eochester

Updated: June 14, 2025

By this time the earl of Eochester was entirely removed from the queen's councils.

T. (Tobias) Smollett - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. : Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II.

The Counts of Flanders, of Boulogne, and of Blois, joined the young king in Paris, and did homage to him for fiefs which he bestowed on them Kent, Dover, Eochester, lands in Lincolnshire, and domains and castles in Normandy while he won the aid of the Scot king by granting him all Northumberland to the Tyne. The rebellion was organized in a month.

Mrs. J. R. Green - Henry the Second

Both writers are essentially ascetic, though the one swallows Mirabeau, and the other says that Jane Eyre should have accepted Eochester and "left the world in a minority." But Emerson is never coarse, which Carlyle occasionally is; and Carlyle is never flippant, as Emerson often is.

John Nichol - Thomas Carlyle

The earl of Eochester compared the expressions in the queen's speech at the beginning of the session, to the law enacted in the reign of Charles II. denouncing the penalties of treason against those who should call the king a papist; for which reason, he said, he always thought him of that persuasion.

T. (Tobias) Smollett - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. : Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II.