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WebEdward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Earl of Clarendon is a title that has been created twice in British history, in 1661 and 1776. He joined the majority of the lords in proposing an amendment which would have allowed a maintenance to ministers deprived by the Act of Uniformity. It restores the phrases altered by the editors, and adds in the appendix passages omitted by Clarendon in the revision of 1671-2. 126). Although discouraged by Charles, Bristol seized the opportunity to bring forward a long-prepared charge of high treason against Clarendon (10 July 1663). 93). In his old age he used to say ' that he owed all the little he knew and the little good that was in him to the friendship and conversation of the most excellent men in their several kinds that lived in that age,' but always recalled with most fondness his entire and unreserved' friendship with Lord Falkland (Life, i. 337-41). 78). Clarendon's first object was to gradually restore the church to its old position. Clarendon was not blind to the defects of Oxford as a place of education. 333). Writing to Charles in March 1642, Hyde urged him to abandon all intention of appealing to force, and to sit as quietly at York as if he were still at Whitehall, relying on the 'affections of those persons who have been the severest assertors of the public liberties, and so, besides their duty and loyalty to your person, are in love with your inclinations to peace and justice, and value their own interests upon the preservation of your rights' (Clarendon State Papers, ii. 240). Jonson, Selden, Waller, Hales, and other eminent writers were among his friends. Since the removal of the university press to its present site in 1830, the edifice has been known as the Clarendon Building. A traveller who saw Clarendon at Rouen in 1668 terms him ' a fair, ruddy, fat, middle-statured, handsome man' (Rawlinson MS. C. 782-7, Bodleian Library). WebGeorge Clarendonwas born on December 6 1899. By April 1648 he had carried his narrative down to the commencement of the campaign of 1644. He renewed his motion against the marshal's court, obtained a committee, and produced a report which practically abolished that institution. By the declaration of Breda the exceptions to the general amnesty, the limits to toleration, and the ownership of forfeited lands, were left, in accordance with this advice, to be determined by parliament. To find occupation, and to divert his mind from his misfortunes, Clarendon 'betook himself to his books,' and studied the French and Italian languages. folio, Oxford). Edward was born on February 18 1609, in Dinton. Genealogy for Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609 - 1674) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Hyde was already in great straits for money. It was composed at different times, under different conditions, and with different objects. In February 1634 Hyde was one of the managers of the masque which the Inns of Court presented to the king as a protest against Prynne's illiberal attack upon the drama (Whitelocke, Memorials, f.19). But Hyde felt that a change of counsellors would ultimately re-establish his own influence, and expected to rejoin the king in Ireland within a few months. 63). Related surnames: IVINS (548) OVENS (426) EVENS (431) HEAVEN (299) AVANTS (246) EWENS (233) VAN (225) EVINS (207) EVEN (185) IVENS (184). pp. The Dutch made reprisals, and war was declared on 22 Feb. 1665. View Census Data for Clarendon | Data not to scale 417, 443, 497, 673; Burnet, Own Time, i. 1202-1220, 1353). At all events the chancellor reaped most of the odium caused by the comprehensiveness of the Act of Indemnity (Burnet, i. She died six months later, but the marriage connected him with the Villiers family, and gained him many powerful friends (Lister, i. of this sum, and contracted embarrassing obligations in consequence. Half brother of Mary Prince. 384, iii. The king told her aloud that was the naughty man who did all the mischief and set him against his mother; at which the queen herself was little less disordered than the chancellor was, who blushed very much.' 964, 1101; Lister, ii. With Clarendon's flight the dispute between the two houses came to an end. 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. WebWe collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each persons profile. Two letters written by Clarendon in 1668 to the Duke and Duchess of York on the conversion of the latter to Catholicism, are printed in the 'Harleian Miscellany' (iii. Pepys admired his eloquence with less reserve. 488). Birth 2/23/1893 - New York. The great collection of Clarendon's ', correspondence, acquired at different times by the Bodleian Library, comprises over one hundred volumes. 135; Ranke, Hist. 12). 325, 344). She pressed the king to buy the support of the Scots by sacrificing the church. The fifteenth article of his impeachment alleges that he ' procured the bills for the settlement of Ireland, and received great sums of money for the same ' (Miscellaneous Tracts, p. 39). 