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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: brought from all parts of the united kingdoms on purpose to embark on the ocean, while a multitude of men, of the first fortunes and families, preferred all the hardships of a seafaring life to those pleasures, and that ease, which they might have enjoyed with impunity on shore. Sir John Borlase Warren, the subject of this memoir, is descended from the family of Borlase, Bur- lace, or Burlacy, in the west of England. His immediate ancestor, John Burlacy, of St. Newbrine, in Cornwall, forms one branch ) while Dr. Borlace, the historian of that county, springs from another; and the late Humphry Borlace, created Lord Borlacc by James II. after his abdication, deduced his pedigree from a third. That to which we now more immediately allude, removed into Buckinghamshire, where it obtained considerable estates. This family (says Langley, in his county history) were very anciently situated in Cornwall; but after the purchase of Little Marlow and Medmenham manors, made Bockmer-house their residence, where by their hospitality they became very popular, and were at different times sheriffs (of the county), and members for the adjoining boroughs of Wycombe and Marlow, as from the pedigree particularly appears. 11 is evident that the Borlaces, like their neighbours the Grenvilles, with whom they intermarried, took part during one period of the civil wars with the long parliament, for we find the name of William Bur- lase along with those of Ingolsby, Martin, and Scott, B 2 among chapter{{Section 4among the justices of the peace in the county 6f Bucks, which was then one of the most zealous in the kingdom, in behalf of the republicans, the appointment being dated 6 Martii, 1646. They also served many times as burgesses for Great Marlow, particularly in the parliament 15t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217274029 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217274021 |
| Weight | 1.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.90 In |
| List Price | $25.97 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 404 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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