The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive . crhter of Sir Rkh;ird Saltinliall,- knight, had four fenwho all died iifuelefs. Alfo four daughters j Briniana, the wil^of James Stanley, fecond fen of Sir P^obert Stanley, knight, wh( fecond fon to William, earl of Derby ; Dorothy, the wifeOWilliam Mitchell, in the county of Norfolk ; Margaret and ElizSbeth, who died unmarried. His lady Brilliana, fo chrillened, becaufe born while her father was governor of the Brill, was highly celebrated for her
The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive . crhter of Sir Rkh;ird Saltinliall,- knight, had four fenwho all died iifuelefs. Alfo four daughters j Briniana, the wil^of James Stanley, fecond fen of Sir P^obert Stanley, knight, wh( fecond fon to William, earl of Derby ; Dorothy, the wifeOWilliam Mitchell, in the county of Norfolk ; Margaret and ElizSbeth, who died unmarried. His lady Brilliana, fo chrillened, becaufe born while her father was governor of the Brill, was highly celebrated for her prudence and valcar in the civil wars ; having fo heroicall]defended her hufoands callle of Bra^iipton, againll the powerful arff)which inverted it, that they were, aficr many attacks, obliged to raiiithe fiege, merely through her ficilful management of treaties with thadverfaries, and courage, which animated tlie defendantswell becomirjg a defcendant from her warlike anceilors. This iiegof Brampton was begun pn the twcnty-Hxth of J»ly, 1643, ^kfkd ieveHT wc-eks, in whicli time moll of-the town was burnt j ^] ^ th ^*».^ i. E A R L of O X F O R D. • 435 his gallant lady dying in Oftober followino;, the caflle was a fecondlime befteged. And then, after a long and brave defence, thonghnade by Sir Robert Harleys fervants only, and th^ enemys cannonlaving laid all the walls and outworks in ruins, it was furrenderedind burnt, as was alfo his caille of Wigi^iore, (the ancient feat oi the;VIortimers) together with the church of Brampton ; alfo his two parksmd warren laid walle ; befides above forty dwelling-houfes as the family has been ever addidled to the love of literature, asCell as the exercifes of arms, an extraordinary library of manufcnpttiid printed books, which had been collefted from one defcent to ano-Ith^r alfo perifhed in Brampton-caftle, at the faid demolition and fack(hereof- the whole lofs amounting, as it has been computed, to above?fi
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