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Updated: September 6, 2025
On the 11th of February, 1870, the Lords of the Admiralty applied for an injunction to prevent the so-called countess from entering on the Greenwich estates, and their application was immediately granted. Shortly afterwards the bailiff acting on behalf of the countess, and the ringleaders in the Consett affair, were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment.
She was richly apparelled, but her semi-military guise did not save herself, or those who came with her, from being somewhat rudely ejected. Her sole consolation was that the mob cheered her lustily as she drove off in her carriage. On the 5th of January, in the following year, a great demonstration in her favour took place at Consett, in the county of Durham.
The name of Parr was soon discarded, and the time-honored name, which goes back to the days of de Monts and Champlain was restored at the incorporation of the city on the 18th of May, 1785. The names of the vessels of the Spring fleet and of their respective masters, so far as they have been preserved, are as follows: "Union," Consett Wilson, master; "Camel," Wm.
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