleton's Parliamentary horse and then with Lord Wilmot's horse led another charge that captured the Parliamentary artillery, was one of the most brilliant incidents in the Civil War, and it was by his bravery and presence of mind that King Charles II was enabled to escape from Worcester.

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