61; Rebellion, vi. Afterwards, finding the marriage perfectly valid, and public opinion less hostile than he expected, he adopted a more neutral attitude. In the spring of 1643 he at last exchanged the position of secret adviser for that of an avowed and responsible servant of the crown. According to Clarendon's own account, he took very little part in the conduct of the war, 'never pretending to understand what was fit to be done,' but simply concurring in the advice of military and naval experts (Cont. 2. But Charles and Clarendon allowed the pressure of the trading classes and the Duke of York to involve them in hostilities which made war inevitable. Nevertheless, he was prepared to accept a limited measure of toleration, but regarded the offers made at Uxbridge as the extreme limit of reasonable concessions (Clarendon State Papers, ii. 252). Hyde at once printed a vindication of his master: 'A full Answer to an infamous and traitorous Pamphlet entitled A Declaration of the Commons of England expressing their reasons of passing the late Resolutions of no further addresses to be made to the King' (published July 28, 1648. When war broke out between Spain and Cromwell, Hyde applied to Don Lewis de Haro, promising in return for aid in restoring his master to give the usurper such trouble in his own quarters that he may not have leisure to pursue and supply his new conquests.' Between 1646 and 1648 Clarendon wrote a ' History of the Rebellion' which ended with the defeat of Hopton at Alresford in March 1644. He was immediately appointed one of the committee of four with whom the king consulted in all his affairs, and a member of the similar committee which corresponded with the Scottish royalists (Rebellion, xiii. Till August 1654 he filled Nicholas's place as secretary of state. 1854, i. 1879, iv. from Oxford. 128). Rebellion, vii. Papists and presbyterians both petitioned for his removal (Rebellion, xiv. 81; iii. When Charles attempted to bring the war to an end by an understanding with Louis XIV, Clarendon drew the instructions of the Earl of St. Albans (January 1667); and though it is doubtful whether he was cognisant of all his master's intentions, he was evidently prepared to promise that England should remain neutral while France seized Flanders. Introduction, pt. pp. 185, 244). He thought a firm peace between the king and his neighbours necessary for the reducing his own dominions into that temper of obedience they ought to be in,' and desired to avoid foreign complications (Cont. 178; Commons' Journals, ix. Born The Hon. A number of the post-restoration papers are printed in the third volume of Lister's 'Life of Clarendon.' WebMapbox Mapbox OpenStreetMap Improve this map What did your Clarendon ancestors do for a living? We encourage you to research and examine these records to determine their accuracy. Clarendon State Papers, i. 8. In 1653 Sir Robert Long incited Sir Richard Grenville to accuse Hyde of secret correspondence with Cromwell, but the king cleared him by a declaration in council, asserting that the charge was a malicious calumny (13 Jan. 1654; Lister, i. He refused, on the ground that England would not bear a favourite, nor any one man who should out of his ambition engross to himself the disposition of public affairs,' adding that first minister was a title so newly translated out of French into English, that it was not enough understood to be liked' (ib. Relying on this engagement, and alarmed by the rumours of a design to prorogue parliament and try him by a jury of peers, Clarendon left England on the night of 29 Nov., and reached Calais three days later. Burnet censures Clarendon himself for not providing that the large fines which the bishops raised by granting new leases should be applied to the use of the church at large (Own Time, i. Of all Hyde's adversaries, the queen was the most persistently hostile. which Bastide the French agent offered him, but stooped to solicit a loan of 50,000l. 91-141). The muses, as Dryden remarks, were once his mistresses, and boasted his early courtship; but the only poetical productions of Clarendon which have survived are some verses on the death of Donne, and the lines prefixed to Davenant's 'Albovine ' in 1629. He adhered faithfully to the principles he professed in 1641, but the circle of his ideas was fixed then, and it never widened afterwards. 567). 189-216). Clarendon is remarkable as one of the first Englishmen who rose to office chiefly by his gifts as a writer and a speaker. The worst side of his policy is shown in his support of the high-handed conduct of Lord Willoughby in Barbadoes, which was made the basis of the fifteenth article of his impeachment in 1667. 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. According to his own account, which cannot be implicitly trusted, he endeavoured to mediate between the king and the commons, and used his influence with Laud to prevent a dissolution. 55, 76; Verney, Notes on the Long Parliament, pp. Charles coolly answered that he did really believe the chancellor had used those words, because he had often said that and much more to himself ' (ib. pp. of England, vi. At its best Clarendon's style, though too copious, is strong and clear, and his narrative has a large and easy flow. The Spanish government received them coldly (Guizot, Cromwell, transl. 9, 55-9, 89). As a statesman, Clarendon's consistency and integrity were conspicuous through many vicissitudes and amid much corruption. 'He spoke well ; his style had no flow [flaw ?] 