Dictionary of national biography Volume 58 Sir Leslie Stephen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...1587; and Susan, born 26 May 1587, who was first wife of Philip Herbert, earl of Montgomery, and died 16281629. Oxford"s second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Trentham of Rocester Priory, Staffordshire; she was buried at Hackney on 3 Jan. 1612-13. By her he was father of Henry de Vere, eighteenth earl q. v. Cooper"s Athenae Cantabr. ii. 389-92, 5.i4; Cal. State Papers, Dom.; Wright"s Queen Elizabeth; Dugdale"s Rjronaze. i. 199-200; Markham"s Fighting Veres; Nicholas"s Life of Sir Christopher Hattnn; Martin A. S. Hume"s Life of Lord Burghley; Walpole"s Royal and Noble Authors; Cal. Hatfield Papers. S. L. VERE, Sir FRANCIS (1560-1609), general of the English troops in the service of the united provinces of the Netherlands, the second son of Geoffrey Vere, was born most probably at Cropping Hall, Essex, in 1560. The father, Geoffrey Vere, brother of John de Vere, sixteenth earl q. v., married, in 1556, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Hardekyn (d. 1558) of Wotton House, Castle Hedingham, Essex. He survived the eldest brother about six years, and the widow then settled at Kirby Hall, near Hedingham, where Francis and his brothers, (Sir) Horace Vere fq-v. and Robert, were brought up. His sister Frances married, in 1601, Robert Harcourt q. v. of Stanton Harcourt. When 1"rancis was but two years old he received a legacy of 20/. from his uncle, the sixteenth Earl of Oxford. Among the" Carmina Scholae Paulinae in regni Elizabethie initium " (Brit. Mus. Royal MS. 12 A. lxvii.f. xviii.) are some Latin elegiacs signed"ffranciscus Verus." As, however, these verses were probably written in J 558, nothing can safely be deduced from this appearance of the name. Francis and his brother Robert were initiated in the military art by old Sir William Browne, who had served... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Dictionary of national biography Volume 58 (Sir Leslie Stephen)