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John Rolfe reported in 1621: At Dale's Gift, being upon the sea near unto Cape Charles, about thirty miles from Kecoughtan, are seventeen inhabitants under command of Lieutenant Cradock. All these are fed and maintained by the Colony. Their labor is to make salt and catch fish....
When he had done, Sir John Cradock said: "I am sure, gentlemen, that you all agree with me that Mr.
"I oughtn't to have let them fight, I know," said Cradock; "and I wish, sir, you'd put Harpour and Jones into another room, they're always bullying Eden, and it was for him that Evson fought." "Harpour," said Mr Robertson, "you are absolutely despicable; a viler figure than you present at this moment could not be conceived.
So home and to bed. Zachary Cradock, Provost of Eton. Nov. 2, 1678. 'Ita testor', Zach. Cradock. 11th. At the office all the morning, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and I about the Victualler's accounts. Then home to dinner and to the office again all the afternoon, Mr.
The circumstances of his election and trust, so honorable and dignified, are happily told with sufficient particularity on our own Court Records. Governor Cradock, his honored predecessor, not intending immediate emigration, put the proposition, and announced the result which gave him such a successor.
"Does that make you feel safe?" he demanded; and then, pointing to a maidservant at the sideboard, he added, "See that parlourmaid? well, she's leaving; yesterday I spent two hours at Mrs. Hunt's registry office interviewing parlourmaids. Now, do you feel safe?" His return to the Admiralty brought him no happiness save when he sent Admiral Sturdee to sea to avenge the death of Admiral Cradock.
The main Boer force under Kritzinger was in the midlands, however, and had concentrated to such an extent in the Cradock district that it was clear that some larger enterprise was on foot.
Hilary, becoming tragically resolute. "I must tell Mr. Cradock to-morrow." "That young man? Must he know about Nan's affairs, my dear?" "I have to tell him everything, mother. It's part of the course. He is as secret as the grave."
Colonel O' Connor is to continue in command of the regiments, which will be attached to the British army, under the command of Sir John Cradock. "Here is also a letter for your friend Herrara, and a much more bulky one; will you hand it to him?"
Doubtless his six years about town, as hackney author, with his good birth, his brilliant wit, and his scanty means, had made him well acquainted with every phase of society, "from the Minister at his Levee, to the Bailiff at his spunging-house; from the Duchess at her drum, to the Landlady behind her bar"; but it was in the rural seclusion of an old cathedral town that he wooed and won the beautiful Miss Cradock.
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