464, 471; Burnet, i. In the end it was sold to the Duke of Albemarle for 25,000l., and pulled down to make room for new buildings (Evelyn, Diary, ed. 126, iii. The work usually known as the 'Life of Clarendon' was originally published in 1759 ('The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon. According to Speaker Onslow he never made a decree in chancery without the assistance of two of the judges (Burnet, i. 50; Rebellion, viii. The first edition was printed, not from the originals, but from a transcript of them made under Clarendon's supervision by his secretary, William Shaw. In Lent term 1622 Hyde entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford; failed, in spite of a royal mandate, to obtain a demyship at Magdalen College, and graduated B.A. He tells us that he also employed his pen in composing a number of lighter pieces, speeches, letters, and parodies directed against the parliament and its leaders (Life, ii. In 1662 he was granted, without his knowledge, 20,000l. 76, 112; Lauderdale and the Restoration in Scotland,' Quarterly Review, April 1884). As no ship could be found fit for the Danish voyage, the prince and his council established themselves at Scilly (4 March 1646), and, when the parliamentary fleet rendered the islands untenable, removed to Jersey (17 April). Written by Himself,' Oxford, 1759, folio). He took a leading part in the proceedings against the judges, and laid before the lords (6 July 1641) the charge against the barons of the exchequer (ib. and vii. He quotes Tacitus continually in the 'History of the Rebellion,' and modelled his character of Falkland on that of Agricola. The County is located in the central area of the state. See the full Family Tree with Dates, Places, Notes, and all the Children. 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. 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. Wheatley, ii. 240, 352; Rebellion, x. Mindful of the ill results caused by the separation of Scottish and English affairs, which the first two Stuarts had so jealously maintained, he proposed to set up at Whitehall a council of state for Scotland to control the government at Edinburgh (Rebellion, ii. The Scots and their partisans regarded Hyde as their chief antagonist, and succeeded in suppressing the inaugural declaration which he drew up for the new king (ib. xiv. 13). 40-3). 237). ix. 443; for the later history of the collection see Lady Theresa Lewis's Lives of the Contemporaries of Lord Clarendon, i. 119, 513). 341; Marvell, Works, ed. Clarendon refused a bribe of 10,000l. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each persons profile. 291, 339). Clarendon's 'History' is the most valuable of all the contemporary accounts of the civil wars. Bennet, Bristol, and their friends,' writes Pepys on 15 May 1663, have cast my lord chancellor on his back, past ever getting up again.' 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. A supplement to the 'History of the Rebellion,' containing eighty-five portraits and illustrative papers, was published in 1717, 8vo. Middleton's selection as the king's commissioner was largely due to his friendship with the chancellor (cf. 6). 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. Hyde began his political career as a member of the popular party. 'A Brief View and Survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to Church and State in Mr. Hobbes's book entitled Leviathan, ' Oxford, 1676 (see Clarendon State Papers, iii. Both expedients proved ineffectual. 411, 436, 482). 171, 316). In December 1634 he was appointed keeper of the writs and rolls of the common pleas (Bramston, p.255; Doyle, Official Baronage, i. ii. But if Hyde's policy was too purely negative to heal the breach between the king and his subjects, it yet succeeded in gaining him the support of half the nation (Gardiner, x. MSS. He desired peace with Holland because it would compose people's minds in England, and discourage the seditious party which relied on Dutch aid. 185-202). Explore the worlds largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources. Hyde was treated with personal favour, and promised the special privileges of an ambassador during his intended residence at Antwerp (Rebellion, xiii. The progress of the story is continually broken by constitutional digressions and lengthy state papers. 401 n.) During the Oxford negotiations in March 1643 he intrigued to gain the Earl of Northumberland, and vainly strove to persuade the king to appoint him lord high admiral (Life, iii. In the different conferences for peace Hyde was habitually employed in the most delicate personal negotiations, a duty for which his former intimacy with many of the parliament's commissioners specially qualified him. Burnet praises him for appointing good judges, and concludes that ' he was a very good chancellor, only a little too rough, but very impartial in the administration of justice' (i. He was buried in Westminster Abbey on 4 Jan. 1675, at the foot of the steps ascending to Henry VII's chapel, where his second wife had been interred on 17 Aug. 1667 (Chester, Westminster Abbey Register, pp. for his master and a promise of French support against domestic disturbances. Hyde distrusted the French government, feared the influence of the queen, and was afraid of alienating English public opinion (Clarendon State Papers, ii. 77; Black, Oxford Docquets, p.351). 