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| | Biography of the Reverend William BLACKSTONE |
 | | On March 12, 1629, at the age of 34, WILLIAM BLACKSTONE of New England, was nominated, deputized, authorized and appointed by the Council for the Affairs of England in America to represent them in their place and stead in the Hilton Patent of Dover, Ne w Hampshire, which is quoted below: | | | WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, born in Gibside, Whickham, Durham County, England, on March 5, 1595, baptized at Horncastle Parish, Lincolnshire; parents, JOHN and AGNES HAWLEY BLACKSTONE, was to become a man of great talent, and although eccentric in many respects, managed to maintain the character of an exemplary Christian. | | | WILLIAM brought with him to the new world a large collection of books, approximately 186 in various languages, etc.; however, the bull that he is portrayed riding about on had more than likely been purchased here or otherwise acquired from its original owner who had returned to England. |
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http://www.dangel.net/AMERICA/Blackstone/REV.WM.BLACKSTONE.html
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| | William Kidd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Whilst awaiting trial, Kidd was imprisoned in the infamous Newgate Prison and wrote several letters to the joint sovereigns, William III of England and Mary II of England, demanding clemency. | | | The marriage eventually brought to Kidd a considerable amount of property (after the legal dispute around her inheritance from her first husband was resolved.) During this time Kidd was respected as an honest, hard-working ship captain. | | | According to Gilbert, after taking a single French ship (which was legal under his commission) on the first leg of his voyage, he proceeded eastward to Madagascar but was not able to find pirates to take in that vicinity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kidd
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| | Captain William Kidd |
| | Kidd was optimistic about being granted a Letter of Marque (an official contract from the King allowing a captain to legally engage in privateering), because England was at war with France and beginning to take an active role in doing away with all pirates that harassed its fleet. | | | Kidd was reluctant to accept this shaky commission, but Bellomont reassured him that his backers, being some of the most powerful men in England, would stand behind the Captain. | | | Kidd lived during the Golden Age of piracy, sailing far and wide as a privateer plundering the ships of enemies and allies alike. |
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http://www.sagharborchamber.com/pirates/kidd1.htm
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| | William the Conqueror |
| | William had no shadow of excuse for interfering, but he doubtless was watching the internal affairs of England. | | | William's claim rested wholly on that earlier nomination which could hardly have been made at any other time than his visit to England. | | | William bears a good character, and won the esteem of Englishmen; but the unlearned Ulf is emphatically said to have done "nought bishoplike." Smaller preferments in Church and State, estates in all parts of the kingdom, were lavishly granted to strangers. |
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http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/wilcon.htm
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| | William Cushyn (or Cussheyn),eldest son and heir of Thomas Cussheyn, was born at Hardingham early in the fifteenth century, and married Emme (Emma)(Unknown). | | | William was born at Hardingham early in the fifteenth century...lived at Hingham, England. | | | His long and explicit will was dated 26 SEP 1492, and proved in the Bishop's Court of Norwich, 11 MAR 1493. |
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| | William Kidd's Last Voyage |
| | Such arrangements were not unheard of, but the equity of the details contained in Kidd's contract may be judged from the fact that every one of his sponsors used an alias when signing it--including King William, who claimed 10 per cent of Kidd's profits. | | | While Kidd waited in England for a vessel to command, the Whig-dominated Board of Trade pondered a related concern--the pirates who were disrupting commerce between England and her Indian colonies. | | | Kidd faced the court virtually defenceless, being denied access to counsel or even a clear statement of the charges against him. |
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http://www.thehistorynet.com/bh/blwilliamkidd
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| | Alibris: William Blackstone |
| | Sir William Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. | | | Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. | | | Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/William_Blackstone
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| | Ancestors of Tim Farr - aqwg40 |
| | 3rd wife Rebackah Johnson daugter of William Johnson of mansfield. | | | William married Margaret NOYES on 10 Jul 1567 in, Fressingfield, Suffolk, England. | | | William Aldous and Margaret Noyes were married 10 July 1567 at the parish church in Fressingfield, Suffolk, England. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/2806/aqwg40.htm
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| | HISTORY OF CAPTAIN KIDD |
| | Noell in the High Court of the Admiralty of England. | | | Kidd and those of his crew who were arrested were transported back to England under guard on board the Royal Navy frigate HMS Advice to face their accusers and stand trial on five charges of piracy. | | | Kidd tried to uphold the terms of his commission as best he could, (hence the murder of William Moore - which is described later), but faced with the constant threat of mutiny, he opted for the compromise that branded him a pirate, and which would lead to his eventual downfall. |
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http://www.pfrh.supanet.com/HISTORYBODY.htm
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| | William Wilberforce: biography and bibliography |
