Hist. Bliss, iii. When the army interrupted the treaty and brought the king to trial, Hyde vainly exerted himself to save his master's life. Knowing these names variants will help you build your family tree. Clarendon endeavoured to mediate between those powers, and refused to allow the English negotiations to be complicated by consideration of the interests of the prince of Orange. In this capacity he so successfully obstructed the measure that it was dropped (Rebellion, iii. 172note). p. 85). 8vo. It was partly through his agency that the king obtained a loan of 10,000l. pp. The first favourable conjuncture which presented itself was the war between the English republic and the United Provinces (1652). Other municipal and South Carolina State offices also maintain records that are useful for 15 Feb.1608 Dinton d. 19 Dec 1674 in Rouen, Normandy, France, buried in Westminster Abbey, in 1661, was created Baron Hyde, Viscount Cornbury and, But he told Nicholas that they had no reason to blush for a poverty which was not brought upon them by their own faults (ib. He accompanied the king in his removals to Cologne (October 1654) and Bruges (April 1658), and was formally declared lord chancellor on 13 Jan. 1658 (Lister, i. Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon and 2nd Earl of Rochester, PC (June 1672 10 December 1753) was an English nobleman and politician. Clarendon Earl i. Oxf. The question whether the new king should establish himself in Scotland or Ireland required immediate decision. In December 1634 he was appointed keeper of the writs and rolls of the common pleas (Bramston, p.255; Doyle, Official Baronage, i. xiii. 295-303; Lords' Journals, xi. The most complete and correct text is that edited and annotated by the Rev. Buff deals with parts of book vi. 'Animadversions on a Book entitled Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Church of England, by Dr. Stillingfleet, and the imputation refuted and retorted by Sam. pp. Catholics and presbyterians regarded him as their greatest enemy, and the French ambassador, Bourdeaux, backed their efforts for his removal. George 464, 471; Burnet, i. The impeachment was presented to the House of Lords on 12 Nov., but they refused (14 Nov.) to commit Clarendon as requested, because the House of Commons have only accused him of treason in general, and have not assigned or specified any particular treason.' Soc.) 130, 184, 285; Pepys, 20 March 1669). 240, 352; Rebellion, x. 50; Rebellion, viii. Sarah Reynolds 1614 England. His answer is that he merely acted as one member of the Irish committee, and had no special responsibility for the king's policy; but his council-notes to Charles seem to disprove this plea (Cont. Hyde's aim was, as it had been throughout, to restore the monarchy, not merely to restore the king. on 14 Feb. 1626 (Lister, i. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon father Anne Hyde, Duchess of York sister Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon brother Edward Hyde brother 645; Lister, iii. of this sum, and contracted embarrassing obligations in consequence. WebVolunteers Dedicated To Free. 91-141). The only one of these at present identified is Two Speeches made in the House of Peers on Monday, 19 Dec., one for and one against Accommodation, the one by the Earl of Pembroke, the other by the Lord Brooke, 1642' (Somers Tracts, ed. xlvi). The editors, in accordance with the discretion given them by Clarendon's will, softened and altered a few expressions, but made no material changes in the text. Edward Hyde, Lord High Chancellor of England, 1st Earl of Clarendon, (18 February 1609 9 December 1674) was an English statesman, historian, 8th Rep. p.583). A supplement to the 'History of the Rebellion,' containing eighty-five portraits and illustrative papers, was published in 1717, 8vo. When every attempt at comprehension had definitely failed, Clarendon's attitude altered. Clarendon held that the African conquest had been made without any shadow of justice,' and asserted that, if the Dutch had sought redress peaceably, restitution would have been granted (Lister, iii. Earle is survived by his wife of 52 years, Ellanora (Burke) Thompson w According to Evelyn, Clarendon was 'a great lover of books,' and ' collected an ample library.' Afterwards, finding the marriage perfectly valid, and public opinion less hostile than he expected, he adopted a more neutral attitude. WebBiography John Charles Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, was born 14 November 1757 to Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1709-1786) and Charlotte Capell (1721-1790) and died 22 December 1838 Walmer Terrace, Deal, Kent, England, United Kingdom of unspecified causes. A work entitled 'A Collection of several Pieces of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, to which is prefixed an Account of his Lordship's Life, Conduct, and Character, by a learned and impartial pen,' was published in 1727, 8vo. vii. 7. Burnet finds a similar fault in his speaking. Hyde was treated with personal favour, and promised the special privileges of an ambassador during his intended residence at Antwerp (Rebellion, xiii. In declaring the king's sole power over the militia (1661), and in repealing the Triennial Act (1664), parliament fulfilled these desires (Cont. 576). In the meantime Hyde endeavoured to prevent any act which might alienate English royalists and churchmen. pp. I do upon my knees,' he added, beg your pardon for any overbold or saucy expressions I have ever used to you a natural disease in old servants who have received too much countenance.' p. 1181). In dealing with the colonies circumstances made Clarendon tolerant. 