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. According to his own account he was originally informed of it by the king, received the news with passionate indignation, urged his daughter's punishment, and begged leave to resign. Robert Reynolds abt 1586 Aylesford, Kent, England - 27 Apr 1659. viii. As they persisted in this refusal, the commons passed a resolution that the non-compliance of the lords was an obstruction to the public justice of the kingdom and a precedent of evil and dangerous consequences' (2 Dec.) The dispute between the two houses grew so high, that it seemed as if all intercourse between them would stop, and a paralysis of the government ensue (Lister, iii. by W. D. Macray, 1869, 1876). In the summer of 1642 he had made special efforts to win over the Earl of Pembroke (ib. The courage and ability with which Hyde conducted the petition of the London merchants against the late lord treasurer, Portland, gained him the favour of Laud. distribute as many personal obligations as can be expected, but take heed of removing landmarks and destroying foundations. iii. The original manuscripts of the work were given to the university at different dates between 1711 and 1753 (Macray, Annals of the Bodl. Hyde faithfully practised the principles which he preached, declining either to make his peace with the parliament or to compound for his estate. 34). 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.' ed. p. 272). In April 1668 he made his way to the baths of Bourbon, and thence to Avignon (June 1668). 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. A catalogue of the collection (2 vols. 435, 446, 487). Soc.) The king's concessions during the treaty had filled him with disgust and alarm. Hyde had also an immediate practical purpose in view. There is another by the same artist, and one by Gerrard Zoust in the collection at Grove Park, Watford, Hertfordshire (Lewis, Lives of the Friends of Lord Clarendon, 1851, iii. Still more serious, with men who remembered the Protectorate, was the charge that he had designed to raise a standing army and to govern the kingdom by military power. i. ed. iv. WebExplore historical records and family tree profiles about Charles Clarendon on MyHeritage, the world's family history network. 7 n, 43). As early as 1649 he had drawn up a paper of considerations on future treaties, showing the advantages of an agreement with the levellers rather than the presbyterians. 1751-62). Genealogy - Part of the Genealogy Trails Group Always Free, Always Updating. 150). He opposed the bill for the audit of the war accounts (1666) as 'a new encroachment which had no bottom,' and urged the king not to 'suffer parliament to extend its jurisdiction. 8vo; vol. Clarendon Papers, i. seemed to endanger, but really confirmed his power. 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. His income grew, he increased his paternal estate by buying adjoining land, and he made influential friends. His later view was that the king had fully complied with the promises made at Breda, which simply bound him to indulge tender consciences until parliament should make some legal settlement, and that the same promises now obliged him to concur in the settlement which parliament had made (ib. It was partly through his agency that the king obtained a loan of 10,000l. Hyde, although playing a conspicuous part in foreign affairs, exerted little influence upon them. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, was an English historian and statesman and grandfather to two British monarchs, Mary II and Queen Anne. The king was opposed to war, and convinced by the chancellor's arguments against it (Cont. pp. 422; Lords' Journals, xi. 193, 297; Lords' Journals, xi. 21). pp. Clarendon's opposition to the policy of toleration, which has been attributed to personal hostility to the promoters of the declaration, deeply incensed the king. 295-303; Lords' Journals, xi. 235, 287). The parliament of 1661, zealously and exclusively anglican, began by passing the Corporations Act (20 Dec. 1661) and the Act of Uniformity (19 May 1662). MSS. 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. Contents 1 Biography 2 Footnotes (including sources) He left Spain in March 1651, and rejoined his family at Antwerp in the following June. Hyde's name does not appear in the list of those voting against the attainder bill, and it is hardly possible to doubt that he voted for that measure. 307, 329, 339). 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. He was not directly Responsible for the Conventicle Act (1664) and the Five Mile Act (1665), both of which originated in the lower house, but refers approvingly to both (Cont. Ad. 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, 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. John Reynolds Sr abt 1606 England - aft 07 Jan 1643 managed by Puritan Great Migration Project WikiTree. 154). A list of editions of the 'History' is given in Bliss's edition of Wood (Athen Oxon. His characters are not simply bundles of characteristics, but consistent and full of life, sketched sometimes with affection, sometimes with light humour. Park); with the letter he addressed to the House of Lords on his flight from England (v. 185), under the title of ' News from Dunkirk House.' The narrative of transactions in Africa, laid before parliament on 24 Nov. 1664, was probably his work.

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