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And the viscounty Well, said Lady Evenswood, if Robert were once convinced, the want of precedents would not stop him; precedents must, after all, be made, and why should not Robert make them? This then, the moment when all the wise and experienced people were agreed that nothing could, should, or ought to be done, was the chance for a Tristram.
They had town councillors, who elected four consuls every four years, who represented the borough in the Etats Vicomtains an assembly composed of the principal landholders and dignitaries of the viscounty. The more they tasted freedom the more the burghers felt disposed to quarrel with the Viscount.
The original monastery was founded in 858 by Charles le Chauve, who placed it under his protection. Although the territory was included in the viscounty of Turenne, the Viscount Raymond II., before he went crusading, made over his suzerain rights with regard to the abbey and its dependencies to the abbots, who thus became temporal lords.
Captain Richard Howe of the Royal Navy, afterwards Admiral and Earl, succeeded him in the Irish viscounty which had been bestowed upon their grandfather by William III. Of a temperament colder, at least in external manifestation, than that of his brother, the new Lord Howe was distinguished by the same fairness of mind, and by an equanimity to which perturbation and impulsive injustice were alike unknown.
Lord Malmesbury had already obtained the Order of the Bath, and a barony; he was now raised to an earldom, with a viscounty, by the title of Lord Fitzharris; and it was in Pitt's contemplation to send him once more to Paris, when his ministry was suddenly brought to a conclusion, and Mr Addington was appointed premier; by whom the peace, or rather the unlucky truce of Amiens, was made.
But they discussed it eagerly for some minutes before agreeing that, wherever the truth lay, a viscounty could not be considered out of the way for the Tristrams legitimate and proper Tristrams, be it understood. "And that's where the match would be of decisive value," Lady Evenswood concluded. "Disney said as much evidently. So you understood, Madame Zabriska?" "I suppose so.
Turenne, carefully conciliated and caressed, was made, on his brother's death, governor of Auvergne, and the viscounty of Turenne erected into a principalty. Very shortly afterwards he also received the post of minister of state.
That wasn't done in the Bearsdale case, nor in any other that I ever heard of." "We shouldn't press that. A barony would do. But if Disney thought that under the very exceptional circumstances a viscounty " "I don't see why you want it," she persisted. The slight embarrassment in Southend's manner stirred the old lady's curiosity.
"Good-by, George. You're looking very well." "And you're looking very young." "Oh, I finished getting old before you were forty." A thought struck Southend. "You might suggest the viscounty as contingent on the marriage." "I shan't suggest anything till I've seen the boy and I won't promise to then."
Arthur Herbert, Earl of Torrington the later peerage is a viscounty held by the Byng family was in command of the allied English and Dutch fleet in the Channel.
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