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Title: Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Foote, Henry Wilder, 1838-1889 Edes, Henry Herbert, 1849- Perkins, John Carroll, 1862- Warren, Winslow, 1838-1930
Subjects: King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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fortunein the Irish wars, was created an Irishbaronet in 1O2F, and was killed after gal-lant >ervices in the Irish Rebellion of1641. His son (3)Charles succeeded to the title, and held high office on the Par-liamentary side in the civil war; but wasactive in the recall of Charles II., andwas rewarded, Sept. 6, 1660, by the titleof Earl of Montrath, while his younger brother, Richard, having been active inthe cause, was on the same day raised to the peerage as Baron Coote, of Coloo-ney, Co. Sligo, Ireland. Richard hadpreviously married Mary, second daugh-ter of Sir George St. George, Bart ofCarricksdrumruske, Co. Leitrim, bywhom he had four sons, the second andeldest surviving, Richard inheriting thetitle, July 10, 1683. - This escutcheon was hung in thechurch. The coots in this coat-of-ann>are in allusion to BeUomontfl familyname. 142 ANNALS OF KINGS CHAPEL. many enemies by his resolute efforts to enforce the Acts of Par-liament, and to reclaim the illegal grants by which Governor
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RELLOMONT. Fletcher had impoverished the province ; 2 while he was the firstactual friend of the people and sympathizer with honest demo- 1 See the interesting sketch of his life the publishers of the Memorial History in F. De Peysters Address before the of Boston, from this source.N. Y. Historical Society, Nov. 18, 1879. 2 Three fourths of the land in the prov- The portrait is taken, by the kindness of ince had been granted to eleven persons. HE Ill I Kell TAKES ROOT. 43 cratic tonus of government who administered the affairs of N< uYork under the English crown, and incurred the enmity of those who had favored the judicial murder of Leisler and Mil-burne by his indignation at the wrong and endeavors to right their memory. He was unfortunate in his connection with Wil-liam Kidd, who had been fitted out by himself and a few friendswith a vessel to catch pirates, but could not resist the temptationto become one; and though the governor apprehended and senthim to England for punishmen

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