30, 71, 125; Reliqui Baxterian, ii. in it, but had a just mixture of wit and sense, only he spoke too copiously; he had a great pleasantness in his spirit, which carried him sometimes too far into raillery, in which he showed more wit than discretion.' On the eve of the Restoration an attempt was made to exclude Hyde from power. But both from a literary and from an historical point of view the book is singularly unequal. 154). Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (28 November 1661 31 March 1723), styled Viscount Cornbury between 1674 and 1709, was Governor of New York and New Jersey between 1701 and 1708, and is reputed to have had a predeliction for crossdressing while in Crown office. Clarendon Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon - Wikipedia He joyfully obeyed the summons, and for the rest of the exile was, the king's most trusted adviser. When the Long parliament had succeeded Richard Cromwell, the king's friends were bidden to try to set the army and the parliament by the ears (Clarendon State Papers, iii. MSS. Either no peace can be made, or it must be upon the old foundations of government in church and state' (ib. 23, 78). Charles mocked at his scruples, but the legitimate profits of the chancellorship were large, and they sufficed him (Cont. MSS. Evelyn describes also the great collection of portraits of English worthieschiefly contemporary statesmen and men of letterswhich Clarendon brought together there (Evelyn, iii. 341; Marvell, Works, ed. Georgelived in Saint Petersburg, Florida 33710, USA. Born The Hon. Father: The father of the family is Lib. By April 1648 he had carried his narrative down to the commencement of the campaign of 1644. Cartwright; Pepys, 22Feb.1664). According to Speaker Onslow he never made a decree in chancery without the assistance of two of the judges (Burnet, i. 296; Pepys, Diary, 13 Oct. 1666). 289). He thought it necessary to appoint men of quality who would give dignity to their posts, and underrated the services of men of business, while his impatience of opposition and hatred of innovations hindered administrative reform. 323). by the transaction, and on 20 Feb. 1665 Pepys notes that the common people had already nicknamed the palace which the chancellor was building near St. James's, ' Dunkirk House.' 92-106; Burnet, i. The life of Clarendon given by Wood differs considerably in the first two editions of that work (see Bliss's edition, iii. 81). He defended Ormonde's truce with the Irish rebels, and disputed with Whitelocke on the question of the king's right to the militia (ib. Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1672 - 1753) 1851, iv. He did not share the common jealousy of Irish trade, and opposed the prohibition of the importation of Irish cattle (1665-6) with a persistency which destroyed his remaining credit with the English House of Commons (Carte, Ormonde, ed. Unwilling to accept the king's ecclesiastical policy, Clarendon was obliged to accept that of the commons. 141, 143; Hist. The County is located in the central area of the state. ib. 9. Anna Stuart (born Hyde) was born on month day 1637, at birth place, to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon. In the following summer, when Bedford, Clare, and Holland deserted the parliament, Hyde stood almost alone in recommending that the deserters should be well received by king, queen, and court, and held the failure to adopt this plan the greatest oversight committed by the king (Rebellion, vii. De Witt wrote that it was Clarendon's work, and begged him to confirm and strengthen the friendly relations of the two peoples (Pontalis, Jean De Witt, i. pp. i.; and in Lister's Life, vol. It was composed at different times, under different conditions, and with different objects. Nothing stirred the spleen of satirists more than the great house which he built for himself in St. James's, and his own opinion was that it contributed more than any alleged misdemeanours to 'that gust of envy' which overthrew him. Biography of Sir Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon 459). 