The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time to the Norman conquest, and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities / by William Dugdale ...

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Title: The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time to the Norman conquest, and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities / by William Dugdale ...
Author: Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.
Publication: London :: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman ...,; 1675-1676.
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Lee Earl of Litchfield.

[26 Car. 2.]

THough the most men, on whom high de∣grees of Honor have been conferred▪ did partake of their Sovereigns grace and favour therein, in respect of some s••ecial services, by them formerly perform'd to their Prince and Country: yet have there been some advanced to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Titles and Dignities, as an encouragement to them in all virtuous endea∣vours: amongst which Sir Edward-Henry Lee of Ditchley, in com. Oxon. Baron••t, may be ac∣counted one. Who being a person of an am∣ple fortune, and fair hopes, was, by Letters-patent, bearing date at UUestminster, upon the fifth day of Iune, in the Twenty sixth year of His Majesties Reign, advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm, by the Title of Baron of Spellesbury, in the County of Oxford. As also to the dignity of Vicount Quarendon, and Earl of Litchfei••d.