...about the above period, this good old custom began to decline. In Bunbery's " Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer," who was speaker of the house of commons, in the reign of Queen Anne ; there is a quotation from the diary of the Duchess of Grafton : it states, that money was given to...

...mansion a little north of the church, now the Manor House, but occupied only by a gardener. Sir Thos. Hanmer, who was speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Queen Anne, resided here, and died in 1746. Contiguous to his house, he had a very fine bowling green, and he was...

...about the above period, this good old custom began to decline. In Bunbery's " Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer," who was speaker of the house of commons, in the reign of Queen Anne ; there is a quotation from the diary of the Duchess of Grai'ton : it states, that money was given...

...Bettisfield and Hanmer Hall were burnt down during the Civil War; and the other is in memory of the Sir T. Hanmer who was Speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Anne, and the editor of an edition of Shakespeare. In the Fenns chapel there was a tablet in memory...

...dignity on July 8, 1620; but his direct line terminated on May 5, 1746, by the death, without issue, of Sir Thomas Hanmer, who was speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Queen Anne, and was even more distinguished by his elegant and correct edition of the works of Shakespeare. The...

...whom it was composed in 1391, and who was at that time ten years of age. Whether Sir Thomas Chaucer, who was Speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Henry IV., was another and elder son of the poet, as many of his biographers have supposed, is a point...

...of Stoke Saint Milborough, in Shropshire, who died sp 1709 ? Sir Thomas was the third baronet, and Speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Queen Anne. HUBERT SMITH. ARMORIAL BEARINGS.— In the windows of t church, the date of the erection of which is...

...dignity on July 8, 1620; but his direct line terminated on May 5, 1746, by the death, without issue, of Sir Thomas Hanmer, who was speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Queen Anne, and was even more distinguished by his elegant and correct edition of the works of Shakespeare. The...

...dignity on July 8, 1620; but his direct line terminated on May 5, 1746, by the death, without issue, of Sir Thomas Hanmer, who was speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Queen Anne, and was even more distinguished by his elegant and correct edition of the works of Shakespeare. The...

...Hanmer, and on the other that of Lord Kenyon. In the church is a handsome monument, executed by Bacon, erected in 1806, to the memory of Lord Chief Justice Kenyon, who was born at Grediugton, in the vicinity. There is another monument, in honour of Sir Thomas Hanmer, who was Speaker...