268). Accordingly he supported the duke in recognising the marriage, which was publicly owned in December 1660 (Cont. Thereupon two thousand Irish soldiers in French service deserted and placed themselves at the disposal of Charles II (Rebellion,xv.22; Clarendon State Papers, iii. During this process of revision he omitted passages from both, and made many important additions in order to supply an account of public transactions between 1644 and 1660, which had not been treated with sufficient fulness in his Life.' He saw the strength which the name of a parliament gave the popular party, and was anxious to deprive them of that advantage. p. 1177). App. As soon as I found myself alone,' he wrote to Nicholas, 'I thought the best way to provide myself for new business against the time I should be called to it, was to look over the faults of the old, and so I resolved to write the history of these evil times ' (ib. 727, 738). i. ed. Hyde distrusted the French government, feared the influence of the queen, and was afraid of alienating English public opinion (Clarendon State Papers, ii. Macdiarmid's Lives of British Statesmen, 1807, 4to, and J. H. Browne's Lives of Prime Ministers of England, 1858, 8vo, contain lives of considerable length, and shorter memoirs are given in Lodge's Portraits and Foss's Judges of England. Hyde opposed this course, arguing that it would alienate public opinion (Life, iii. No man was fitter to guide a wavering master in constitutional ways, or to conduct a return to old laws and institutions; but he was incapable of dealing with the new forces and new conditions which twenty years of revolution had created. In private the king himself owned the charge was untrue, but refused to allow his testimony to be used in the chancellor's defence. 77). 121, 126). WebEdward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon, (born Feb. 18, 1609, Dinton, Wiltshire, Eng.died Dec. 9, 1674, Rouen, France. Although he did not share the hostility ot the puritans to Laud's ecclesiastical policy, nor the common animosity of the lawyers to the churchmen, he was deeply stirred by the perversions and violations of the law which marked the twelve years of the king's personal rule (1628-40). pp. Anonymous pamphlets written on behalf of the king. He joined the general council for foreign plantations (1 Dec. 1660), and the special committee of the privy council charged to settle the government of New England (17 May 1661; Cal. The king did not announce his decision, but seemed deeply offended by some inopportune reflections on Lady Castlemaine. He had been called to the bar on 22 Nov. 1633, began now seriously to devote himself to his profession, and soon acquired a good practice in the court of requests. He opposed the bill for the prohibition of the Irish cattle trade (1666) as inexpedient in itself, and because its provisions robbed the king of his dispensing power; spoke slightingly of the House of Commons, and told the lords to stand up for their rights. 185-202). 1649-50, p. 5; Cal. Comm. and iii. xliv, xlv). The merit of this firmness Hyde attributes partly to the king. In February 1645, during the Uxbridge negotiations, he and three others were empowered to promise places of profit to repentant parliamentarians, but his conferences with Denbigh, Pembroke, Whitelocke, and Hollis led to no result (ib. He disliked the new system of committees and boards which the Commonwealth had introduced, and clung to the old plan of appointing great officers of state, as the only one suitable to a monarchy. 344). John Reynolds Sr abt 1606 England - aft 07 Jan 1643 managed by Puritan Great Migration Project WikiTree. 'Their faction,' he concludes, 'is their religion' (Lister, ii. 1682, p. 192). vi. i. The house went into committee on that bill on 11 July 1641, and its supporters, hoping to silence Hyde, made him chairman. As the needs of the government increased, the power of the House of Commons grew, and Clarendon's attempt to restrict their authority only diminished his own. He opposed also, differing for the first time with Falkland, the bill for the exclusion of the clergy from secular office, and was from the beginning the most indefatigable adversary of the Root and Branch Bill. Papists and presbyterians both petitioned for his removal (Rebellion, xiv. Clarendon declined the land, saying that if he allowed the king to be so profuse to himself he could not prevent extravagant bounties to others. iii. On 3 Nov. 1660 Hyde was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Hyde of Hindon, and at the coronation was further created Viscount Cornbury and Earl of Clarendon (20 April, 1661; Lister, ii. But since it was to be sold, he advised that it should be offered to France, and conducted the bargain himself. 576). in rents due from certain lands in Ireland, but never received more than 6,000l. Often, however, the language becomes involved, and the sentences are encumbered by parentheses. 'It is not,' he says, ' a collection of records, or an admission to the view and perusal of the most secret letters and acts of state [that] can enable a man to write a history, if there be an absence of that genius and spirit and soul of an historian which is contracted by the knowledge and course and method of business, and by conversation and familiarity in the inside of courts, and [with] the most active and eminent persons in the government' (Tracts, p. 180). Lord Campbell holds that Clarendon's knowledge of law, and more especially of equity practice, was too slight to qualify him for the office of lord chancellor (Lives of the Chancellors, iii. The original manuscripts of the work were given to the university at different dates between 1711 and 1753 (Macray, Annals of the Bodl. 167, 175). 