 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1769 - 320 pages
...eleven years and upwards, one of the privy-council in England. In armour. Lord Chichefter, in his youth, robbed one of queen Elizabeth's purveyors, who were but little better than robbers themfelves. He foon after, to avoid a profecution, fled into France, where he fignalized himfelf as... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - 800 pages
...and upwards, one of the privy council in England ; in armour ; rare. Lord Chichester, in his youth, robbed one of Queen Elizabeth's purveyors, who were but little better than robbers themselves. He soon after, to avoid a prosecution, fled into France, where he signalized himself as a soldier,... | |
 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 580 pages
...and upwards, one of the privy council in England; in armour ; rare. Lord Chichester, in his youth, robbed one of Queen Elizabeth's purveyors, who were but little better than robbers themselves. He soon after, to avoid a prosecution, fled into France, where he signalized himself as a soldier,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1887 - 482 pages
...most unusuul age in those times. According to a tradition preserved by Grainger (fiioff. Hist. i. 395) he fled to Ireland, having ' robbed one of Queen Elizabeth's...entirely derived from an account of his life written bySir Faithful Fortesoue (printed for private circulation by Lord Clermont), who derived his information... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1908 - 1410 pages
...matriculating on 15 March 1583. According to a tradition preserved by Grainger (liioy. Hist. i. 395) he fled to Ireland, having ' robbed one of Queen Elizabeth's purveyors, who were but little better i than robbers themselves.' If the lad retook what he held the purveyor to have unjustly seized, no... | |
 | Great Britain - 1922 - 1578 pages
...matriculating on 15 March 1583. According to a tradition preserved by Grainger (liiog. Hist. i. 395) he fled to Ireland, having ' robbed one of Queen Elizabeth's...Fortescue (printed for private circulation by Lord Clermont), who derived his information from his own father, who was a companion of Chichester in his... | |
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If the lad retook what he held the purveyor to have unjustly seized, no moral depravity is to be inferred from the action. Our knowledge of the remainder of Chichester's early career is almost' entirely derived from an account of his life written by Sir... 