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She then approached. "What's o'clock?" said Nancy. "Do you want the right time?" replied the man. "To a minute," replied Nancy, who, finding that the password was given correctly, now stopped, and faced the other party. "Is that you, Cornbury?" "Yes, Nancy," replied the man, who, was the same person who went on board of the cutter to give the information. "I have been seeking you," replied Nancy.
The stone of the Cornbury quarry was of peculiar excellence, as is shown in the present fabric. May, no doubt, used the stone which he had there tested, for St. Paul's, as well as for Clarendon House, in St. James's; and this easily gave rise to the scandal that Clarendon had used the stone intended for St. Paul's for his own residence.
In the following year he was liberated with his elder brother Ambrose, afterwards created Earl of Warwick, and his younger brother Henry. In the first year of Queen Elizabeth he was made Master of the House and elected a Knight of the Garter. In 1563 he was created Earl of Leicester. He died at Cornbury, in Oxfordshire, in 1588.
"That expenditure is the ruin of many a worthy subject! And yet accident chance fortune or whatever you may choose to call it, interferes nefariously, at times, with a gentleman's prosperity. I am an adorer of constancy in friendship, Sir, and hold the principle that men should aid each other through this dark vale of life Mr. Alderman Van Beverout ?" "My Lord Cornbury?"
"Would you like to say, 'God have mercy on my treacherous sinful sowl, or anything short and sweet like that?" said Fitzpatrick; "if so, I'll wait a couple of seconds more for your convanience, Philip Cornbury." Cornbury made no reply.
Cornbury was soon kept in countenance by a crowd of deserters superior to him in rank and capacity: but during a few days he stood alone in his shame, and was bitterly reviled by many who afterwards imitated his example and envied his dishonourable precedence. Among these was his own father. The first outbreak of Clarendon's rage and sorrow was highly pathetic.
"Philip Cornbury," said he, with a stern and unrelenting countenance, "you would have betrayed us for the sake of money." "It is false," replied Cornbury. "False, is it? you shall have a fair trial. Nancy Corbett, give your evidence before us all." Nancy recapitulated all that had passed. "I say again, that it is false," replied Cornbury. "Where is the woman whom she states to have told her this?
It might be, he said, that some of the officers had conscientious scruples about fighting for him. If so he was willing to receive back their commissions. But he adjured them as gentlemen and soldiers not to imitate the shameful example of Cornbury. All seemed moved; and none more than Churchill.
When Queen Anne sent out Lord Cornbury as governor of the Province, she recommended the Royal African Company to the especial attention of the governor, that New Jersey might have a constant and sufficient supply of merchantable negroes at moderate rates in money or commodities.
Good-night or good-morrow to you, according to the time you shall receive this letter from, Yours. LONDON, February 14, O. S. 1752. MY DEAR FRIEND: In a month's time, I believe I shall have the pleasure of sending you, and you will have the pleasure of reading, a work of Lord Bolingbroke's, in two volumes octavo, "Upon the Use of History," in several letters to Lord Hyde, then Lord Cornbury.
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