Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical . A demi-Pegasus issuing from a wreath. Supporters. On the dexter side, an eagle grasping in his lefttalon a thunder-bolt; on the sinister side, a Pegasus charged onthe wing, with a tleur-de-luce. Molto. Thus. Seat. Rockets, Essex. Mr. Claiks, in his late spleiidid Life of L^^rd Nelson, makes the followingmention of his Lordship: With the reputation, which Sir John Jervis hadgained in the various gradations of the service, was united a thorough knowledgeof the politics of the Brirish Empire and of Europe, and a keen discr
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical . A demi-Pegasus issuing from a wreath. Supporters. On the dexter side, an eagle grasping in his lefttalon a thunder-bolt; on the sinister side, a Pegasus charged onthe wing, with a tleur-de-luce. Molto. Thus. Seat. Rockets, Essex. Mr. Claiks, in his late spleiidid Life of L^^rd Nelson, makes the followingmention of his Lordship: With the reputation, which Sir John Jervis hadgained in the various gradations of the service, was united a thorough knowledgeof the politics of the Brirish Empire and of Europe, and a keen discrimination ofthe real character and abilities of those officers who served under him. Naturallyof an ambitious disposition, and professionally a strict disciplinarian, he despisedthe trammels, and sometimes, perhaps, forgot the feelings, which repress commonminds; and being determined strictly to execute the important duties entrustedto him, he resolved that every person in the fleet should rigidly do the Life of Lord Nelson, I. 241. 410 PEERAGE OF CADOGAN, EARL CADOGAN. 1 HIS family of Cadogan was of great honour and antiquity inWales, as the writers of the Welsh liistory and iheir genealogistsattest; being descended from Kehdlyn, Prince of Powis, andReinger, daughter and heir to Tydyr Trevor, Prince of Ferley,whose grandson, Kydvvgan, Lord of Radnor, with his three sons,defended his territories against King Henry L From whom inlineal descent, was Thomas Cadogan, Vulectus Corotie, as hewrites himseJf in his -last will and testament, dated June Iith,1511, and the probate is dated on July 12th following. Hetherein orders his body to be buried in the church of Dunster;and bequeaths to the church of the Blessed Mary of Penrise, hisbest tunick, and to Lewis Cadogan, one of his gowns. Theresidue of all his goods, chattels, &c. he bequeaths tcj Christianhis wife (whom he makes his sole executor), and to William Ca-dogan, and John Cadogan, his sons. Which William
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