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Title: Historical portraits ... the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ament, for which he returnedthanks in person before sailing to conquer Ireland. In August 1689he landed in Ulster with a large but raw force very badly provisioned.He marched to Dundalk and, fearing to risk a battle, took up astrong defensive position. James came and looked at his entrench-ments, but dared not attempt anything against them ; and the oldMarshal had to wait till William landed in June 1690 before he couldtake the offensive against James. He met his death at the battle ofthe Boyne, gallantly rallying his Huguenot troops which showedsigns of wavering. Schomberg was an adventurer of the best type.At home in all countries and speaking all languages, he had theknowledge, courtesy and dignity of a truly cosmopolitan gentleman.His charm of manner and his great abilities disarmed the hostilitywhich greeted most of Williams foreign satellites in England. Hewas, m fact, as distinguished in society as he was in war, which hehad made both the profession and the passion of his life.
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MARSHAL SCHOMBERGFiom tlic portrait by William Wissing belonging to tlie Earl Spencer Face p. 258 SIR MATTHEW HALE (1609-1676) son of Robert Hale and Joan Po3ntz, was born at Alderle)- inGloucestershire, was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, andentered as a student at Lincolns Inn in 1628. During his early)-ears at the bar he was the intimate friend of Glanville, Noy, andSelden, and, although brought up in an atmosphere of rigid Puritan-ism and maintaining the Puritan creed to the end of his life, hebecame a man of wide culture and reading outside his own pro-fession. Of that profession he has always been reckoned to havebeen the brightest ornament, both for character and for learning, thatthe seventeenth century produced ; his judgements, dicta, and legaltreatises have been quoted with admiring reverence by all subsequentgenerations of lawyers. He was in politics a moderate Royalist,defended most of the distinguished Royalist prisoners on their trial,and is said to have offered h

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