37). He sought by an attempted protest to prevent the printing of the Remonstrance, and composed an answer to it, which the king, at Lord Digby's instigation, adopted and published as his own (His Majesty's Declaration, January 1642; Husbands, Collection, 1643, p. 24; Rebellion, iv. He begged the king to put a stop to the prosecution, and to allow him to spend the small remainder of his life in some parts beyond seas (ib. 286, 290). iii. This was copied for the printers under the supervision of the Earl of Rochester, who received some assistance in editing it from Dr. Aldrich, dean of Christ Church, and Sprat, bishop of Rochester. The first contains a reprint of Clarendon's speeches between 1660 and 1666 extracted from the ' Journals of the House of Lords.' 63, 69, 75). distribute as many personal obligations as can be expected, but take heed of removing landmarks and destroying foundations. 63). This is a vindication of Charles I and the Duke of Ormonde from the Bishop of Ferns and other catholic writers. 135; Ranke, Hist. These charges, based on utterly worthless evidence, were refuted by Dr. John Burton in 'The Genuineness of Lord Clarendon's History vindicated,' 1744, 8vo. Hyde's enemies thought his influence then at an end, but in spite of the queen's advice, Charles II retained as councillors all the old members of his father's privy council who were with him at the Hague (Rebellion, xii. It consisted of Hyde and five others, and met every Friday at Oriel College (Life, iii. On the day when the Dutch attacked Chatham, a mob cut down the trees before his house, broke his windows, and set up a gibbet at his gate (Pepys, 14 June 1667; cf. iii. As a work of art the history suffers greatly from its lack of proportion. In the Short parliament of 1640 he sat for Wootton Bassett, was a member of seven important committees, and gained great applause by attacking the jurisdiction of the earl marshal's court (Lister, i. These and other charges are brought together in Historical Inquiries respecting the Character of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, by George Agar Ellis, 1827, and answered in Lewis's Lives of the Contemporaries of Lord Clarendon, 1852, vol. The Spanish government received them coldly (Guizot, Cromwell, transl. In February 1663 Lord Robartes introduced a bill empowering the king to dispense with the laws enforcing conformity or requiring oaths (Hist. At the king's request Henrietta allowed Hyde a parting interview before he left France, but only to renew her complaints of his want of respect and her loss of credit (ib. 283). The first consists of that portion only of the original life which was not incorporated in the 'History of the Rebellion.' WebResearch genealogy for Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarenden Clarendon of Rectory House, Dinton, Wiltshire, England, as well as other members of the Clarendon family, on It has been, therefore, argued that the proposal of such a compromise was merely a device to gain time, and Clarendon has been accused of treachery. The date fixed was earlier than Hyde's policy had contemplated, but the fear lest some vigorous dictator should seize power, and the hope of restoring the king without foreign help, reconciled him to the attempt. If the king decided that any part of it should be published, Nicholas and other assistant editors were empowered to make whatever suppressions or additions they thought fit (Clarendon State Papers, ii. But he did not disdain the lighter literature of his age, praised the amorous poems of Carew, prided himself on the intimacy of Ben Jonson, and thought Cowley had made a flight beyond all other poets. The chief objects of the embassy were to procure a loan of money from the king of Spain, to obtain by his intervention aid from the pope and the catholic powers, and to negotiate a conjunction between Owen O'Neill and Ormonde for the recovery of Ireland. 34). On 4 March 1645 Hyde was despatched to Bristol as one of the council charged with the care of the prince of Wales and the government of the west. He advised the prince not to trust the Scots, whose emissaries were urging him to visit Scotland, and was resolved that he himself would go neither to Scotland nor to Ireland. George Alfred Reynolds 29 Mar 1823 Williamson, Tennessee, United States - 19 Dec 1906 managed by Terry Babcock. Promotion so rapid for a man of his age and rank aroused general jealousy, especially among the members of his own profession. 12). 13). Hyde began his political career as a member of the popular party. In December 1650 they were ordered to leave Spain. After the convention had decided that church and crown lands should revert to their owners, a commission was appointed to examine into sales, compensate bona-fide purchasers, and make arrangements between the clergy and the tenants. Hence the portraits which fill so many of his pages. Of the attack on the Dutch settlements in America he took a different view, urging that they were English property usurped by the Dutch, and that their seizure was no violation of the treaty. At the beginning of the reign Mazarin had regarded Clarendon as the most hostile to France of all the ministers of Charles II, but he was now looked upon as the greatest prop of the French alliance (Chruel, Mazarin, iii. He was anxious that the king should carry out his original intention of providing for deserving Irishmen out of the confiscated lands which had fallen to the crown, but was out-generalled by the Earl of Orrery (Cont.