| | Carey, Brycchan, 'William Wilberforce's Sentimental Rhetoric: Parliamentary Reportage and the Abolition Speech of 1789', The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 14 (2003), 281-305. | | | The story of Pitt's conversation with Wilberforce under an old tree near Croydon has passed into the mythology of the anti-slavery movement. | | | 'Thank God', said Wilberforce, 'that I have lived to witness a day in which England is willing to give twenty millions sterling for the Abolition of Slavery'. |
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http://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition/wilberforce.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - William Blackstone |
| | Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), British jurist and legal scholar, whose work Commentaries on the Laws of England was used for more than a century as the foundation of all legal education in Great Britain and the United States. | | | In 1770 Blackstone was appointed a justice of the Court of King's Bench and shortly thereafter a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. | | | Sir William Blackstone was born in London on July 10, 1723. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761554814
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| | William Stoughton |
| | William Stoughton was born on September 30, 1631 in England. | | | From 1676 to 1679 he also acted as an agent for Massachusetts at the Court of Charles II in England. | | | Following the outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Salem, Phips appointed Stoughton chief justice of the newly formed court of oyer and terminer. |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_BSTO.HTM
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| | Blackstone, Sir William on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Blackstone's Commentaries, written in an urbane, dignified, and clear style, is regarded as the most thorough treatment of the whole of English law ever produced by one man. It demonstrated that English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. | | | Blackstone's book exerted tremendous influence on the legal profession and on the teaching of law in England and in the United States. | | | Blackstone has been criticized, notably by Jeremy Bentham, for a complacent belief that, in the main, English law was beyond improvement and for his failure to analyze exactly the social and historical factors underlying legal systems. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/b/blackstow1.asp
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| | A Lincolnshire Family History - pafg32 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File |
| | William Burton ASKWITH was born about 1857 in Barton upon Humber,, Lincolnshire, England. | | | She married William Burton ASKWITH on 15 Feb 1886 in Primitive Methodist Chapel, Grimsby,, Lincolnshire, England. | | | Robert NOY was born about 1755 in Sennen,, Cornwall, England. |
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http://family.cleverwork.com/pafg32.htm
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| | Walker researchers |
| | George Walker was married to Elizabeth Waller in Yorkshire England.1865 Census Aurelious, Cayuga County New York page 34 Walker, George 60 (b 1805) England Mar. Elizabeth ?(b) England Mar 14 children John son 33 (b 1832) England Widowed William son 17 CANADA Single Elisha son 13 Onieda County Single Hannah Dau. | | | William died in Devonport Auckland, New Zealand on 29 July 1894. | | | He was a distinguish engineer contracted by one of the british raildoad companies establishd in Argentina. |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jean.ashfield/genealogy/pages/walkerresearchers.htm
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| | Opinions on the Subject of Negro Servitude |
| | Blackstone's Commentaries were quoted extensively in legal documents and court records throughout the nineteenth century and beyond. | | | The text made the laws of England for the first time accessible to those outside the legal profession. | | | Sir William Blackstone was the son of a prosperous London tradesman. |
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http://gateway.uvic.ca/spcoll/digit/slavery_opinion/commentary/bio_blackstone.htm
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| | Kresge Law Library Acquisitions |
| | Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books / by Sir William Blackstone. | | | The student's Blackstone : commentaries on the laws of England, in four books / by Sir William Blackstone ; abridged and adapted to the present state of the law by Robert Malcolm Kerr. | | | Origines juridiciales,, or, Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of tryal, punishment in cases criminal, law- writers, law-books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeant, Innes of court and chancery. |
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| | Commentaries on the Laws of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Commentaries on the Laws of England is an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769. | | | The common law of England, relying on precedent more than on statutes and codifications, was far less susceptible than the civil law developed from Roman law to the needs of a writer of a treatise. | | | Here, Blackstone the apologist takes centre stage; he seeks to explain how the criminal laws of England were just and merciful, a hard task when you consider that the statute books of the time prescribed the same penalty of death both for the theft of a shilling and for murder. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Laws_of_England
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| | 5317 Sapper William Thomas Driver, Australian Engineers |
| | William Thomas Driver was born in the County of Surrey, near the city of London, England in October of 1874. | | | The service papers of Sapper William Thomas Driver, including the following documents: | | | For his service during the Great War of 1914 to 1918, Sapper William Thomas Driver was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal [3]. |
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http://members.aol.com/reubique/5317.htm
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| | ~*William Gascoigne/~*Elizabeth Mowbray |
