Author: Frances Parthenope VerneyPublisher:
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Memoirs of the Verney Family: During the Civil War, Volume 1
Author: Frances Parthenope VerneyPublisher:
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Pages : 360
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Memoirs of the Verney Family During the Civil War
Author: Memoirs of the Verney Family During the Civil War, Vol. 1 of 2
Author: Margaret Maria VerneyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265156407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Verney Family During the Civil War, Vol. 1 of 2: Compiled From the Letters and Illustrated by the Portraits at Claydon House The 'dignity of history has a great deal to answer for. It has been supposed to concern itself only with reigns of kings, conquests and defeats, alliances and treaties, and the intermarriages of rather uninteresting personages, while the great stream of life of common-place people, what they thought and what they felt, has till lately been only considered important when the mass of convictions became powerful enough to create an upheaval of some definite kind. History is indeed written in a different spirit at the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Memoirs of the Verney Family During the Civil War
Author: Frances Parthenope VerneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781845749163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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More than any other family, the Verney's - a dynasty of Buckinghamshire squires - embody the tragic conflicts and divided loyalties of the English Civil War. The family patriarch, Sir Edmund Verney, was a courtier and former close friend of King Charles I, even accompanying Charles on his fruitless marriage mission to Madrid when he attempted to woo the Spanish Infanta. However, as MP for Wycombe, Verney often found himself in opposition to Royal policy - and as a staunch Protestant particularly deplored Charles' devotion to High Anglicanism and Bishops. However, when the push of Parliamentary politics came to the shove of Civil War, Verney reluctantly placed his loyalty to the Crown above his conscience, telling a friend: 'For my part I do not like the quarrel and do heartily wish that the King would yield and consent to what they [Parliament] desire... [but] I have eaten his bread and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him; and choose rather to lose my Life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend'. Sure enough, in accordance with his own prophecy Verney did die in the Civil War's first battle, Edgehill. According to legend, he defended the Royal Standard so stoutly that his severed hand was found still clutching it after the battle. Verney's eldest son and heir, Sir Ralph, also an MP, was a stout Parliamentarian; but his younger brother, Edmund junior. was a passionate Royalist who died at the hands of Cromwell's troops in the massacre that followed the storming of Drogheda in Ireland. This two-volume family history, published in 1892, and much drawn upon by Civil War historians, tells the story of the conflicted family's fortunes - and the tragic wounds inflicted on close families who find themselves 'by the sword divided'.
Memoirs of the Verney Family During the Civil War, Compiled from the Letters, and Illustrated by the Portraits, at Claydon House. (vol. 3, 4 by Her Daughter-in-law (Lady Verney).
Author: Lady Frances Parthenope VERNEYPublisher:
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Memoirs Of The Verney Family
Author: Frances Parthenope VerneyPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354413971
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Memoirs of the Verney Family
Author: Memoirs of the Verney Family
Author: Margaret Maria Hay WilliamsPublisher:
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Memoirs of the Verney family, compiled from the letters and illustrated by the portraits at Claydon House
Author: F.P. VerneyMemoirs of the Verney Family
Author: Lady Margaret Maria Williams-Hay VerneyPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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Family history and genealogical data of the Verney family between the early 1600s and the late 1600s. "The period before and during the Civil Wars, to which the Verney letters so largely belong, must always be supremely interesting to us as the turning point of English history, especially when seen through the eyes of those who lived and wrote in those anxious times. Though facts may have been misappre- hended by them, though their opinions may have been mistaken, what cannot be wrong is the vivid record of the atmosphere in which these men and women lived, and of the beliefs and impressions that surrounded them and produced the overt acts which alone have been chronicled."--Preface in v. 1.