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" I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long and faithful services ; but I should not have given him these lands if I had imagined the House of Commons could have been concerned. I will therefore recall the grant, and find... "
Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 378
1912
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Observations on the Land Revenue of the Crown

John St. John - 1792 - 402 pages
...fervices; but I " fhould not have given him thefe lands, " if I had imagined the Houfe of Com" mons could have been concerned : I " will therefore recall the grant, and find " fome other way of fhewing my favour " to him." His Majefty performed his promife immediately, and...
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Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 638 pages
...his Majesty, in answer, was pleased to express himself: • • GENTLEMEN, " I have a kindness for my Lord Portland ; which he has deserved of me by long...therefore recall the grant, and find some other way of shewing my favour to him." And soon after his Majesty conferred on him a grant of the royal house of...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 24

John Britton - 1812 - 1070 pages
...kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me, by long and faithi'al services ; but 1 should not have given him these lands, if I had imagined...therefore recall the grant, and find some other way of shewing my favour to him."* • The lordship of Denbigh, together with the forests, as they are legally...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 17

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1812 - 1052 pages
...my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me, by long and faithful services ; but I should not hare given him these lands, if I had imagined the House...; I will therefore recall the grant, and find some Qther way of shewing my favour to him."* The lordship of Denbigh, together with the forests, as they...
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A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone ...

Thomas Smith (Of Mary-le-bone) - 1833 - 354 pages
...Majesty, in answer, was pleased thus to express himself: — GENTLEMEN, " I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long...therefore recall the grant, and find some other way of shewing my favour to him." And soon after His Majesty conferred on him a grant of the Royal House of...
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The Life and Times of William the Third, King of England, and ..., Volume 2

Arthur Hill-Trevor Dungannon (Viscount) - 1836 - 540 pages
...grant ; when his Majesty replied in the following terms : — " Gentlemen, " I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long...find some other way of showing my favour to him." Public attention was, however, on a sudden turned from the party feeling existing within the walls...
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Memoirs of the court of England from ... 1688 to the death of ..., Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pages
...returned the following characteristic answer to their address : — "Gentlemen, " I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long...find some other way of showing my favour to him."* Favourites are naturally objects of national jealousy ; and the magnificent grants conferred by a Whig...
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Memoirs of the Court of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to ..., Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 526 pages
...the following characteristic answer to their address : — " Gentlemen, " I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long...find some other way of showing my favour to him."* Favourites are naturally objects of national jealousy ; and the magnificent grants conferred by a Whig...
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Royal visits and progresses to Wales, and the border counties

Edward Parry - 1851 - 532 pages
...I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me, by long and faithful sendees, but I should not have given him these lands if I had...grant, and find some other way of showing my favour to him.s "WILLIAM REX." In this reign an estate in Caernarvonshire changed hands in a somewhat unusual...
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The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical ..., Volume 7

Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 518 pages
...kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long and faithful services ; but I had not imagined the House of Commons could have been concerned...find some other way of showing my favour to him." And he forthwith made a fresh grant to the Earl of Portland of the manors of Grantham, * " A severe...
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