Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . rd informs us that the men were paid by the Crown; the Dukes loyalty, however, was acknowledged in the following year by the grant of a commission of General of the Horse. The witty and severe Sir Charles Hanbury Williams has a satirical poem on the noble raisers of troops in that time, entitled The Heroes, in which he bestows these lines on the Duke of Montagu— Th
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . rd informs us that the men were paid by the Crown; the Dukes loyalty, however, was acknowledged in the following year by the grant of a commission of General of the Horse. The witty and severe Sir Charles Hanbury Williams has a satirical poem on the noble raisers of troops in that time, entitled The Heroes, in which he bestows these lines on the Duke of Montagu— Three regiments one Duke contents,With two more places you know ;Since his Bath knights,His Grace delightsIn tria junct in uno. We find perhaps in his private character the causes which tended to detach his mind from thatinclination to important employment in the state which generally excites the ambition of men of hisrank. He was an eccentric humorist, but with a heart overflowing with kindness and generosity; andhis irresistible affection to the surprising and the ridiculous seldom failed to insinuate itself even intothose noble acts of beneficence which ought to immortalize his name. The neighbourhood of Boughton26 »V, A. IHHllnjIli; ,. FROIX THE !• 1\\ IX THK COi£eCTI&S i THE IUGH1 Il\ Till I AIM. oi I K . JOHN HON PAGU, Dl ki: OF MON i 101 hit favourite Miiii, in Northamptonshire, still oherithes abundant traditionary anecdotes of tldiipoiitioni for it is ohiefly to the perhaps iafe evidence of tradition that ire e of it His benderness was extended bo (possibly the brueel beil of il i exoen and genuinem • of animated nature! His tenant! and dependants were strictl) charged neither to work nor bo kill bbiold or disabled oattle: but to bring them bo his park, ? portion of which was sei apaii for tlreception, whioh he called the reservoir, in which they remained till their natural death !Memoirs of the rlii Kat Olub, bhe onlj printed work w
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