| | Name: *Nicholas Gascoigne Born: 1358 at: Lasingcroft,Yorkshire,England 18-6625 Married: Abt 1383 at: Wimpole,Cambridgeshire,England Died: Abt 1428 at: Spouses: *Mary de Clitheroe | | | Born: Abt 1340 at: K.,England 21-772 Died: Abt 1391 at: Harewood,England Father: ~*William Mowbray Mother: ~*Margaret Chaumond Other Spouses: | | | Born: Abt 1335 at: Gawthorp,Y.,England 21-771 Married: 1387 at: England Died: 17 DEC 1419 at: Harewood,Yorkshire,England Father: ~*William "Sir Knight" Gascoigne Mother: ~*Margaret Agnes Franke Other Spouses: |
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| | Garrison, William Lloyd on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Garrison's preeminence in the antislavery cause has been characterized as a "New England myth," some arguing that while Garrison attracted attention, the effective fight against slavery was carried on by lesser known, more realistic men (see abolitionists). | | | He was active in organizing (1831) the New England Anti-Slavery Society and (1833) the American Anti-Slavery Society, of which he was president (1843-65). | | | In the Liberator, Garrison took an uncompromising stand for immediate and complete abolition of slavery. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/GarrisonW1.asp
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| | William Howard Taft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Taft traveled to England, in 1922, to study the procedural structure of the English courts and learn how they disposed of a large number of cases expeditiously. | | | William Howard Taft IV is a high official in the United States Department of State. | | | While Chief Justice, Taft wrote the opinion for the Court in over 200 cases out of the Court's ever-growing caseload. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft
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| | William Cobbett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cobbett was greeted warmly by the British establishment on arrival but refused all offers of reward for his propagandising in the United States. | | | Following the passage of the Power of Imprisonment Bill in 1817, and fearing arrest for his arguably seditious writings, he fled to the United States. | | | Cobbett was found guilty of treasonous libel on June 15, 1810 after objecting in 'The Register' to the flogging at Ely of local militiamen by Hanoverians. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cobbett
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| | Blackstone's Commentaries |
| | Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), Professor of Common Law, Oxford University, was an eminent, prolific English authority on common law. | | | Wherefore, says Blackstone, the "primary object of law is to maintain and regulate these absolute rights of individuals." Vol. | | | Civil law is given, not to create rights, but to protect already pre-existing natural rights. |
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http://downloads.members.tripod.com/medicolegal/blackstone.htm
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| | William II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Thus William Rufus was secure in the most powerful kingdom in Europe (with the contemporary eclipse of the Salian Emperors) and, within England, the least trammelled by feudal obligations. | | | The pursuit of this aim led them to revolt against William in favour of Robert in the Rebellion of 1088, under the leadership of the powerful Bishop Odo of Bayeux, who was a half-brother of William the Conqueror. | | | William was able to claim the revenues of the archbishopric of Canterbury as long as Anselm remained in exile, and Anselm remained in exile until the reign of William's successor, Henry I. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_II_of_England
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| | HLS Library: Sixteenth Century English Lawyer's Library |
| | The best book on the justices of the peace was written by William Lambard, a prominent official of the Chancery, a learned lawyer and himself a justice of the peace. | | | Sir John Fortescue's De Laudibus Legum Angliae was written in the form of a lawyer or judge instructing a prince who would be king on the virtues of the constitution and laws of England. | | | The publication of the book was said to have been bought about by Sir William Staunford, whose books we will shortly notice. |
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| | The Descendants of Adrian de Lucy |
| | Child of MAUD FITZWALTER and WILLIAM DE LUVETOT is: | | | SIR THOMAS LUCY (1532-1600), the English Warwickshire squire who is traditionally associated with the youth of William Shakespeare, was born on the 24th of April 1532, the son of William Lucy, and was descended, according to Dugdale, from Thurstane de Cherlecote, whose son Walter received the village of Charlecote from Henry de Montfort about 1190. | | | Chief justiciar of England under Henry II, he came from Lucé near Domfront in western Normandy, and probably entered royal service under Henry I. He is recorded as a supporter of Stephen from about the year 1140, succeeding Geoffrey de Mandeville as justiciar and sheriff of Essex (1143). |
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| | An appeal to England was considered an act of treason, to be thwarted by any means--by exile, imprisonment, or death; and the chief necessity, an undivided front opposed to all attempts of the English government, secular or religious, to extend its control. | | | Opposite is a reduced facsimile of the contract for its construction William Ward being one of the six men who signed for the township. | | | To ascribe to Massachusetts' suffrage and religious restrictions the cessation of immigration from England is an unreasonable stretching of the indictment. |
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| | Thomas Holcombe of Connecticut - Person Page 253 |
| | William was born, perhaps in Massachusetts or in Windsor, CT, or he may have been an immigrant from England. | | | She was the daughter of William Moore and Elizabeth Case. | | | William was already in the midst of business engagements in Simsbury when we first learn of him. |
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