Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . flered long imprisonment inFleet-street Jail because of his attachment to Charles, was inthe train of the Prince while at Madrid; and from that cityhe wrote to his noble friend. Sir John North, in the sum-mer of 1628, saying: Mr. Washington^ the Prince his page is lately dead of aCalenture, and I was at his burial! under a Figtree behind myLord of BrisfoVs house. A little before his death one Bal-lard^ an English Priest, went to tamper with him, and Sir AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 15 Edmund Yarncy meeting him coming down the
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . flered long imprisonment inFleet-street Jail because of his attachment to Charles, was inthe train of the Prince while at Madrid; and from that cityhe wrote to his noble friend. Sir John North, in the sum-mer of 1628, saying: Mr. Washington^ the Prince his page is lately dead of aCalenture, and I was at his burial! under a Figtree behind myLord of BrisfoVs house. A little before his death one Bal-lard^ an English Priest, went to tamper with him, and Sir AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 15 Edmund Yarncy meeting him coming down the stairs outof Washivgto7is chamber, thej fell from words to l)lo\vs: butthey were parted. The business was like to gather very illblond, and com to a great hight, had not Count Gondamarquasht it, which 1 belecve he could not have done,, unless thetimes had bin favorable; for such is the re^erence they bearto the Church here, and so holy a conceit they have of allEcclesiastics, that the greatest Don in Spain will tremble tooffer the meanest of them any outrage or CAVK CASTLK. From this loyal family came emigrants to America nineyears after King Charles lost his head. Tliese were two IG MOUXT VKllXOiSl brothers, true Cavaliers, who coukl not brook the rule ofCroiinvcll, the self-styled Lord Protector of England. Theyleft their beautiful residence of Cave Castle, north of theIluniber, in Yorhshire, and sought more freedom of life in thevirgin soil of the New World. And in later years the repre-sentatives of the Washingtons and Fairfaxes, who were neigh-bors and friends in Virginia, found themselves, in politicalpositions, opposed to those of their ancestors; that of theformer being the great leader of a republican army, and ofthe latter a most loyal adherent of the crown. The Washingtons who first came to America seem not tohave been possessed of nmcli wealth. They brought withthem no family plate as evidences of it; for the heiress of thefamily had given her hand and fo
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