Historical Collections Relating to Chiswick (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Historical Collections Relating to ChiswickBarbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleaveland, buried Oct. The Duchess was buried in the church, her funeral being attended by the Dukes of Ormond and Hamilton, the Earls of Essex, Grant ham, and Lifi'ord, and Lord Berkeley, of Stratton.111 She was daughter of William Viscount Grandison, and wife of Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemain, a well-known beauty in the Court of Charles II., and one of his most distinguished favourites. In the year 1670 he created her Duchess of Cleveland, with limitation to her son, Charles Fitzroy, and his heirs male the title became extinct in 1773. The Duke of Cleveland's name appears among the inhabitants of Chiswick in 1723.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.